No matter who you are or where you are in life, you need tools for "living the good life", as the ancient Greek and Roman philosophers would have put it. First, I believe that you need to be grounded in a religion. And by "religion", I don't mean the form of fundamentalism that some of you may have in mind. I mean religion as a living Wisdom Tradition . The two Wisdom Traditions that have shaped me throughout most of my life are/were Zen and Eastern Christianity. Even once you are "grounded" in a Wisdom Tradition, you still need tools for your daily living. One of the best tools that I have found comes from the late (and great) Indian philosopher and professor of religion Eknath Easwaran. Easwaran is most noted for developing what he called "passage meditation" where you memorize an inspirational passage and then use it in meditation to go deep within. But it's not his passage meditation that I want to discuss in this post. It...
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