200% – An Instruction Manual for Living Fully

“If you want to give me something, give me your greed, your lusts, your weaknesses. That is what you really hold dear above all else. Give me everything that stands between you and God.” - Brahmananda Saraswati, Indian spiritual teacher

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Beyond thinking, when you give away thinking – there You are. Don’t think; be. Now you may say, “If I am that, why do I need a practice? Why do I need anything at all?” Because believing you are thought is such an ingrained habit (and a subtle one at that), having a practice, a tool to help let go and bring you back to the experience makes your com

Living a rich, meaningful life for me is living without regret – becoming Zero and experiencing the full Truth of life so that regret has no hold on this moment; at the same time doing all that I can to fully play my role in each and every moment, to make sure no seeds of regret are sown.

My teacher Maharishi Krishnananda once said that any one of us can experience all the wonders of the world – the wonders that sages have talked about for millennia: “It’s never a case of ‘Can you?’, but ‘Will you?’”

If you want to do something, fully give all your attention away. Take your attention away from the selfish graspings of the mind, all the “shoulds,” all the insisting, the living in the past and the future. Place it all on the still, silent presence that is beyond thought. There lies a field of quiet being, spacious … eternally patient.

In every interaction innocence is a great gift. Not assuming, not taking positions, just willing and wanting to interact and relate exactly to the person and not to your idea or agenda.

As my teacher Maharishi points out, it’s the difference between thinking about chocolate and actually eating chocolate.

Your birthright is to know that it isn’t life that brings you happiness, it is you that brings happiness to life.