At the moment lot of people are suffering more than usual. They are anxious, exhausted, and overwhelmed about the awful…
In the immediate aftermath of the US presidential election, most people I know were shocked. Since then they seem to be…
I remember one time, not long after I'd first learned to meditate, I was being guided through the lovingkindness (metta…
In one of my early experiences of lovingkindness meditation (metta bhavana), a teacher told me to look for feelings of…
The "first foundation" of mindfulness is the body, which involves being aware of the physical sensations of the body, the…
The weekend that my wife told me she wanted a divorce, she took our kids away so that she could…
In my last post I said I'd been teaching meditations based on a Buddhist discourse called the Honeyball or Honeycake Sutta.…
For the past month I've been recording a series of daily guided meditations, taking as my basis the teachings in…
Recently I've been feeling, on and off, kind of crappy. A lot of the time I'm fine, but then heavy,…
I'm sure that sometimes you feel crap. The other week I was feeling particularly crappy. I have an idea what…