To study enlightenment is to study the self. To study the self is to forget the self. To forget the self is to be one with all things. To be one with all things is timeless enlightenment. And this timeless enlightenment continues forever, it is a ceaseless process, absolutely perfect, and fully complete at every moment of its being, yet also unfolding endlessly …

–Ken Wilber, “Boomeritis.”

To see a short video of Ken lecturing on the subject of the meditation technique called Tonglen, visit his website, IntegralNaked.com. Tonglen is the practice of breathing in all the world’s suffering and misfortune, breathing out all the love and the good. It is one of the most simple and effective practices you can do.

IntegralNaked.com is chock full of marvelously quirky, spiritually informative audio interviews, available to you when you become a monthly subscriber. But this particular video, labeled “Instant Gratification–Non-Grasping Mind,” on the right side of the homepage, is free.

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