Mindfulness Meditation (For Everyday Life)

for the manufacturers. No mining, no steel for the steel workers. No food, no steel workers. No rain, no food. No sunlight, no r ...

into them, that everything we are in contact with connects us to the whole world in each moment, and that things and other peopl ...

been here all the time. We have climbed to a vantage-point from which we can more readily perceive wholeness, and can cradle the ...

one thing and that one thing is all things - plankton, a shimmering phosphorescence on the sea and spinning planets and the expa ...

something about the sincerity with which my friend made his comment, coupled with the incongruity of the person I thought I knew ...

The willingness to harm or hurt comes ultimately out of fear. Non-harming requires that you see your own fears and that you unde ...

(Mahatma Gandhi) ...

Karma I've heard Zen masters say that daily meditation practice could turn bad karma into good karma. I always chalked this up t ...

possible to change your karma. You can make new karma. But there is only one time that you ever have to do it in. Can you guess ...

always justified. The present moment is never a new beginning because we keep it from becoming one. How else to explain, for exa ...

Working in prisons, I get to see the results of "bad" karma up close, although it's hardly any different outside the prison wall ...

choices. They never knew choices were there. Once again, we encounter what Buddhists call "unawareness," or ignorance. It is ign ...

creating an entirely new and healthier karma. Herein lies the root of change, the turning point of a life lived. The very act of ...

Wholeness and Oneness When we are in touch with being whole, we feel at one with everything. When we feel at one with everything ...

When we perceive our intrinsic wholeness, there is truly no place to go and nothing to do. Thus, we are free to choose a path fo ...

Siddhartha listened. He was now listening intently, completely absorbed, quite empty, taking in everything. He felt that he had ...

What is needed is to learn afresh, to observe, and to discover for ourselves, the meaning of wholeness. David Bohm, Wholeness An ...

All faces resemble each other, yet how easily we see in each uniqueness, individuality, an identity. How deeply we value these d ...

The chicadee The chicadee Hops near to me. Thoreau The man pulling radishes pointed the way with a radish. Issa Old pond, frog j ...

What Is This? The spirit of inquiry is fundamental to living mindfully. Inquiry is not just a way to solve problems. It is a way ...