Leland van den Daele

Tag: concentration

  • Consciousness

    Consciousness

    We did not create the complexity, wonder, and mystery of the world –and even were we to impact this world of perception, we merely inflect and modify, but do not fundamentally ordain its form. And this appears true whether the world is material, as objectively existent other, or idea, as a derivative of Mind. I…

  • My Adventures with Meditation

    My Adventures with Meditation

    My history of meditation is humorous since I have approached meditation with the same fast-food consciousness that Americans tend to approach all aspects of their lives from diet to human relations. The first time I meditated I was sixteen years old. I had just read Herman Hesse’s Siddhartha, and I picked-up some of the descriptions…