In the process of setting up a meditation program at a certain biomedical research university on the upper east side of Manhattan, I was politely told, “Unfortunately I need to ask that you cancel your meditation class… since your stated usage violates the University Policy on Use of University Premises and Facilities…”, etc., etc. The funny thing is, just months ago, the same university spent money creating special canopied areas with benches designated for smoking. But no meditation allowed.
Archive for January, 2006
“There are a lot of such practices in different traditions—walking across hot coals, lying on beds of nails, etc. And it always appears on the outside to be some supernatural act that defies the laws of science. Maybe those are just acts of No Mind, which prevents everything, including the physical body, from going into a reactive process.”
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