Wildmind's meditation blog
Wildmind's blogs are where you'll find book reviews, commentary, podcasts, and articles that don't fit neatly into the more structured guides to meditation that you'll find on the main part of the site. Articles are arranged below by date, and you can also browse by author and category using the links on the left.
The benefits of mindful sitting
The Sophian: Mindfulness in America is a rapidly growing phenomenon currently gaining momentum in the form of the awareness meditation movement. While meditation is often taught as a practice distinct from the Buddhist religion, the practice was adapted from and continues to be informed by Buddhist principles.
“Mindfulness is part of the eightfold path for those who would be noble … taught by the Buddha in his first public teaching at Sarnath,” Jay Garfield, a professor of Buddhist studies said. “Mindfulness … Click to read more »
Opening to insight
Fundamentally, we don’t know anything about anything. How then can we even begin to cultivate insight into how things really are? Author, practitioner, and Dharma teacher Kamalashila suggests how we can learn to open up to reality.
It is late summer and 10:22 in the morning.
I am in my room in Birmingham. Just a few yards away, framed in the open window, are the upper branches of a luxuriant copper beech, its leaves … Click to read more »
Meditation zeitgeist, October 31, 2008
A not-entirely-random selection of blog posts on meditation.
Intentional chocolate
Making the mind behave
Driving meditation
Mindful mama essay contest
Metta for your job interview
Meditation zeitgeist, June 6, 2008
A not-entirely-random selection of blog posts on meditation.
Course Notes: Meditation on Calm Abiding
Meditation: Wake up to new choices