Amidst practice rituals... Photograph by Richard Corman - www.richardcorman.com He'd seen me doing this for years and eventually felt compelled to capture it, to take part in it with me somehow... NYC, Washington Heights, Hudson River Park August 2006 All meditations are to become centered, not to be eccentric, to come to your own center. Listen to your inner voice, feel it, and move with that feeling. By and by, you can laugh at others' opinions, or you can be simply indifferent. And once you become centered you become a powerful being; then nobody can prod you, then nobody can push you anywhere - simply, nobody dares. You are such a power, centered in yourself, that anyone who comes with an opinion simply forgets his opinion near you; anybody who comes to push you somewhere simply forgets that he had come to push you. Rather, just coming near you he starts feeling overpowered by you. That's how even a single man can become so powerful that the whole society, the whole history, cannot push him a single inch. Not that he is stubborn, no, he is simply centered in his own being - and he knows what is good for him, and he knows what is blissful for him. It has already happened; now he cannot be allured towards new goals, no salesmanship can allure him to any other goal. He has found his home. He can listen to you patiently but you cannot move him. He is centered. - Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh