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...
Preparing to See More Clearly
If we're honest, most of us find Zen masters', mystics' & saints' behaviors & writings incomprehensible, counter-cultural, unnatural...
What is Meditation?
We all have different ideas about what meditation is, even if we've practiced for decades. How we relate to meditation reflects the many...
Remembering, Coming Back Home
We often judge our life - in this moment - as flawed, wrong, less than ideal. Our buttons get pushed, and we tumble back into the old...
Mindfulness is Learned from the Inside
Mental health-care professionals and other counselors have a strong tendency to regard Mindfulness as a tool or technique they can...
Self-talk - a Love / Hate Relationship
We tend to inhabit a thought-world - 'the story of me'. Incessant self-talk is, we assume, our 'self' telling us who we are...
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...
Open Awareness Meditation Basics
These supplemental suggestions are most useful after you've arrived at some stability in concentration meditation practice. INTENTION...
