Milarepa was a famous Tibetan meditation practitioner and Buddhist teacher who lived from 1052 to 1135. He said, “When you…
Anyone who has meditated knows that over and over again we turn the mind toward the sensations of the breathing,…
A lot of people find it easier to practice with guided meditations than when they "fly solo." And that's not…
I've been very aware recently of what a difference setting an intention can make to the quality of my meditation…
In my last post I said I'd been teaching meditations based on a Buddhist discourse called the Honeyball or Honeycake Sutta.…
Most of our suffering is self-inflicted. When we call to mind some resentment from the past, we often assume that…
One of the Buddha's key teachings — arguably the key teaching — is the four noble truths, which tell us…
When we're first learning to meditate, one of the things we have to get used to is that the mind…
We can experience different kinds of distracted thinking in meditation. There are obvious, compelling, and “in your face” thoughts in…
The problem with distractions is that they're compelling. They make us think that they're important. They draw us into their…