Frequently asked

You’ll gain the knowledge to master your mind.

Mastering own mind will unleash your full potential, keep you free from irritation and help you remain radiant and vibrant.

By being your true self. You are not your mind; your mind is within you.

Commonly, people understand that being true self means that you don’t assume any role but are just as your personality and characteristics define you.

Here, being true self means being the one who recognizing that your mind is within you.

Also, ‘mastering’ here means that you are able to notice your thoughts and decide what to do with them. You can recognize that thoughts are not necessarily true, but they might still be very useful. However, mastering does not mean that you can control when and what kind of thoughts your mind produces.

It is very common for people to identify themselves with their mind and believe that they and their mind are the same thing.

However, this isn’t true. First, consider that you say ‘my finger.’ You are not your finger; it’s your finger. Then you say ‘my mind,’ which is the same thing. You are not your mind, it’s your mind.

Consider that you are a smartphone. The phone’s microphone is your ears, the camera is your eyes, the motherboard is your brain, the memory disk is your memory and the processor is your mind. Installed apps are the skills you have.

As you can see, the processor is not the smartphone; it is in the smartphone. When a photo is taken with the phone’s camera, the processor executes tasks needed to store the photo on the memory disk. But all the time, the processor is helping to execute tasks and processes within the smartphone.

If there is a virus in a smartphone, which is creating bad actions within the phone, these actions are like thoughts in your mind. These actions might use all the phone’s capacity, causing the processor to run wildly. This can be noticed if the phone is running slowly or not performing as well as it could. Then the phone isn’t using its full potential. The same is true if one’s mind is running more than needed; the person isn’t using their full potential.

Just imagine this: When a child is born, she doesn’t know any words or concepts. When she first opens her eyes and sees her mother’s face, she doesn’t recognize it as a face. She just sees something which we have named “a face.” Even further, in this situation, it is named “mom’s face” and even more specifically “tired but happy mom’s face” or “mom’s face is so happy because she has me!” and so on. But for the new born child, the face is simply as it is. She is herself.

To be yourself is to sense the situation as it is, using only your senses without any conceptual overlay by your mind.

It has many names, but non-duality is one commonly used. It means that you (see ‘How to be true self’ above) are not a separate entity (see ‘self’) from everything else and this everything is called consciousness.

Actually, it isn’t knowledge at all because there is nothing to know, just to experience situations only using your senses. So simple.

No. This is all about you and only you taking charge of your mind.

No. With willpower, you are still using your mind to master your mind. Then you use some of your capacity to resist and overcome negative thoughts.

This approach is about letting those negative thoughts come; they just come, but you don’t believe them. This leads to a situation where you don’t resist the situation and don’t keep your attention on those negative thoughts. Not paying attention leads to a situation where these negative thoughts, along with the drama they bring, vanish.

Try an experiment. Create a thought, for example, ‘this is a thought’. Now you have it. How long does it stay with you? Has it already gone? The substance of this unimportant thought is the same as any other thought, for example, ‘this is difficult, I will quit’, but the content differs. Then, when you believe ‘this is difficult, I will quit’ and keep your attention on it, it remains in you as an extra burden.

At the course, you experience your true self and will receive exercises to reinforce that experience. From that experience, you are able to handle situations as they are, without any extra burden from irritating thoughts. Then, any task you face in your work or free time, you are able to complete it with your full potential without any drama, leading to better results.

Also, by using that experience, you are able to free yourself from mental distress.

It is living life as it is right now. This is achieved when you use your senses and don’t let any thoughts created by your mind overlay the present moment.

If you have been under your mind’s mastery for years or decades, it becomes a strong habit, and your mind will take charge of the situation before you even notice it. Therefore, the reinforcing exercises provided are necessary.

For those of you who are pondering whether this is enlightenment, I really don’t know. But at least this bus is going in the right direction.

We call it the experience of ease.

People are different and therefore describe situations differently. I want to emphasize that you have experienced ease as a child. It is nothing new to you.

When I read the previous sentence, the following happens: my mind creates an image of this experience. This image was created by the thoughts my mind found in my brain with the words “experienced ease as a child.” This image isn’t real; it is a created concept. This, in turn, results in expectations about the experience.

If I compare that expectation created by my mind with the actual experience, I cannot do it. Why? Because that experience itself is without concepts and cannot be compared with a concept. It’s like comparing apples and oranges.

There is a saying: ‘Exceed customers’ expectations’. Well, at least I cannot do this on this planet in this case.

Let’s make another concept: this is a very simple experience you have already had many times when everything was well.

No grandiose adjectives; your mind is most likely disappointed by the experience, but you are very satisfied.

The triggering reason was my teacher’s invention of an exercise that helped his disciple. Before that, I had been disturbed for a long time by the complexity involved in teaching how to master one’s own mind.

I absorbed this complexity by reading books and discussing with others. Based on those readings and discussions, I had formed a concept of what I had to do and how long it would take for me to be able to take charge of my mind. I expected that I might see some progress after ten years of practice, along with plenty of books and retreats. I also assumed that my previous reading of dozens of self-development books over 15 years would somehow help me and possibly speed up the process.

However, after about six or seven years of practicing, I started to wonder if it was complicated at all. At that time, I also met my second teacher and after discussions with him, I realized that it isn’t complicated at all.

Therefore, the reason for the existence of this site is to help save years or even decades of time and plenty of money for people who are interested in taking charge of their minds by trying to keep it as simple as it really is.

On this site, practicing refers to learning how to be in charge of your mind. It is focusing to consciousness which can be described as focusing on the present situation.

This involves engaging in exercises where you practice recognizing that your mind is within you, which is your true self. From this state, you can recognize your thoughts and decide what to do with them. These exercises involve stopping, concentrating on the present action or state of being and letting thoughts go when they arise. The general term for these practices is meditation

There are various ways to engage in this practice. The format of sitting meditation is probably the most well-known method. The course Virkee provides introduces exercises that involve practicing in everyday life situations. These exercises teach you patterns necessary for practicing in daily situations, allowing you to create additional exercises that fit into your daily routine.

I cannot say which method is the best. Some teachers may have strong opinions about which method is superior or they might have opinion that there is only one way to practice.

Whichever exercise method you choose, the basic idea in any of them is to focus on the present situation using your senses only. When a thought comes into your mind, you notice it and let it go. By letting it go, you remain in the present situation with your senses, without thoughts taking you to the past, the future or any other concept.

The reason I offer practice in everyday situations is that I want to live in the present society and therefore need to practice in real situations.

I really understand that formal practice in a quiet place, like sitting meditation, and highly recommend it. At the beginning of the practice or if there are difficulties in being true self, sitting meditation is the best way to get start and it might even be inevitable. These methods allow you to minimize external stimuli that disrupt your ability to be true self and help you realize what to look after.

I must share a story I heard from my first teacher many years ago, which influenced the way I want to practice and the way Virkee provides:

There was a wise, highly honored spiritual master who had spent several decades in a monastery, devoted to meditation and quietude. People from all over the world came to learn from him how to live happily without letting daily problems make them sad. 

Word of his mastery had spread to the US and he received an invitation to come and share his expertise with people there. He accepted the invitation.

However, having spent multiple decades isolated in a monastery in the hills of India, he did not have a passport. He needed one and planned a trip to the nearest city to apply for it.

The city was a vastly different place from the monastery. It was noisy, crowded, hectic and many other people were also queuing for passports. The atmosphere was entirely different from what the master was accustomed to and he lost his composure in the queue, he get nuts. Unable to withstand it, he returned to the monastery without obtaining a passport and without going to the US. 

The world in the city was vastly different from the controlled conditions of the monastery and his mastery did not hold up there.

Most likely, the story isn’t true, but it carries a message.

When you first start practicing, you are able to maintain control over your mind in situations that are ‘easy’ for you. Then, in ‘hard situations’ your mind is most likely to take charge and only after some practicing are you able to regain control.

By ‘hard situations’ I mean situations that have been with you for a long time and involve significant feelings or are somehow important to your ‘self’.

The more you practice being yourself, the more you can be in charge.

Because practicing involves being true self, no one can do it for you. It takes some time, but if you invest that time, the gratification is huge and irreversible.

Because in this teaching, there’s only a simple message to deliver and nothing more. We try to keep that message as simple as possible and deliver it to you as it is. After the message is delivered, you need to practice based on the teaching of the message, but that is something only you can do.

We also like products with a ‘buy once, use forever’ nature. This is that kind of product and if you buy it and we don’t invent anything new, you’ll be a one-time customer for us.

Non-dualism is the basis of the solution provided here. In non-dualism, the term ‘experiencing consciousness’ is commonly used. I don’t get any image or concept from terms like ‘consciousness’ and maybe that is why the term is used in non-dualism. I don’t know if I am experiencing consciousness, but I know that the skill provided here brings ease to every action and state of being in life, because no extra burden created by thoughts are present. Therefore, it feels natural to use ‘experiencing ease’ here.

Another reason for using the word ‘ease’ is to avoid creating unrealistic expectations. When I started my practice, I expected to receive the most wonderful feeling and experience one can have in life. This was due to the superlative way it was described in books and videos about standing as your true self. Phrases like ‘bliss’ and ‘the most wonderful experience one can ever have’ were used. They are true, but for me and my friends, they created expectations that we would experience something completely new and better than anything else. I spent almost eight years chasing this best-feeling-in-a-lifetime before I fully understood what it is. For me, the word ‘ease’ describes it best.

But if you are taking our course, it doesn’t matter which adjective you use because in our course, you will experience what it is to be your true self and thus immediately realize what is meant by ‘bliss’ and ‘the most wonderful experience one can ever have’.

No.

By ‘ease,’ I mean that you are free from the extra burden created by your mind. Then, everything simply is as it is; there are no thoughts of things being ‘too difficult for me’, ‘disgusting’, ‘impossible’, ‘annoying’ etc. When you don’t have to use your capacity to handle these thoughts, the hard parts, like learning new skills, become easier for you. In fact, it isn’t even hard; it is just something you want or need to overcome.

In recent years, I have specialized in doing things others don’t want to do. They avoid these tasks because their minds tell them that they are difficult or uncool. However, these are tasks that need to be completed and doing them is always the same: they have a start and an end, and between them, there are just various steps and amounts of effort required. Just Do It, I Did It!

Of course, if you like.

No you won’t. You can think as much as you like. You just decide which thoughts you want to think and which you just want to let go.

Yes, and you can decide how you want to deal with them.

Sure, in some situations it might just come. However, you’ll find yourself swearing less because of the ease you experience.

It means that when you stay true to yourself, you feel true happiness. When you are your true self, you live life as it is right now, using only your senses.

Your senses take life as it is, without worries. Take hearing, for example: it hears the sound of the wind as it is, like a microphone. It is your mind that labels the wind, for example, as a storm.

When you can stay true to yourself, you can handle your worries as they are, without extra burden.

No, it isn’t. It is very good when used correctly. Think of it as a tool you use or a worker who serves you and others. The problem occurs when the mind is in a charge of you instead of you being in charge of it.

One major purpose of the mind is to protect you by distinguishing between danger and safety. However, the mind can be overprotective and easily sends threat signals in situations that aren’t actually dangerous, such as when you want to try something new. If you believe your mind in these situations, even though its intention is good, it controls you, leading to a situation where you’re not doing what you want.

Yes, physically but not mentally. You are sensing as you did before the course, but your mind isn’t able to add any extra pain to you.