Avoidance, Comfort, or Reality Check?
What is your worldview, your philosophy of life? How do you relate to this most fundamental of all concerns? Whether we realize it or...
Worldview, Perception, & Behavior
“We don't see things as they are, we see them as we are.” Anais Nin “… whether one realizes it or not, everyone possesses a...
Open Awareness Meditation Basics
These supplemental suggestions are most useful after you've arrived at some stability in concentration meditation practice. INTENTION...
Over Thinking?
The untrained mind doggedly, compulsively returns to a few favourite themes. The up (adaptive) side: these "stories of me" serve to...
Practicing with Just This, Right Now
"... spiritual bypass refers to the unhealthy misuse of the spiritual life to avoid dealing with psychological difficulties. ... serves...
Just This? Now??
"The key activity of modern Western psychotherapy is to enhance the experience of the observing self, discriminating it from the contents...
Deeper than Thought
While most of us live almost entirely in a word-based thought-world, we're limited to experience only the symbols (words & images) that...
What Lies Beneath our Thick Armour?
It can take a long time, or perhaps some of us may never realize the extent to which we've hardened ourselves to the outside world. We...
Right Effort Feels Effortless
“Effortlessness means attention is placed on the object and stays there because there’s nothing trying to draw it away. Then, and only...
Discomfort, Drowsiness, & Frustration
“Until you have at least a moderate degree of stability, ‘mindfulness practice’ will consist mostly of mind-wandering, physical...
