This morning, sitting at a sidewalk table outside of my neighborhood coffee shop, I decided to meditate on my Guru. I don’t just mean in the internal way that devotees of Gurus are always supposed to be doing, all day long, even while stuffing kale into their blenders or breathlessly telling their wives about yet […]

In the lengthy Adi Da excerpts I’ve included below, he talks about how spiritual aspirants throughout history have often deliberately chosen to live in constrained, enclosed circumstances – not unlike our quarantine situation! – to focus and magnify their spiritual practices. To eliminate distractions. To more intensely observe the “event” of their own being. Monks […]