Mindfulness Meditation (For Everyday Life)

If you go to a museum and carefully observe the Buddhist paintings and statues, you will quickly notice that in the hundreds of ...

To me, sitting this way embodies receptivity, an openness to what is above, to the energy of the heavens (the Chinese say: "As a ...

Then, in the midst of your anger, as an experiment, if the person you are angry at is present, try opening your fists and placin ...

attachment to everything he was engaged in, including his very life. It allowed him to choose the attitude he would take in that ...

touching another person without automaticity, with no gaining idea, just presence and caring. Coming Out of Meditation The momen ...

In your meditation practice, especially when you are not using a tape for guidance, see if you can detect the very first impulse ...

some of the deeper wrinkles of our habitual unconsciousness. Curiously, just as much if not more mindless behavior can creep int ...

now. If you're daydreaming, even slightly, when the clacker goes off, the sound will startle you and thereby point out how littl ...

TRY: Bringing awareness to how you end your meditations. Whether they are lying down, sitting, standing, or walking, zero in on ...

practice time at home every day. Forty-five minutes seemed long enough to settle into stillness and sustained attending from mom ...

at another time even for that same person. Perceptions of "long" and "short" are at best relative. The single mother of small ch ...

little to do with clock time. Five minutes of formal practice can be as profound or more so than forty-five minutes. The sinceri ...

(We only do that with our own patients, or with people who are ready to make such an intense lifestyle change for reasons of the ...

obstacles were too great A journey of a thousand miles really does begin with a single step. When we commit to taking that step ...

or yourself for even brief periods? If you put the welcome mat out for them and investigate their qualities and let them be, you ...

with each step, and how out of this unfolding momentary potential, the foot ultimately commits to one way, executes with full we ...

foot always unfolds out of the uniqueness of the present moment. It's no different in meditation. There is really and truly no o ...

in this moment just as you would trust your foot to find a way to keep you balanced as you move over rocks? If you practice this ...

discoursing, judging, condemning, or doubting; simply observing, embracing, opening, letting be, accepting. Right now. Only this ...

The people of Maine are known for saying, "You can't get there from here," when asked for directions. In terms of life direction ...