Meditation is not about the silence Most of us have heard of silent meditation, laughing meditation, insight and breathing meditation. But how many of you have ever heard of screaming meditation? Probably none of you, because I have just discovered…
Too bad that I can’t. Unfortunately, my Dad died about nine years ago. Yet today I have the strong desire to hear his voice. His warm tone of voice, silly sense of humor like mine, and to listen to him…
Meditation is hard, in the same way that exercise, eating healthy, studying, and forgiveness can be hard. All of which have such great and wholesome benefits to ourselves, but also require mindfulness and determination.
Escapism takes us from where to where exactly? Escapism: habitual diversion of the mind to purely imaginative activity or entertainment as an escape from reality or routine. How very easily each of us can perceive mediation as our little escape…
Right action can be the wrong way without skillfulness Right Action is a critical part of the Eightfold Path that the Buddha passed on to us. But often, the word “Right” can seem too finite and specific. And although the…