Spiritual Teachings

Whether someone admits it or not doesn’t matter, I think everyone wants to be touched — physically, emotionally, and spiritually. Everyone wants to be loved. To be heard. To feel special. People want to be swept off their feet — erotically...

Letting go. How the f**k is one supposed to let go? So many times over the last few months I’ve heard “Mark, you must let go! You’ll get everything you desire (!) if you’ll just let go!”. “But I’m not good at letting go” I reply....

The following are simple, yet powerful practices that can give you new ways of looking at your life circumstances, and in that, create new possibilities for making choices that will bring you greater alignment with your personal integrity. These...

That day in the Bay I hadn’t bumped into anyone I knew. It was busy and bustling with the faces of strangers, no one said hello....

The Dharma life, that of following our instinct for freedom requires involvement in everything. Every emotion, every mind state, every expression of being is valuable, important to know and learn from....

The "near-death experience" that U.G. Krishnamurti had during a lecture in Madras in 1953 was to lead him up to the "final death" and awakening into the Natural State in 1967. It seems, the near-death experience is, almost as a rule, a necessary...

About 2000 years ago Jesus spent 40 days in the desert; remember the story? I want you to imagine that you are Jesus and you are in the desert. What are you doing in the desert? What you are doing is facing your own creation, facing what you are,...

Imagine that you are standing under a waterfall. The water pounds down on your head and shoulders and pins your feet to the ground. The steady rush of water feels good. At times, it feels...

In 2002 Mira (who had recently changed her name to Ganga) came to the Byron area where she is known as the long-time devotee and wife of H.W.L. Poonjaji, also known as Papaji. We talked about meditation and satsang in an interview attended by 10 or...

Bodhidharma was born fourteen centuries ago as a son of a king in the south of India. There was a big empire, the empire of Pallavas. He was the third son of his father, but seeing, he renounced the kingdom. He was not against the world, but he was...