
Why Now?

Edith Eger is a Hungarian-born psychologist and Holocaust survivor known for her work on trauma and resilience.
Background: Born in 1927 in Kossice, Hungary, she was deported to Auschwitz as a teenager during World War II. After surviving the Holocaust, she emigrated to America and became a licensed clinical psychologist.
Career and impact: Eger practiced psychotherapy for decades, focusing on trauma recovery for Holocaust survivors and others facing severe trauma. Her approach emphasizes personal responsibility, forgiveness, and finding meaning after suffering.
Pure Undisciplined Spontaneity is what meditation is….

In meditation there is no conclusion behind it. You are not doing anything in particular, you are simply being. It has no past to it, it is uncontaminated by the past. It has no future to it, it is pure of all future. It is what Lao Tzu has called wei-wu-wei, action through inaction. This is what Zen masters have been saying: “Sitting silently doing nothing, the spring comes and the grass grows by itself.” Remember, “by itself” – nothing is being done. You are not pulling the grass upward; the spring comes and the grass grows by itself. That state – when you allow life to go on its own way, when you don’t want to direct it, when you don’t want to give any control to it, when you are not manipulating, when you are not enforcing any discipline on it – that state of pure undisciplined spontaneity is what meditation is.
–Osho from The Heart Sutra: Becoming a Buddha through Meditation






