Mindfulness Meditation (For Everyday Life)

my job?" as you are fixing a car, walking to work, doing the dishes, listening to your daughter sing on a starlit spring evening ...

would a happy solution look like? Questioning, questioning, continually questioning. Inquiry is not so much thinking about answe ...

"mine," and then to operate in the world from that limited perspective which is mostly fantasy and defense. Hardly a moment pass ...

When you inquire in this way as deeply as you can follow the thread into who you are or what you are, you are almost sure to fin ...

for feeling important. We are likely to continually seek interior stability through outside rewards, through material possession ...

matter what. You are who you already are. But who you are is not your name, your age, your childhood, your beliefs, your fears. ...

that? Ask yourself, "Who am I?" or, "What is this 'I' that is claiming ownership?" Awareness itself can help balance out the Sel ...

dream world of our self-oriented thinking to look and feel only too real. Anger The look of utter despair and silent pleading fo ...

I am caught up in an eddy of self-righteous indignation. My 'I" does not want to be kept waiting, to be taken advantage of. I re ...

Cat-Food Lessons I hate finding caked cat dishes in the kitchen sink along with ours. I'm not sure why this pushes my buttons so ...

anger, "my" hurt, because I know "I" am right. Cat food shouldn't be in the sink! But when it is, the Selfing on my part can get ...

thwarted in my wishes, that makes me mad much more than the cat food itself. So, I discover, it's not really the cat food by its ...

them slowly cook, reminding yourself that you don't have to do anything with them right away, that they will become more cooked, ...

were designed so that the participants could devote each day from early morning to late at night solely to mindful sitting and w ...

returning to the monastic life as an old man. The prospect of giving up these retreats, or at least cutting back on them a lot, ...

greatest letting go and letting be I had ever been challenged with. For one, babies invite and require attending to constantly. ...

painful ones. Through it all, the principle of looking at it as a meditation retreat and honoring the children and the family si ...

in creative and challenging situations almost all the time, and at the same time, faced with a lot of repetitive tasks which you ...

warts and pimples, your shortcomings, your inconsistencies, and your failures. These trials are not impediments to either parent ...

It is obvious that, with all that energy going outward, there has to be some source of energy coming in which nurtures and revit ...