present moment happiness
As we soak in the healing waters of the present moment, the chasms between sacred and mundane, bearable and unbearable, dissolve. We live in uncertain times. Putin’s …
As we soak in the healing waters of the present moment, the chasms between sacred and mundane, bearable and unbearable, dissolve. We live in uncertain times. Putin’s …
When we come home to who we are in our entirety, as we are here and now in the dynamic flow of impermanence, we discover we never …
The practice of present moment awareness shows us that whatever we are dealing with does not define us. Difficult stuff comes up, but it doesn’t diminish our well-being. …
Progress happens when you don’t think about it. I was struck by a poem the other day while reading a new translation of the Therigatha, a small book …
Do you have to meditate every day? The question really should be can I be happily present with things just as they are, rather than struggling with …
With the gradual deepening of your practice, you will feel a wonderful stillness in meditation when you simply rest your awareness on the body. The meditation teacher …
I think so, but the real question is how to develop patience with the meditation process itself. The only way to fail at meditation is to stop meditating. …
Although I try to not address too many political issues on this blog, for reasons I hope to make clear if you choose to read this post, …
Tears just flowed from my face when I heard Amanda Gorman, the first national youth poet laureate at only 22 years old, stride up to the microphone in …
Realize that for many our negativity bias is on steroids right now, and that’s OK. Notice the lovely things that happen in your day. Perhaps someone holds …
Just as our mindfulness meditation builds the capacity to unemotionally witness the unfolding imagery in our waking state, it also allows our dream-awareness to neutrally observe its own …
There is a lot of pressure on the whole New Year’s thing this year, right? I mean, the pandemic, economic turmoil; not to mention I am behind a …
Buddhism offers us a path to decolonize our own minds, thankfully. It not only teaches inclusion, it points out the shared insanity of separateness that causes so much …
As I write this, the outcome of the 2020 US presidential election is still up in the air. The major news outlets sense our anxiety. We wonder how …
The next tine you dive into another maelstrom… strap yourself with the rope of mindfulness onto the buoyant barrel of breath awareness. Oh, wait. I’m getting ahead of …
Despite all that is wrong, I can still take delight in a moment of well-being. News stories are not the conversation starters they used to be. In …
I feel that I should be above it all, but mostly I’m not. I struggle with my emotions. Meditation helps a lot, but sometimes I am just plain …
Just when I thought things couldn’t get more dreadful, they did. Yes, I know pandemics happen. Evolution hurts sometimes, I guess. Writing in the New York Times on …
The suffering in the world is overwhelming. But the whole mess looks differently when we have a rested, settled mind. Everyone is frazzled. Covid-19, politics, racial and …
With samadhi, our simple path of awareness reveals the wonderful secrets hidden in the depth of our being. Meditation has many wonders to reveal, but they remain …
In April of last year Doug McGill interviewed the Burmese meditation teacher Sayadaw U Tejaniya concerning how a meditator can practice mindfulness in the pandemic. His response …