Reality - No Really!
Life feels radically different when we connect directly with the immediate present. This is so rare for most of us, that reading these...
Social Development & Smart Phones
Transcript of Sherry Turkle PhD interview by Anna Maria Tremonti, on CBC Radio, Nov 16, 2015 http://www.cbc.ca/radio/thecurrent/the-curre...
Striving?
Our typical hurried impatience to wrap each project up, then quickly move on to the next, simply doesn't work in meditation. Meditation...
Getting Through
Effective communication, especially today, is very challenging. We're bombarded by constant, overwhelming volume of mostly irrelevant &...
Aging with Wisdom & Joy
“… when I was still in my twenties. I had come to a small Buddhist temple on a busy San Francisco street to hear a lecture by Shunryu...
Common Factors
'Common factors', which include empathy, warmth, & acceptance, are clearly important in mental-health-related talk therapies. Common...
Acceptance, Investigation, Perseverance
"It is only when we begin to relax with ourselves as we are that meditation becomes a transformative process. The pith instruction is,...
What's it all about?
Our consumer culture is almost exclusively about materialism & self-centeredness. This contrasts sharply with deep, meaningful living...
Worthy of Our Precious Time & Energy?
David Foster Wallace paraphrased the Christian bible: "The truth will set you free. But not until it is finished with you." If we have a...
Readiness to "Get It"
A few days ago, I wrote about the importance of stillness during meditation practice. A wonderful summary: “until there is no movement to...
