Month: October 2014

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Read the Prologue and Chapter One of The Magician of Lhasa

PROLOGUE Tenzin Dorje (pronounced Ten-zin Door-jay) Zheng-po Monastery, Tibet March 1959 I am alone in the sacred stillness of the temple, lighting butter lamps at the Buddha’s feet, when I first realize that something is very wrong. “Tenzin Dorje!” Startled, I turn to glimpse the spare frame of my teacher, silhouetted briefly at the...

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Is meditation the same as hypnosis?

This question sometimes comes up at seminars and is one that interests me having trained as a hypnotherapist before I came to meditation. Since I was a boy I was fascinated by the way that hypnosis provides direct access to the subconscious mind. And so, some years ago while living in London, I learned a...