Tag: meditate

The five minute meditation

Each day contains twenty-four hours. That’s fourteen hundred and forty minutes! Don’t you think that any of us can find just five of those minutes to sit down and have some peace through meditation? I bring this up today, because…

Take your medicine

A Spoonful of sugar helps the medicine go down. ~ Mary Poppins For me, loving kindness is the spoonful of sugar that helps the medicine go down. And in my practice, often it may seem difficult to take my medicine.…

Take me across the water

One day a young Buddhist on his journey home, came to the banks of a wide river. Staring hopelessly at the great obstacle in front of him, he pondered for hours on just how to cross such a wide barrier.…

Talk to the animals

During a recent dhamma talk by Bhante Sujatha, he pointed out that our pets do not meditate. I think this was to illuminate that as human beings we have capabilities beyond those of the animal world. And while that may…

Meditation is no escape

I think that many of us, myself included, begin trying to meditate in the hopes of being well happy and peaceful. But when we start meditating, we often find that instead we feel sick, unhappy and agitated. That would not…