Towards Deep Authenticity
Almost all of us are preoccupied by anxious, fearful, compulsively 'driven' thinking, speaking & other actions, arising from self-esteem...
Safety, Ease, Freedom, Authenticity
Does meditation practice feel very different from “real life” – working, home life & holidays? When - if ever - do we feel completely...
Truth, Love, Patience, Perseverance
Truth, like love and sleep, resents Approaches that are too intense. W.H. Auden What is critical is that we - at our own...
Manifestations of Boundaries
Boundaries are artificial divisions we create, usually early in life, as a primitive defense against trauma. It's the best we can do to...
Fear Itself
“The only thing we have to fear is fear itself” Franklin D. Roosevelt Fear hides our courage to discover & embrace, with an open...
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...
Whose Thinking, Speech & Actions?
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...
Finding Our Way Home
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...
Authenticity
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...
Non-doing
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...
