Sunday, 30 January 2022

#770 Relating to Pain Wisely

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     Most of the time now, when I'm awake & lying on my back, there's an electric-current-like pulsating sharp pain in some part...
Monday, 8 February 2021

#769 Being Right Here and Now

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“Listening to the sounds that are right here now. Open and receptive. Gently opening to the sensations and feelings in the body. Relaxing wi...
Thursday, 28 January 2021

#768 BASICS #3: What are We Actually Doing during Meditation?

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       The way our mind normally works by default, is as if we were drowning, desperately trying to grab anything nearby, to keep us from si...
Wednesday, 20 January 2021

#767 BASICS #2: The Heart of Mindfulness

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     “ Mindfulness can be thought of as moment-to-moment, nonjudgmental awareness, cultivated by paying attention in a specific way , that ...
Monday, 16 November 2020

#766 BASICS #1: Recognizing the Need for a Qualitative Shift

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       Welcome to a new series on my humble ideas of the basic principles or premises of learning to become more mindful.       It seems we ...
Thursday, 30 July 2020

#765 From Fear & Suffering - to - Love & Joy

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     “Wisdom is deep understanding and practical skill in the central issues of life, especially existential and spiritual issues.       Exi...
Monday, 13 July 2020

#764 Awareness and Suffering

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     “A psychiatrist told this story:       ‘I was interning at a hospital and working with a very depressed young man. Certainly drug the...