Archive

We've curated two collections below which we especially recommend if you're a newcomer or first-time blog visitor: "Passage Meditation Posts" and "Eight-Point Program Posts". If you scroll down, you'll also see complete lists of all our blog posts. Happy reading!

Stories from the Community

• The New BMCM Website: BMCM.org
• Slowing Down – Very Slowly
• "We Teach By What We Are": Working with Children and the Eight Points
• A Place of Healing
• Passage Meditation: A Family Practice
• Audio Excerpts from "Passage Meditation"
• Slowing Down in a Busy Workplace
• Spending Time With My Spiritual Teacher
• Healing with the Mantram
• Excerpts from the "Passage Meditation" Audiobook
• Video Interview: YA Thoughts on the Book "Passage Meditation"
• Prana Wells, Leaks, and Channels
• New Edition of "Passage Meditation": Q&A with Press and Editorial
• Creating a Personal Retreat
• Magic and the Eight-Point Program
• The Mantram as a Tool for Transformation
• A Week in Tomales: Before, During, and After
• Building Unity Through Sharing the Eight-Point Program
• The Path to Detachment
• The Power of the Mantram
• Conquest of Mind: Beginning a Spiritual Journey
• Sharing Passage Meditation
• A Work in Progress
• Finding Easwaran & Establishing a Practice
• Eight-Point Grandparenting
• Announcing the Blue Mountain Blog
• Threading Together a Community with the Mantram
• 2015 In Review
• New Website: Easwaran & Children
• The Memorization Challenge
• You are a Force for Peace
• Images of the November YA Retreat
• Sharing Meditation with a Partner
• A Special Request: Help Us Re-Imagine the BMCM Website
• Staying Slowed Down in the Work Place
• Hanging On To Balance
• Building the Will: the Good, the Bad, and the Ugly
• Furiously Mantraming
• Using Meditation to Create a More Meaningful Work Life
• Images of the 2015 YA Cohort Program
• "Deepening Meditation" & "The Goal of Life"
• How Passage Meditation is Helping My Personal Relationships
• Choosing Passage for All Eight Points
• Practicing the Eight Points Into Your Setu Years
• Can we be on holiday all the time?
• Eight-Point Parenting
• Passage Meditation in a Christian Context
• On YA Stats
• 2 Years Later: How Does Community Help You?
• A Tale of Two Experiments
• Little Successes
• February YA Highlights
• BMCM Webinars: Meditation in a Digital Age
• Working Towards an Ideal: Experiments in Vegetarianism
• The Power of Satsang
• 2015 Two-Part Introductory Webinar Series
• All About Books
• A Thought for the Week
• Images of the November YA Retreat
• Timeless Wisdom Blog
• Experiments, Results, Conclusions: Starting a Meditation Practice
• Satsang Roundup
• The Cohort Experience
• The YA Phone Satsang
• My First Weeklong Retreat
• Ready for a Webinar?
• Maintaining a Regular Practice as an International YA
• Images of the YA Cohort Program
• Shaping Your Life
• Meeting Easwaran as a YA - 50 Years Ago
• The BFF Book Club
• One Year Anniversary
• Finding Transformation Through Passages
• The New BMCM Journal: What's the Point of Slowing Down?
• From Reading to Living: Exploring My Spiritual Heritage
• Coming Home: Rediscovering Easwaran and Passage Meditation
• Finding Purpose in Work
• YA Blog: Archived!
• Images of the February YA Retreat
• A Source of Inspiration: Spiritual Reading
• Webinar: Behind the Scenes
• Meeting Easwaran Online
• A Happy YA New Year
• Images of the November YA Retreat
• What's Your Routine?
• The Passage Portfolio: One Couple's Creative Solution to Managing Their Passages
• YA Book Recommendations
• Training the Senses – YA Style
• Relating Body and Mind: A Dialogue with Death
• One of the Many Reasons I Attend YA Weekend Retreats
• Technology and Passage Meditation
• Back to School: Education for Living
• The Art of Slowing Down
• Images of the YA Summer Internship Adventure
• The Mantram and the City
• A Week's Worth of Successes
• Meditating on Campus
• Practicing Passage Meditation Within a Faith Tradition
• Meditation in Life's Transitions: From YA to Parent
• Applying Passages to Difficult Situations
• Talking with Your Friends About Meditation
• Tips for Meditating on the Road
• It Takes Work but It's Worth It
• Finding Meaning in the Routine
• Changing the World by Changing Myself
• A Day in the Life of a Passage Meditator

Stories from Eknath Easwaran

• Three Articles from Easwaran: Love, Death, & Building the Will
• Eknath Easwaran: Patience & Beauty
• Eknath Easwaran: The Power of Ordinary People
• Easwaran on Harmony
• Easwaran: The Bhagavad Gita for Daily Living
• Eknath Easwaran: Forgiving Others, Forgiving Ourselves
• New Edition of "Passage Meditation": Excerpts from the Q&A Section with Easwaran
• Easwaran on the Prayer of Saint Francis
• Eknath Easwaran: Choose Kindness
• Eknath Easwaran: The Transformation of Anger
• Eknath Easwaran: All of Us Are One
• Eknath Easwaran: An Uncluttered Mind
• Eknath Easwaran: Finding Unity in Conflict
• Easwaran: Thomas a Kempis Talk 2
• Eknath Easwaran: Simple is Beautiful
• Easwaran: Good Will, Good Health
• Eknath Easwaran: Invitation to a Journey
• Easwaran: Thomas a Kempis Talk 1
• Eknath Easwaran on the Will
• Eknath Easwaran: Original Goodness
• Eknath Easwaran: A Light in the Darkness
• Easwaran on the Benefits of Meditation
• Easwaran: Excerpt from the "Mantram Handbook"
• Easwaran on One-Pointed Attention
• Easwaran Q&A On Training the Senses
• Eknath Easwaran: Training the Mind
• Easwaran: Answering the Need of the Times
• Easwaran on Gandhi
• Easwaran: Does Meditation Really Help the World?
• Easwaran: The Mantram
• Eknath Easwaran: Meditation
• Easwaran on Finding Harmony with Others – and Harmony within Oneself
• Eknath Easwaran: Deepening Determination
• Easwaran: Living in Harmony
• Easwaran Q&A: Training Attention
• Easwaran on Meditation & Right Occuation
• Easwaran: The Power of Passages
• Easwaran: Spiritual Education & Right Occupation
• Easwaran on the Bhagavad Gita
• Eknath Easwaran: The Goal of Life Part 2
• Easwaran: Q&A
• Eknath Easwaran: The Goal of Life
• Easwaran: The Lofty and the Practical
• Easwaran on the Katha Upanishad: The Razor's Edge
• Easwaran: Instructions in Passage Meditation
• Eknath Easwaran: The Katha Upanishad
• Eknath Easwaran: Life is a Trust
• Easwaran on the Katha Upanishad
• Easwaran's Journey Through the YA Years

Passages

• A Passage for February
• A Passage for January
• A Passage for December 
• A Passage for November
• A Passage for October
• A Passage for September
• A Passage for August
• A Passage for July
• A Passage for June
• A Passage for May
• A Passage for April
• A Passage for March
• A Passage for February
• A Passage for January
• A Passage for December
• A Passage for November
• A Passage for October
• A Passage for September
• A Passage for August
• A Passage for July
• A Passage for June
• A Passage for May
• A Passage for April
• A Passage for March
• A Passage for February
• Not-Quite-A-Passage for January
• A Passage for December
• A Passage for November
• A Passage for October
• A Passage for September
• A Passage for August
• A Passage for July