MEDITATE, B*TCH: The Ancient Science of Mind in the Age of Distraction — Reclaim Your Focus with the Meditation Techniques of the Siddhas, the Buddha, and Bodhidharma

Robert S. Shumake
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A meditation book for beginners and for people who can't sit still: how to meditate when your mind won't stop.

There are ten thousand meditation books with beautiful covers and soft, gentle language—and most of them are sitting unread, because the people who need them most are too distracted to open them. Meditate, B*tch was written to cut through the noise, stop the scroll, and make you look up from your screen for one second. That one second is where everything begins.

This is not a gentle book. It does not coddle you. Written by bestselling author Shri Surya Nuranyana Swamikal, it names the crisis directly: your attention has been hijacked by an industry engineered to keep you stimulated, reactive, and burning out—and taking your mind back is on you. Then it hands you the oldest and most rigorous technology ever developed for doing exactly that.

Built around the sacred number 108—the rhythm of the cosmos—this book moves fast and hits hard, from the science of the distracted brain to the practices that have trained the sharpest minds for thousands of years.

Inside you will find:


The crisis, named—the hijacked mind, the medication epidemic, and the true cost of a life lived on the scroll

The proof—the billionaires, warriors, athletes, and elite performers who sit every day

The history—the Siddhas, the original scientists of consciousness; the Buddha, the great analyst of the mind; and Bodhidharma, the warrior who crossed the mountains

The architecture of attention and the Five Great Tools of meditation

The survival protocol—the non-negotiables, a daily structure, and how to defeat every obstacle that stands between you and stillness

A complete practical toolkit—the 108 Breaths practice, Bodhidharma wall-gazing, the Vipassana body scan, the Agastya Pranayama sequence, and a 30-Day Meditation Challenge with a guided journal

Meditation for every life—the entrepreneur, the athlete, the artist, the healer, the corporate boardroom, the military, relationships, aging, and raising children in a distracted age

No incense required. No robes. No excuses. 108 pages, and then you close the book, put down the phone, and sit.


OrishaUniversity.com and these books represent the restoration of what was taken from our people. The 256 Odu of Ifa are the original operating system of human consciousness. Oluwo Jolaoso Osainbola has done what many generations prayed would one day be done. My full endorsement and blessing from Ile-Ife, the source of all.

— Araba Agbaye, Ile-Ife, Nigeria. Àṣẹ.

A meditation book for beginners and for people who can't sit still: how to meditate when your mind won't stop. There are ten thousand meditation books with beautiful covers and soft, gentle language—and most of them are sitting unread, because the people who need them most are too distracted to o...

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Robert S. Shumake, publishing as Ajarn Shaman Shu, has lived two lives in one — the builder and the priest — and his books are where the two meet. In business, he rose from a Ford factory floor to lead a Black Enterprise-ranked private equity firm, where, as founding president and CEO of Inheritance Capital Group, he developed a real estate portfolio of nearly 3 million square feet valued at over $300 million. He served as honorary consul for Botswana and Tanzania, founded the Robert S. Shumake Scholarship Relays and the HBCU Challenge. Through his foundation he funded a clean-water well in rural Kenya serving more than 1,000 residents and 300 schoolchildren, and he founded the Commissary Grant initiative to fund commissary support for incarcerated people. Today he stands as founder of Inheritance Media Group, owner of more than 300 publications — the second-largest newspaper company in America by number of newspapers — built to bring healing, meditation, and a positive voice to media. He is a pioneer of AI media: his Living Archive restores America's forgotten newspapers with AI, his 300+ publications are produced by an AI-run newsroom, and his book The Original AI reads the 256 Odù of Ifá as the original intelligence system. In spirit, each tradition that initiated him gave him its name — Ajarn Shaman Shu — Buddhist Ajarn, monk and teacher in the Theravada and Vajrayana lines, Oluwo Jolaoso Osainbola in Ifá, Shri Surya Narayana Swamikal in the Tamil Siddha line, among the few Swamikals in the United States. He received his training sitting with some of the top gurus and shamans in the world. He is the Oluwo of Osain, high priest of Osain — one of the only living teachers initiated across Yorùbá, Buddhist, Hindu/Dravidian, and Kemetic traditions — and the founder of Soul Tribes International Ministries and of Buddha Digital Temple and its universities — Orisha University, Buddha University, and Shiva University — where he teaches meditation, breathwork, ancestral healing, and consciousness. A foremost expert in plant medicine, he authored Detroit's Proposal E — the 2021 ballot initiative, passed with 61 percent of the vote, that decriminalized entheogenic plants in Detroit — and wrote Shurooms, his work on sacred mushrooms and healing. Across both lives he is the author of more than 140 published books and 86+ DOI-registered academic publications, spanning Ifá and Òrìṣà spirituality, Buddhist practice, consciousness, wealth, and restored American history, including the 69-volume Living Archive Series restoring America's forgotten newspapers. His philosophy in business and in spirit is the same: the Double Bottom Line — make a profit, and make a difference. Robertshumake.biz
Robert S. Shumake, publishing as Ajarn Shaman Shu, has lived two lives in one — the builder and the priest — and his books are where the two meet. In business, he rose from a Ford factory floor to lead a Black Enterprise-ranked private equity firm, where, as founding president and CEO of Inherita...

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