Tag: disturbing emotions

My Wife hates flies

This is the season where the flies are trying to get inside for warmth, and can be real pests. This morning they were biting my Wife and and I while we were meditating. I was mindful that these were living…

How good is my practice?

This has come into question recently, and due mostly to my own awareness of what feels like failure. And please understand that this is me questioning my practice, no one else. I have read and studied the dhamma so much,…

The future?

How can I be sure of anything? What will this day bring, what will the future hold? Have you ever gotten up in the morning and felt like it was really going to be a good day? Conversely, have you…

Drop the story

Every day, I not only listen to so many stories, but create many myself. And yet, Venerable Bhikkhuni Madika’s words still ring in my head from her Disturbing Emotions workshop. She said, “drop the story and put an end to…

Breathing made easy

So last nights meditation was Vipassana (Mindfulness) meditation. But first I would like to share some advice I read recently about breathing. And that is, if you are doing mindfulness meditation and start feeling overwhelmed with disturbing emotions, it’s quite…