Mindfulness Meditation (For Everyday Life)

reading for the hundredth time the dietary contents of the contents, or the amazing free offer from the company. This impulse do ...

his work to go off to one Walden Pond or another and sit under a tree for a few years, listening to the grass grow and the seaso ...

the world is a delicate balancing act. It is always in need of retiming, further inquiry, attention. But I find the notion of vo ...

Concentration Concentration is a cornerstone of mindfulness practice. Your mindfulness will only be as robust as the capacity of ...

and better at staying on the breath, or noticing even the earliest impulse to become distracted by something else, and either re ...

concentration, everything else falls away - including thoughts, feelings, the outside world. Samadhi is characterized by absorpt ...

unsatisfactory world. You might be tempted to avoid the messiness of daily living for the tranquility of stillness and peacefuln ...

one involving effort but non-doing, energy but no tangible "product." What is more, any superficial or romantic notions we might ...

Meditation practice is hardly romantic. The ways in which we need to grow are usually those we are the most supremely defended a ...

For example, suppose angry feelings come up at some point in your day. If you find yourself feeling angry and expressing it, you ...

it touches. If its energy can be transmuted to forcefulness and wisdom, without the smoke and fire of self-absorption or self-ri ...

Our vision has to do with our values, and with our personal blueprint for what is most important in life. It has to do with firs ...

going? Does this vision reflect my true values and intentions? Am I remembering to embody those values? Do I practice my intenti ...

time or another, you are practically forced to sit down and contemplate your life and question who you are and where the meaning ...

worth seeking the altar where our own fragmented and isolated being-strands can find each other and marry, bringing new levels o ...

with our own suppressed shadow energies, symbolized by a frog or perhaps by a hairy wild man who resides under the pond in the f ...

their necklaces of skulls and grotesque grimaces. Their terrible outward appearance is actually a disguise adopted by deities em ...

the tortuous labyrinthine depths and expanses of our own minds. The heat tempers, rearranging the very atoms of our psychic bein ...

warrior, or a sage. In times of great turmoil or darkness, use your breath as the string which will guide you through the labyri ...

the path of right understanding, the path of the wheel of truth (Dharma). Tao and Dharma also mean the way things are, the law t ...