Dear Friends,

I'm in the middle of a whirlwind European tour here, and so this post will be shorter than others have been.

We had a wonderful evening event in Oslo last week, hosted by Peter Svenning, one of our certified Awakening Coaches. Great...

Here is a practice you can use right away, from my book "Leap Before You Look."

Every one or two months,
Take a day where you do absolutely nothing,
Just as you would do if you had the flu,
But do...

This is a practice from my latest book: Leap Before You Look. This practice is chosen from the section "Compassion Practices."

Whenever a judgment or evaluation
Arises within you,
Whether positive or negative,
Add the three words: "... just like...

Well, dear friends, I've blogged about a lot of topics on this site over the last months, ranging from spiritual awakening, to the state of the economy, to how to deal with depression, etc. But today there is really only one thing on...

It has become a cliché these days to hear sayings like "in this economic climate," or "in these difficult times." And of course it becomes a self-perpetuating prophecy. Are these statements the whole truth about today's economic climate? First, people selling gizmos of various kinds, people who run restaurants, and...

Whenever a group of people get together and become more honest with each other, one of the first thing to happen is that they realize how much we all want the same thing. It happens in marriage guidance counseling, we come to the recognition...

Last week I had dinner with a wonderful man named Peter Baumann. Peter is best known to the world as the keyboard player for the 1970s German group Tangerine Dream, and later founded the label Private Music. But in the last years,...

Here is a passage from my 2005 Bestseller, "The Translucent Revolution."

In 1990 Vaclav Havel, the playwright who became president of the Czech Republic in 1993, told a joint session of the U.S. Congress, "Without a global revolution in the sphere of human consciousness,...

It's been about eighteen years since my teacher H.W.L. Poonja asked me to teach awakening in the West. At the beginning, when I first returned to Seattle in 1992, very few people would have a direct experience of being spaciousness, of being presence. At...

Here is a passage from my 2005 bestseller, The Translucent Revolution.

To surrender to this demand, we must be willing to look at the "broken zones" of our personality with honesty and courage. In the last decades, several new approaches have evolved that address...

I've been greatly blessed in my life by being with with many great teachers. I was close for many years to H.W.L. Poonja (people called him Papaji), and it was he who initially asked me to be a teacher of awakening. I had some fantastic visits with Urgyen Tulku Rimpoche...

For many years now Chameli and I have enjoyed a special moment in our month, when an envelope arrives containing a single DVD. It generally contains a feature film, a documentary, and occasionally a few shorts, chosen not for their popularity or celebrity status, but for their ability to transform...

It often happens in life that you knew something could have gone better.

A job interview, a date, a public talk: you walk away down on yourself, convinced that you blew it.

And then sometimes it happens that things just flow. No effort, no preparation, no big deal,...

As we deepen our practice of relaxing, waiting, and not knowing, we start to experience our points of view as if they were a variety of costumes. We dress ourselves up for play, like a child putting on a cowboy hat or a nurse's...

Amidst so much talk about the economy collapsing, global warming and a myriad of other problems, we are having a wonderful summer and hope you are too. Over the weekend I went down to the Yuba River with my dear friend Brooks Cole....

Here is a passage from my 2005 Bestseller, The Translucent Revolution.

Looking Beyond Enlightenment

There is an important distinction to be made between translucence and traditional understandings of "enlightenment." Very few of the people I have talked to would seriously label themselves as "enlightened." At the...

Chameli and I just got back this week from the Transformational Leadership Council meeting, which this time was in Bermuda. We attend these meetings twice a year, they are usually in very exotic, beautiful places. It is a group put together by Jack Canfield a few years ago for writers,...

I have met the future of the Internet, and trust me, it's very, very cool.

The way that you recognize a particularly cool idea is that as soon as you hear it you wonder how you could ever have lived without it. Believe it or not, 15 years ago, nobody...

By now pretty much everybody has been affected in one way or another by the change in economic climate. Some people have been hit really hard, like Dave from Brighton, I described in the post below, who lost his job and was concerned that he wouldn't have the money to...

I've just come home from one of the kindest things I've done for my body in 52 years. Colors look much brighter and sharper than they have before, I can smell flowers and food distinctly, there's a gentle hunger in my belly that's no longer a sense of craving, but...