Everything is alive, like Allen Ginsberg’s Footnote to Howl. Everything’s holy, everything wholly, everything’s whole. Which is not to say that it’s perfect just as it is, and that there isn’t a job for you to do. [...]
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What the Buddha wants Long ago I imagined living and working at a retreat on unspoiled land, far from the city, yet accessible enough for people to come here for workshops. I imagined that the land itself would be like a teacher. I imagined becoming native to this place, intimate with the animals and [...] Mindfulness has become synonymous with Meditation, insight, the discipline of sustained awareness. It is your capacity to extend non-judgmental attention to the world around you, as well as internally, to your various responses to it. Given the distractions we encounter every day, the discipline of mindfulness, with or without formally sitting quietly in meditation, [...] A silent meditation retreat in California over the New Year holiday. We will use the healing process of vipassana, or insight meditation. It will integrate techniques that help you truly bring meditation practice into your everyday life. Beginners are welcome. Meditation is not something to isolate you from the world. It is something to [...] Video from Caitriona A Mind as Big as the Sky Meditation is not just about mind control. Focus and concentration are not just about controlling the mind. It’s better to consider controlling less, trusting more – like a trained dancer, an artist, a musician who can express themselves effortlessly. Meditation is the [...] If you do not have a destination, a goal, then how can you ever arrive there? At the same time, if you have a goal, but are fixated on arriving there, without really knowing where you are right now, you cannot fully know the steps you must take. To pursue your dreams and goals, AND to live fully in the present, THAT is key. [...] Video of Michele speaking about the experience of meditation. Waking to the dance of life and death. you are happy, joyful, and present to whatever you are doing; not distracted by what is or isn’t about to happen, and still on purpose, even if the purpose is no more significant than looking out of the window, or smiling at a stranger. [...] It may sound like a wild claim, but there are skills, which in the right hands can do in ten minutes what ten years of meditation may not accomplish. I was shocked when I first discovered it. Those skills don’t lessen the power of meditation, they enhance it. And you subsequent capacities are enhanced exponentially. [...] Here are 18 ways that meditation can help you. There’s more ! A lot more, actually. This list forms the basis of an upcoming class I will be doing. [...] |
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