This post is part of our 100-Day Meditation Challenge. This week one of my students described how she tends to…
Last night I sat without a timer, or rather using a stick of incense to time my sit. Recently I…
For Day 45 of Wildmind's 100 Day Meditation Challenge I wanted to post something I wrote in response to one…
Have you ever had the experience that you've been experiencing distractedness in meditation, and you return from a distraction only…
When you’re young, the territory of the psyche is like a vast estate, with rolling hills, forests and plains, swamps…
There is no controlling life. Try corralling a lightning bolt, containing a tornado. Dam a stream and it will create…
There’s a profound and miraculous mystery right under our noses: this instant of now has no duration at all, yet…
Sometimes in my meditation practice, time and space have vanished. There are passages in the early Buddhist tradition that encourage…
Joe, a student in my online class, was worried that meditation would hurt his career. He works in a very…
Metaphors can be traps. We can end up taking them too literally. The point of a metaphor is to help…