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The standout problem in our society is the life-pressure under which we place ourselves... leading to the suffering of `uber-stress', stored tension, illness and disease. Have you ever watched how babies and small children are focused completely in the moment, and blissfully happy as they look around themselves in awe of their surroundings, they experience a purity of meditation - an openness of being that most people have long forgotten how to experience.

Didn't a very wise guru say, `unless you see as a little child, you will not enter the kingdom of heaven?

The trouble is, by the time we become adults, the debris of just living has tended to cover over our natural ability for such enthralled spontaneity.

Meditation is largely misunderstood in the Western World and surrounded by myth and unwarranted mysticism. Most people have preconceived thoughts about it, and there are many books on meditation, there are even books on how to speed up the process and learn to meditate in fifteen minutes, hurry up the pace and Meditate, really the opposite of what Meditation is trying to achieve.

Authentic Meditation is about living in the now, in his latest book Yogi Brahmasamhara teaches the reader in `Ways' of letting go the barriers of the `ordinary' to enable all who practise to unveil an awakened, naturally exhilarating engagement with life. This is a book that `teaches' true meditation comprehensively.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR:

Brahmasamhara Yogi Brahmasamhara (Brahm) is the Meditation Master at The Meditation Sanctuary which he established in an inner-city suburb in Sydney, Australia, in 2001. He has practised Authentic Meditation for more than 37 years. He initially spent five years studying Integral Yoga with Indian Yogi, Misra Bashayandeh, who himself had been a student of the internationally renowned philosopher and Yoga Guru, Sri Aurobindo at Pondicherry in India. He then refined his practice within the classic Soto-schu Zen tradition of meditation at the monastery of Japanese Zen monk, Suni Kaisan, on both a
visiting and full-time basis over three years.

Brahm was born in Griffith, NSW, Australia, to farming parents. At 16, he became a radio announcer before moving to Sydney to study theology. Meeting Bashayandeh gradually shifted his intended `spiritual path' away from formal religion to exploring and studying the `enthralling profundity' of meditation. Later, it was his Zen Master, Suni Kaisan, who sent him into the world `to experience life to prepare him' for teaching.

He did just that, working in various fields. He taught English Language and Literature at the University of New South Wales; produced some 30 documentaries on Australian artists; tasted the corporate world with a three-year stint in an international oil company and then established his own, award-winning graphic design company. He also spent much of his time competing around Australia as a motor racing driver - which he describes as `an extremely meditative activity'.

In the mid '90s, he dedicated his life to teaching meditation as his Teacher had foretold and, today, the Meditation Sanctuary attracts hundreds of students each year.

Awakening

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