A Turning Point: Learning to Breathe While I Listened
A father whose son has cystic fibrosis learns, standing in a dark hallway at night, that the breath he keeps holding is his own, and that listening itself can become a practice.
A father whose son has cystic fibrosis learns, standing in a dark hallway at night, that the breath he keeps holding is his own, and that listening itself can become a practice.
By the time Swami Satchidananda arrived in New York in 1966, he was no newcomer to the work of transformation. He had already spent more than a decade in Sri Lanka, where he transformed the lives of all who came within his orbit — opening Divine Life Society branches...
It all started in June 1968. I had just graduated from Columbia University with a degree in math and philosophy. But after all those years of studying Eastern and Western philosophy, much of it still felt theoretical. I wanted a real practice. Then I noticed an ad in...
The Beginning When Peter Petronio first encountered Swami Satchidananda in the summer of 1966, he was already a renowned spiritual master with students in India, Sri Lanka, Hong Kong, and Europe. It was Peter’s close friend, the artist Peter Max, who had met Swami...
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