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You who sit before me, as well as you who are participating in this program by correspondence all over the world, have decided not to be like that. You are learning how to be with yourself, how to be focused, with your faculties attentive to you and serving you. In our society this is almost a new concept; therefore you are quite unusual. You are addressing what is fundamental about you, which then will enhance the experience of your very Being, as well as the activities, the moments and experiences you are going through.

You are unusual in taking care of the fundamental and thereby enhancing the wholeness as well as the details of your life.


This evening we celebrate your completion of the Fundamental Meditation series. There is much interest in meditation now in our society. People recognize there is something amiss in our way of life; there is something unhealthy, dissatisfying, unfulfilling in the way we live. People may not know what meditation is, but there is an attraction to it, a fascination.

It is not a moment’s inspiration, and it is not something that happens accidentally. That is one way of describing meditation.

Think of an experience you had as a child, perhaps sitting under a tree on a sunny Sunday afternoon, not preoccupied with anything, not having to do anything, just lazily sitting and day-dreaming–which is really just being with yourself. Many people can remember experiences like that, and how wonderfully nurturing it felt, how deeply restful and rejuvenating. This is also what happens in meditation–you heal yourself from involvement with factors contrary to you that pull away your energy, as opposed to giving you energy. Meditation gives you energy. It opens your body, mind, emotions, feelings, intellect and intuition to a free flow of limitless energy again.