CHQ Mystic Heart

During Chautauqua's 2020 season (6/27-8/30) we will host free online meditation sessions led by great teachers from many traditions. More details to follow.

[CHQ Mystic Heart @CHQMysticHeart]

Except for my body, nothing I think of as “me,” ~ this personality, these memories, ideas, hopes, dreams, emotions, plans, thoughts, likes and dislikes~ none is substantial, just synapses in a brain.

#Meditation explores the spiritual reality on which this ephemera is erected.

[CHQ Mystic Heart @CHQMysticHeart]

Except for my body, nothing I think of as “me,” ~ this personality, these memories, ideas, hopes, dreams, emotions, plans, thoughts, likes and dislikes~ none is substantial, just synapses in a brain.

#Meditation explores the spiritual reality on which this ephemera is erected.

[CHQ Mystic Heart @CHQMysticHeart]

TRYING TO MEDITATE is futile. You’re either meditating or not and no “approach” to meditation can get you there (as if med. was somehow not right here).

The only useful hint anyone can offer: “Stop trying.”

(And I’ve been “teaching” #meditation since 1971.)

[CHQ Mystic Heart @CHQMysticHeart]

TRYING TO MEDITATE is futile. You’re either meditating or not and no “approach” to meditation can get you there (as if med. was somehow not right here).

The only useful hint anyone can offer: “Stop trying.”

(And I’ve been “teaching” #meditation since 1971.)

[CHQ Mystic Heart @CHQMysticHeart]

Contentment and gratitude while enjoying work and service.

[Moses Kagan @moseskagan]

Passive income from own assets exceeds (a nice level of) spending.

[CHQ Mystic Heart @CHQMysticHeart]

I’ve meditated 2 1/2 hours a day for a half century. In all that time, my practice has never achieved or accomplished a single thing.

#Meditation isn’t doing. It is simply being.

[Subagh Khalsa @SubaghKhalsa]

#Meditation cannot be taught or even described.

The most we do is prepare ourselves for meditation, approach it, point to it; but these things require a kind of effort and meditation itself must be absolutely effortless.

[BTW, meditation must also be absolutely purposeless.]

[CHQ Mystic Heart @CHQMysticHeart]

A simple but valuable gift I try to give myself each morning is to ask, “What do I most want to DO and how do I most want to BE this day?”

The only requirement is for me not to ask that until AFTER my morning meditation when the ego is quietest.

[CHQ Mystic Heart @CHQMysticHeart]

A simple but valuable gift I try to give myself each morning is to ask, “What do I most want to DO and how do I most want to BE this day?”

The only requirement is for me not to ask that until AFTER my morning meditation when the ego is quietest.

[Subagh Khalsa @SubaghKhalsa]

We humans are unique in our ability to be confused.

The cause: Imagination plus emotions.

The consequence: Bad decisions- personal, social, cultural, political, economic, environmental ...

The antidote: Quiet contemplation and meditation, peaceful discussion, kindly action.

[CHQ Mystic Heart @CHQMysticHeart]

Only a few can devote entire lives to spiritual practice. The rest must create a balance between the active~ family, job, service, recreation, learning, community~ and quietude.

Putting meditation time first can elevate everything else into its own kind of spiritual practice.

[CHQ Mystic Heart @CHQMysticHeart]

Only a few can devote entire lives to spiritual practice. The rest must create a balance between the active~ family, job, service, recreation, learning, community~ and quietude.

Putting meditation time first can elevate everything else into its own kind of spiritual practice.

[Subagh Khalsa @SubaghKhalsa]

Being engrossed in our everyday affairs blinds us. Sure, we need to take care of whatever needs our attention; but we also need to take a break.

How different our world might be if we all took time each day to remember our true selves and how connected we all are.

[CHQ Mystic Heart @CHQMysticHeart]

The most oft repeated lie: “What I want will be good for you.”

[CHQ Mystic Heart @CHQMysticHeart]

The most oft repeated lie: “What I want will be good for you.”

[CHQ Mystic Heart @CHQMysticHeart]

TRANQUILITY is a practice.

It is not some rare gift obtained by a lucky few but is always available to those who would choose to claim it for themselves.

[And your tranquility is a gift you can share with the world.]

[CHQ Mystic Heart @CHQMysticHeart]

TRANQUILITY is a practice.

It is not some rare gift obtained by a lucky few but is always available to those who would choose to claim it for themselves.

[And your tranquility is a gift you can share with the world.]

[Subagh Khalsa @SubaghKhalsa]

For better or worse, I’m a straight, white, able-bodied, well-educated, prosperous, native-born male.

Each of these is another layer of privilege, protection and power and each can blind me to the struggles of others.

My practice MUST include service and kindness.

[CHQ Mystic Heart @CHQMysticHeart]

No amount of effort will ever find any thing called “I” or “me.”

These concepts, to which we devote all our energy, disappear the instant we stop maintaining them mentally. They have no more substance than any other thought.

What remains is called many things but has no name.

[CHQ Mystic Heart @CHQMysticHeart]

No amount of effort will ever find any thing called “I” or “me.”

These concepts, to which we devote all our energy, disappear the instant we stop maintaining them mentally. They have no more substance than any other thought.

What remains is called many things but has no name.