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...
Post
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...