The Timeless Wisdom of Eknath Easwaran
"Call it not love that changeth" from Easwaran's Learning to Love "I once spoke to a group of high school girls at a luncheon in Minneapolis. After my talk I answered questions, and the girl who presided asked, 'You've used the word love many times. . . . more
Free Introductory Seminar on Passage Meditation: San Francisco, February 25 If you'd like to know more about Eknath Easwaran's method of passage meditation and you live in the San Francisco area, we're offering a short introductory seminar. It's free, led by experienced meditators, and you don't need to enroll in advance. . . . more
A Practice for Today: Spiritual Reading "The media drown us in such a low image of the human being that it is essential to remind ourselves constantly of something higher."
"Books chosen from the annals of mysticism should be read slowly and well. . . . more
The Great Transformer This excerpt from Eknath Easwaran appeared in the Winter 2008 issue of our quarterly Blue Mountain journal.
"In my college days in India I was on the debating team, and I enjoyed debating very much. . . . more
Thought for the Day
February 3
Time is what keeps the light from reaching us. There is no greater obstacle to God than time: and not only time but temporalities, not only temporal things but temporal affections, not only temporal affections but the very taint and smell of time.
– Meister Eckhart
We think that past and future are real because the mind keeps brooding over what we have done and what others have done to us, what we will do and what others will do to us. But it is not past and future that are real; it is our brooding on the past and the future that is real. If we could withdraw our attention from these ghosts, many of our problems would simply dissolve.
As our meditation deepens, we develop the ability to withdraw our attention more and more from the past and the future to focus it on the present. And as we begin to live more and more in the present, we make the exhilarating discovery that past and future exist only in our minds. It is a tremendous realization, for it means that we are released from any burden of guilt about the past and any anxiety about the future.
Every moment is unique and discrete. When our concentration is complete, we rest completely in the present. Then we do not live in time, we live in eternity.
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