We take care of the future best by taking care of the present now.
The future that we want - this is it. This is the future of all the previous thoughts you've ever had about the future. You're in it. You're already in it. What is the purpose of all this living if it...
So, in meditation practice, the best way to get somewhere is to let go of trying to get anywhere at all.
One practical way to do this is to look at other people and ask yourself if you are really seeing them or just your thoughts about them.
Symptoms of illness and distress, plus your feelings about them, can be viewed as messengers coming to tell you something important about your body or about your mind. In the old days, if a king didn'...
It is the awareness that is of primary importance, no matter what the objects are that we are paying attention to.
When asked about his apparent lack of anger toward the Chinese by an incredulous reporter at the time he won the Nobel Peace Prize, the Dalai Lama replied something to the effect that: They have taken...
We are not meditating to make anything go away, any more than we are meditating to attain some special state or feeling. Whether we are basically healthy at the moment or have a terminal illness, none...
Voluntary simplicity means going fewer places in one day rather than more, seeing less so I can see more, doing less so I can do more, acquiring less so I can have more.
Simply put, mindfulness is moment-to-moment non-judgmental awareness.
Practice sharing the fullness of your being, your best self, your enthusiasm, your vitality, your spirit, your trust, your openness, above all, your presence. Share it with yourself, with your family,...
In some ways, it’s as if you died and the world continued on. If you did die, all your responsibilities and obligations would immediately evaporate. Their residue would somehow get worked out without...
Carl Jung put it this way: The attainment of wholeness requires one to stake one’s whole being. Nothing less will do; there can be no easier conditions, no substitutes, no compromises. With
We tend to be particularly unaware that we are thinking virtually all the time. The incessant stream of thoughts flowing through our minds leaves us very little respite for inner quiet. And we leave p...
The word discipline comes from disciple, someone who is in a position to learn.
Mindfulness is a way of befriending ourselves and our experience.
Meditation means cultivating a non-judging attitude toward what comes up in the mind, come what may.
Meditation is more rightly thought of as a Way than as a technique. It is a Way of being, a Way of living, a Way of listening, a Way of walking along the path of life and being in harmony with things...
Comes up with. This is the flavor of true intentionality and inner discipline. You do it simply
You might be tempted to avoid the messiness of daily living for the tranquility of stillness and peacefulness. This of course would be an attachment to stillness, and like any strong attachment, it le...