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After the Course is Over

No matter how enthusiastic we are during an 8-week Mindfulness (MBSR) course, when it's over, most of us slide right back into the same...

"Who am I?" is an honest, deep, central question. A quick, snappy answer is problematic. Thinking about it long & deep, and concluding "I...

We slowly learn to accept paradox: Words can, and very often do get in the way. And yet, turning phrases, live words, help wear down...

How many times are we surprised & wonder: 'How could I possibly think that?'; 'What got into me to say that?'; or 'I cannot believe I...

To the extent that we live in our heads, in the "story of me" (or "story of my cult"), disconnected from direct moment-to-moment...

Of all that we notice in our lives, we relate to in one of two qualitatively different ways: fear or love. It's easy (instinctive?) to...

There are so MANY wise advices! They sound tantalizingly true: "Just this"; "Only have no preferences"; "All shall be well"; "Let go of...

Countless millions, all over the world, have derived profound benefits from meditation, for over three thousand years. In the US alone,...

Non-doing - action emerging from centeredness: Your left hand becomes injured. The right hand immediately covers the injured hand, washes...

The natural reaction of our conditioned mind on hearing a word such as "non-doing" is to rush in to judge it as unacceptable. I'm not...