Durga Ma - Memoirs of a Mad Meditator

Over the years I have taught meditation in a number of different situations. I began by teaching people the meditation that I did, a meditation that is an uncommon, radical form of yoga meditation that isn't even recognized among most yogis. And here I was, an unmarried woman, and a westerner to boot, attempting to get across something unheard of to the Western world and wondering why they didn't fall in love with it as I had.

During most of those thirty-plus years, I lived as a hermit, meditating away like a mad woman, studying mystical texts from the original Sanskrit, giving shaktipat diksha and initiating people into my own kind of meditation. I looked on in amazement as initiates that I considered family left the nest and went in other directions. What did they want? I wondered. It's all here, and it's so simple. It's a no-brainer. It's impossible to fail, and it produces the very results they all said they wanted.

I realized at some point that the human mind really doesn't like simple. Being a complicated thing itself, it's more likely to put up with confusion and complexity. It was the sacred texts I was studying that put me on to this: they intentionally make things difficult to grasp. Smart guys. They knew the nature of the mind.

I wasn't interested in being some famous guru with thousands of disciples and devotees, so I persevered. Whoever comes who wants the meditation that I practice will either turn up or not, I reasoned. I'll just continue my own way, and write a few things about meditation in a general fashion so it can be useful to anyone no matter what they want, or what kind of meditation interests them. I'll get down to brass tacks.

I wrote my first book, Meditating Naturally, a book I hoped would not only dispel the illusion that there is nothing one needs to know about meditation in order to do it, or that meditation is so mysterious and difficult that “I couldn’t possibly ever meditate, I’d be a failure for sure!” (See what I mean about the mind? One way or another it will attempt to undermine anything that might possibly, remotely, maybe, undermine its domination.)

It was also my intention to present the truth about what meditation really is, how it works, how to do it successfully, and to get across the idea that no matter how easy or how difficult the mind expects it to be, meditation is natural to everyone, and anyone can do it and get results. That book was written simply, but it is filled with goodies one can only get at by reading between the lines (an acquiescence to the nature of the mind and a salutation to the sages who taught me).

Since that time, I have taught in churches, in my home, privately and publicly, and have learned a good deal about people who want to meditate. So I joined the cyber-world and created an online course in such a way that it goes from basics to the most esoteric (as esoteric as I can get online, anyway), from sooooo easy to somewhat challenging (if you stick around long enough).

There will be people who will go away after one “lesson” believing that they are above what is in this course (fooled them!) and people who will stay to the end (where they will discover something special). This material took over seventeen years to refine, but it is now online for anyone who wants the teachings of a mad meditator (a yogini in disguise). It will be interesting to see what happens.

Curious? Check it out at LearnEasyMeditation.com.

Namaste (I bow to the Divine One that you really are),
Durga Ma

Phoenix Metaphysical Institute

Ancient Wisdom for a Modern World