Mindfulness Meditation (For Everyday Life)

everything else in the meditation practice, we just watch, listen, note, let be, let go, and keep generating the question, "What ...

birth and death, a human life lived. No one escapes the adventure. We only work with it differently. Can we be in touch with our ...

presence. Their nature is elemental, rock. Rock-hard. Rock-solid. Mountains are the place of visions, where one can touch the pa ...

mountain is helpful but not at all necessary. It is the inner image which is the source of power here. Picture the most beautifu ...

your body the sense of uplift, the axial, elevated quality of the mountain deep in your own spine. Invite yourself to become a b ...

and ice. In any season, it may at times find itself enshrouded in clouds or fog, or pelted by freezing rain. The tourists who co ...

darkness and pain as well as savoring moments of joy and uplift. Even our appearance changes constantly, just like the mountain' ...

beings are far more interesting and complex than mountains. We are breathing, moving, dancing mountains. We can be simultaneousl ...

with this practice. Can you see some subtle transformation occurring in your attitude toward things that change in your life? Ca ...

or a rock with a hammer, in spite of its hardness, or actually because of it, the rock chips, fragments, breaks apart. But if yo ...

meditation, so that your energies are held by your awareness and by your openness and compassion for yourself in the same way as ...

undulations, even when the surface is whipped to frothing? In the same way, in your meditation practice and in your daily life, ...

the sun's hazy brush, - this the light dust-cloth, - which retains no breath that is breathed on it, but sends its own to float ...

agitation and anger they feel. But they can walk with it. In traditional monastic settings, periods of sitting meditation are in ...

sensations of walking - in your feet, in your legs, in your carriage and gait, as always, moment by moment, and in this case, st ...

hike, walking your dog, walking with children. It involves recalling that you are here in your body. You simply remind yourself ...

Ten minutes is good, or half an hour. Remember once again that it is not clock time we are concerned with here. But you will lea ...

When mind or body first signals that perhaps it is time to move on, stay with the standing a while longer, remembering that tree ...

Lying-Down Meditation Lying down is a wonderful way to meditate if you can manage not to fall asleep. And if you do fall asleep, ...

yourself that "you," whoever you are, are not just a resident of your head. You can also focus on different areas in either a fr ...