It’s a Jungle In There! Coming into Healthy Relationship with Our Minds
Continuing with our focus on the Third Foundation of Mindfulness… Imagine ‘pleasant’ ‘unpleasant and ‘neutral’ as seeds scattered in the garden
Category: thoughts
Third Foundation of Mindfulness – Awareness of Mental Phenomena
Last week we discussed the Second Foundation of Mindfulness and in class we practiced noting whether a current experience was
Eightfold Path: Spacious Effort
Imagine a bird soaring in the sky, held aloft by the air currents. Spacious effort is like that. Out of
Noticing: Thoughts on the Beach
Walking on the ocean’s edge yesterday, I noticed huge clumps of kelp, all tangled like beached whales. This, I thought,
What keeps us from knowing our Buddha Nature?
Central to Buddhism is the understanding that there is no place to get to, that enlightenment is not some distant
Freedom from Struggle
We have been framing the conversation over the past weeks in terms of freedom. A sense of freedom is one
Freedom from ‘Our Story’ through Meditation
We talk about the lure of thoughts during meditation, but what about when we are not meditating: Don’t we have
Freedom from believing we are our thoughts
We have finished our exploration of creativity, having explored it from many different angles. Now I’d like to begin to
