One Year of Meditation Can Change Your Life
My simple, unguided, and experimental meditation practice for one year turned into a life-long gift to myself that I marvel at every day I’m alive. Everyone has changes in the first year…
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Meditation Cured My ADHD ADD – Attention Deficit Disorder
[Updated 16 April 2026] I had profound Attention Deficit Disorder in my teens and early adult life. Meditation changed that for me. It literally erased it in 2007 after a period of…
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The Cost of Confusion in Meditation is Often Measured in Years
Sadly, my guess is that this is true for most people who begin a meditation practice. The ideas are vague, the instructions are inconsistent, and much of what gets taught is repeated…
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Cranial Crackers – it just went live at the App Store
I have always been interested in tech. Though I can code simple things – html, css, and some Javascript, I just never felt like I had time to learn how to code…
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Turiya, Turiyatita, Brahman and Buddhist Enlightenment
I read an email from a woman this morning who said she was so happy to find my writings here at Jhana8 because she found the word Turiya as a Sanskrit word…
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The First Private 3-Day Deep Jhana Intensive Retreat
Wow. I’m sitting here on the morning following our first 3-day private Deep Jhana retreat here in Krabi Thailand and I have a really good feeling about it. I haven’t asked for…
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It Isn’t…
A lot of people come into meditation carrying a bag full of symbols, rituals, spiritual accessories, and outward behaviors that they believe matter. They may feel meaningful. Serious. Sacred. But they do…
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The Breath is NOT the Object of Meditation for Access Concentration Leading to Deep Jhana
Here’s a video covering the answer to probably my most often asked question by students and people who find Jhana8. Many people cannot seem to focus on the feeling of the breath….
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What Do I Think Enlightenment Is? (in 2026)
Is anyone ENLIGHTENED? No. In my view, I equate enlightenment with full-time states of Non-Dual Awareness. There is nobody in a persistent 100% state of Non-Dual Awareness, so nobody can be said…
