Delusion of Self-estrangement
The Dalai Lama, during a meeting with North American psychologists, was told that many Westerners seriously suffer from low self-esteem....
Not for Everyone
Countless millions, all over the world, have derived profound benefits from meditation, for over three thousand years. In the US alone,...
Right or Left?
A meditation teacher requires solid meditation experience upon which to base her instructions. She observes her student coming towards...
Meaninglessness & Desperation
“The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation.” Henry David Thoreau As people enter their late 60s and early 70s, I often see how...
Facilitating Environments
Skilled psychotherapists, meditation teachers AND meditators, make use of the same 'common factors': http://healthyhealers.blogspot.ca/20...
Trusting Meditation Practice
"Carbon dating has determined that some of the rock carvings of humans sitting in full lotus position in India and Tibet are more than...
Cultural Differences
"Differences in inclination and disposition" between today's Western meditators and those from the East, where meditation has flourished...
Humorous Wisdom
I meditate because: • evolution gave me a big brain, but it didn't come with an instruction manual. • life is too short and sitting slows...
Striving?
Our typical hurried impatience to wrap each project up, then quickly move on to the next, simply doesn't work in meditation. Meditation...
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...
