Reading Archive (Mindfulness)
Developing Mindsight
Oftentimes people hear the word mindfulness and think “religion,” but the reality is that focusing our attention in this way...
Lessening the Power of Negative Emotions
I profoundly believe that real spiritual change comes about not by merely praying or wishing that all negative aspects of our minds...
Presence: The Quality of Consciously Being Here
A common theme runs through all the great spiritual traditions. It goes by many names – awakening, recollection, mindfulness,...
Don't Side With Yourself
Through mindfulness, our hearts become spacious enough to hold the painful emotions, to feel the suffering of them, and to let them go....
Stay With The Breath
Put aside your old ways of using your eyes and ears and nose, tongue, body, and mind to focus on issues outside there in the world, to...
Inclining Toward Freedom, Even Through Imperfections
If we focus only on awakening, we miss most of the spiritual practice. I’m much more interested in how we practice with not...
Renaissance
This morning, at sunrise, a new bud appeared on the tree. It was born around midnight. The bark, the skin of the tree, split...
Wholeheartedness
The end -- in all of the monastic traditions, of both East and West -- consists in cultivating mindfulness, being mindful. And "mindful"...
The Grain of the Wood
There are two sides to the path of practice: the side of developing and the side of letting go. And it's important that you see the...
Natural Unfolding
I believe that spiritual practice unfolds most smoothly when we find how to accord ourselves with nature. A useful metaphor for this is...
On Meditation
"During meditation, various feelings and thoughts may arise. If you don't practice mindfulness of breath, these thoughts will soon...
The Blooming of the Offering Within You
A poem is a flower you offer to people. A compassionate look, a smile, an act filled with loving-kindness is also a flower that blooms on...
The Attention That Arises From Caring
Bare mindfulness, or attention from moment to moment, is a good technique as far as it goes, but I don’t feel it’s enough, unless you,...
Wherever You Go, There You Are
Mindfulness is considered the heart of meditation but its essence is universal and of deep practical benefit to all. In essence,...