playfulness

Let your distractions be your teachers

Once, many years ago, I was meditating—or at least I was supposed to be—and I found myself wondering what the…

October 31, 2015

A cure for earworms in meditation

Earworms are those tunes that get stuck in your head. Sometimes you'll be meditating and have a favorite song stuck…

October 15, 2014

The breathing as an adventure of discovery

One of my Skype workshop participants recently wrote with a request for advice, which (slightly edited) was as follows: I…

October 18, 2011

G.K. Chesterton: “The true object of all human life is play.”

The bodhisattva moves through life elegantly, "in the zone" and in a state of playful "flow," and he can do…

July 27, 2009

Playing our way through life

Many people think of play as a fringe benefit of life. Work comes first. Play is an “extra” that we…

July 22, 2009