Featured guided audio
Come Home with NASA, Now
NASA is a short guided audio practice that helps you rest in this moment, spacious and softly alert. You can listen to it or download it for free. I am also sharing the series on my BeZenDo Substack.
Stillness
Stillness
Meditation and related techniques from Namaste Now!
I called this page Stillness many years ago, because that word still describes the kind of meditation I find most valuable, the kind that slowly quiets the constant chatter of thought. When my mind settles, I notice that I become calm without trying, and it gets much easier to let the small upsets of the day pass me by, which David Pollay calls the Law of the Garbage Truck. Over the years I have shared a number of tips here, and you will find them gathered below. I have also begun creating guided audio practices, and the first one is ready for you whenever you would like to sit with it.
From the archive
Earlier tips
The Stillness tips I shared from 2009 to 2011, in the order they first appeared.
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Stillness teachings
What Is True Meditation?
Meditation is the dissolution of thoughts in Eternal awareness or Pure consciousness without objectification, knowing without thinking, merging finitude in…
Read teaching →Thinking is Injurious to Mental Health
I had this picture on the desk for a while. It was drawn to look like a cigarette, with the orange filter and a little smoke at the end, and a warning in…
Read teaching →How To Achieve No-Mind (aka Meditation)
Zero resistance + zero desire = Meditation. no mind Our minds can only be still, i.e. entertain no thoughts when we’re not seeking or resisting anything.…
Read teaching →From the Stillness archive
More on meditation & stillness
A curated handful of the 282 posts in the Stillness category. Browse all Stillness posts →
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The Ultimate Meditation…
Where, is what happening, now, and to whom? here, now Just sit. Quietly. Breathe gently. Eyes can be open or closed. Where are you? Find yourself, here. What’s happening? Inside…
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Here’s A Simple and Effective Meditation…
Keep quiet. Don’t think. Don’t move. Papaji simple meditation Keep quiet, decide to not talk for some time. Don’t think, simply decide to calm down and still all thoughts. It’ll…
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Why Meditate?
Meditation brings wisdom; lack of meditation leaves ignorance. – Lord Buddha meditate? The way forward is via peace and meditation greatly enhances the practice of peace and…
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How To Control Our Monkey Mind
Like the undeveloped mind, the metaphorical monkey is always in motion, jumping from one attempt at self-satisfaction to another, from one thought to another. – Mark Epstein the…
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How To Stay Mindful…
Today I will live in the moment, unless the moment is unpleasant, in which case I will eat a cookie! – Cookie Monster mindful Staying mindful is desirable but not easy! Read the…
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Why Quiet The Mind?
The memory of God comes to the quiet mind. – A Course in Miracles (ACIM) a still mind As we become still and quiet our mind we increasingly connect to the divine wellspring inside…
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Why Be Present?
The greatest gift you can give (yourself or anyone else) is just being present. – Rasheed Ogunlaru present? Are we present where we are? Have we arrived fully here? If not, where…
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How To Be Still…
I go among trees and sit still. All my stirring becomes quiet around me like circles on water. – Wendell Berry stillness It is the way to our center. Our center is where Now, our…
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Why Be Quiet?
The quieter you become the more you can hear. – Ram Dass it’s all good True silence can do wonders. True silence is that of the mind not that of the audible kind. As we become…
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The Secret To Meditation!
The secret to meditation is to sit for 10 minutes and imagine you have all the time in the world. Do not be in a hurry! Just relax the body and the mind. – Namaste Now! meditation…
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How To Meditate…
Meditation is not a way of making your mind quiet. It’s a way of entering into the quiet that’s already there—buried under the 50,000 thoughts the average person thinks every day.…
More guided practices are on their way, and I will add each one to this page as soon as it is ready.