Meditation Archives - Page 2 of 11 - The Monk Dude

0 Just read another clever post about how not to put other people off both meditation and your personal company by Dan Harris, author of 10% Happier and a familiar face to anyone who used to watch ABC news or Good Morning America. In his book he describes, with considerable humor and eloquence, his meditation journey…

2 I expect that you’ve been lying awake at and night wondering, what is Monkotopia? It’s really quite simple. You’ve heard of utopia — a perfect world where everything seems designed to please You. Hence ‘You’ topia. It makes ‘You’ happy to live in this kind of world. Dystopia is the opposite. It’s when everything seems designed…

0 Mantra chanting, or kiirtan (aka kirtan) is a beautiful way to create the mood for meditation, either alone or in a group. This mantra, Baba Nam Kevalam, means ‘only the feeling of limitless love’. The tune was written by a friend of mine from the Netherlands, Didi Ananda Advaeta.