Sometimes (and sometimes a lot!) on the spiritual path, we experience times when we struggle with our meditation practice. This is not new to most of us who have been […]

(Note: this is a summary of Jamuna’s talk at Sunday Service on February 28, 2010.) In today’s readings we hear that Jesus scolded the Pharisees for their complaint that His […]

We have inherited a medieval mindset when we unthinkingly relegate “God” to some distant universe of indifference or even some unfathomably vast distance from our own daily life and concerns. […]

“The law was given by Moses, but truth and grace came by Jesus Christ.” This quotation from the gospel of St. John, Chapter 1, is not a critique of Moses. […]

Swami Kriyananda’s study course Material Success through Yoga Principles has been a major focus of my teaching for the past two years here at Ananda Seattle. 2010 is the third […]

Stillness cannot be achieved by simply doing nothing because movement is deeply embedded into our body cells and into our subconsciousness. Stillness lies at the center of all movement. It […]

Dear Friends, Padma and I wanted to share a bit more in depth about our experience at Ananda in Italy where we went for the inaugural initiation of nayaswamis and […]

Dear Friends, Padma and I are honored and humbled to travel to Italy a week before Thanksgiving to participate in the first initiation ceremony as nayaswamis in a new, worldwide […]

A challenge for anyone who meditates, whether new to the practice or a long time meditator, is how to quiet the active mind! The “monkey mind” is a big contender […]

The journey to find the missing link in my life began with a strong desire for something I KNEW was out there, somewhere.  I didn’t even know what it was, […]