Mindfulness-meditation instruction, counselors, spiritual teachers, retreats, education
Mindfulness-meditation instructor, counselor, spiritual teacher and founder of the Blue Mountain Lotus Society.
03/31/2026
What is the True Self? Dearest Sensei: Can you please describe the True Self? This is Bob. Hi Bob -What most people mistake as their selves is the outer shell, the Ego Self. It is created out of physical and social conditioning and is experienced as separate from our True Self. And while I’ve written about this in sever...
03/08/2026
Do you believe in the Law of Attraction? Dear Sensei Tony: What do you think of what people call“the law of attraction”?This is Paul. Hi Paul. What an interesting query. My personal understanding is that everything in nature obeys certain laws of action and reaction, that in an interdependent reality, all things are connected. Now, I a...
02/21/2026
Do you believe in sacrifice? Hi Andrew. That’s a deep question. My immediate answer is no, but this is an important and complex topic. Some scholars have said that the practice of sacrifice reflects some sort of primal blood lust or instinctive death drive, but I believe that evolutionary psychology reveals that the origin of...
01/29/2026
How Humor Helped Heal the Pain of the Holocaust - United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Jewish comedian Robert Clary, who was imprisoned in the Buchenwald concentration camp and later acted in the 1960s sitcom Hogan’s Heroes, says that making