Mindfulness Meditation (For Everyday Life)

attached to anything because everything you set out to do, even if you arranged it very carefully, was always getting interrupte ...

hanging from my body. In playing around on the floor, we would spontaneously discover new yoga postures for two bodies, things t ...

straighten me out and wake me up again if my own mindfulness is not up to the task at that moment. Parenting and family life can ...

silence sometimes. Listen more carefully to them. Read their body language. Assess their self-esteem by watching how they carry ...

to satisfy our own needs, we are, I believe, in deep trouble. Like it or not, children are and will always be their own beings; ...

path but yours. As they grow, they may also detect the hypocrisy of it, as well as any distance between what is being professed ...

occasions are when your children are experiencing pain or fear or are having a hard time letting go into sleep. Without being ov ...

Some Pitfalls Along the Path If you follow the life-long path of mindfulness practice, the biggest potential obstacle at points ...

Some Pitfalls Along the Path 261 purity of direct experience. This reminder keeps the practice alive for us at the very moments ...

"Who is supposed to get somewhere?"; "Why are some mind states less valid to observe and accept as being present than others?"; ...

Is Mindfulness Spiritual? If you look up the word "spirit" in the dictionary, you will find that it comes from the Latin, spirar ...

sharpening and deepening of my own meditation practice. This is not to deny that meditation can be thought of fundamentally as a ...

ideology or belief system. I usually think I know what they mean; but I also know that they are trying to put words to an inward ...

feeling" he experienced contemplating the underlying order of the physical universe. The great geneticist Barbara McClintock, wh ...

Moreover, our ideas of spirituality frequently ring with a slightly holier-than-thou resonance to the attuned ear. Narrow, liter ...

coming full circle, back to the ordinary and the everyday, what they call "being free and easy in the marketplace." This means b ...

The soul feeling is rooted in multiplicity rather than oneness, grounded in complexity and ambiguity, eachness and Suchness. Sou ...

ways of the world, no longer a passive and naive agent. The fully developed human being embodies the unity of soul and spirit, u ...

us can do is simply to look through our own eyes, see with eyes of wholeness, and act with integrity and kindness. ... their eye ...