Andrew Cohen & Lama Surya Das on Nothingness (Video)
by Bergen VermetteIn this video, Andrew Cohen and Lama Surya Das weigh in on the significance of Nothing. According to Cohen, the discovery of Nothing shows us that we “are not who we think we have been.”
“If we have the spiritual maturity and the courage, once we begin to cognize, and are able to cognize that which cannot be understood by the rational mind, that which is our deepest Nature, we begin to let go of all relative notions of self. It doesn’t mean that we completely disregard them, because relatively speaking all these different relative dimensions of self are still real, but we’re no longer identified with them in the same way we were before. Continue reading…
It’s been just over a week now since I returned to the States after participating in EnlightenNext’s first “
On Monday night, EnlightenNext founder 
This past Sunday I, along with the other editors of EnlightenNext magazine, spent most of the day in silent meditation. Setting aside a full day for meditation practice is something we do weekly here at the EnlightenNext headquarters (which doubles as a spiritual community) and it’s a ritual that I’ve found to be an absolute necessity in all of the creative work that we do producing the magazine during the week. There’s something endlessly fascinating about the fact that spending so much time doing absolutely nothing mysteriously leads to a greater freedom, ability to handle complex situations, and spontaneous creative capacity when I get up from the cushion. The quote below is from EnlightenNext founder and spiritual teacher 
