Advanced Meditation--What's in it for me????

There are a lot of students currently taking asana classes with me, but i would have to say that not many of them have a regular meditation practice. Even advanced students.....they find meditation unglamorous. What would happen if you sat and watched your breath on a regular basis????? It would change your life and they way you view reality......you would realize that things that you see come from you and you alone. All blame rests squarely in your lap for the good and the bad.

When you start to advance your meditation practice, the focus of your mind is strengthened much like it is when you workout. You know that the first time you workout benefits are already starting to happen even though you can't see them yet. When you are new to meditation, counting the breath for 5 breaths is difficult... but results are starting to happen. If you advance to 5 unbroken minutes, your concentration has become so much greater than the average person. The average person's mind is very distracted....it's hit by thousands and thousands of mental images in a five minute period of time. It's a miracle that we can form a complete thought!!! If you can advance your meditation practice to 15 undistracted minutes, your consciousness begins to shift....the point that you are focusing on becomes big like a screen in front of your eyes. This is an amazing moment for you because now you are open to experiencing freedom.....freedom from the anger, fear, and frustration which is a baseline to most lives. Now you want to meditate.
However, meditation takes discipline and people need a little bit more of a carrot than just freedom. They want to earn money, have a perfect relationship, be radiantly healthy and really, really thin.

What are the karmic causes for these things????? Actually His Holiness The Dalai Lama is speaking about this subject tomorrow in NYC..... The karmic cause for having wealth is being generous. The karmic cause for having a perfect relationship is to respect other people's relationships and taking your vows and the vows of others seriously. The karmic cause for having radient health and being thin is to protect the life and health of others. Most people would think just the opposite--to horde money and ideas, to hit on other peoples partners, or to be self absorbed , vain and somewhat of a hypochondriac. Karma has to do with causes not effects, those are all responses to effects. Hospitals can only respond to effects--do you see--nurses and doctors actually contribute to this cyclical illness stuff.

You have to get in at the root of the effect that you want....you plant the seeds for this stuff in meditation. When you sit in uninterrupted concetration, you are actually painting the picture of your life. This is a high tantric practice.......to see ultimate reality by stilling the mind.


Yes , it is true that we create our lives all of the time. The problem is that your mind is not strong enough....the focusing. Things you want come into your awareness along with other things that confuse and distract you. You don't have a clue because the mind is getting hit with so much information all of the time. When unaware, you go with something easy.....
when aware, you accept only what you want.


I can say that i've been working on these things for at least four years or so.....about as long as i've known Gesche Michael and about as long as I decided that i was sick of living under life's thumb. I was sick of the pain of not having enough money, duplicitous relationships, and tired and injured everyday in my career. It took a while......because now i'm starting to see the effects that i want.....if I can do it, you can do it too. I'm only an ordinary person.