Sitting Meditation- Compassion as a Salve
Jack Kornfield offers the observation that at the end of life, our questions become very simple– Did I live fully? Did I love well? Meditation becomes a opportunity to learn to live into these questions now.
Monthly Archives: September 2020
Salve of Compassion
We think sometimes of compassion as a quality that we “should” be accessing if we are “good.” There is a totally different way of understanding compassion instead as that quality of being that brings us sanity, strength, courage and even ease in the midst of difficult situations.
Opening to Practice in all Conditions
There is a radical freedom offered in practice when we learn to open in all conditions. From the book, “Thoreau’s Ecstatic Witness,” comes this account of Henry Thoreau from his sister, Sophia, in his last couple of months before dying of tuberculosis in his early forties: One friend, as if by way of consolation, said … Continue reading Opening to Practice in all Conditions
Sitting Meditation- Loving Awareness and No-Preference
It is very helpful to feel into how a true open mindfulness or loving awareness doesn’t discriminate or have preferences for what it is knowing in awareness. In this practice, we explore feeling into the relationship of loving awareness, preference and no-preference.
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Short Morning Practice–The Sanity of Goodwill
Join me for this short reflection and meditation on the usefulness of goodwill in challenging times.
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Short Noon Day Practice — Resting the Eyes
In this short meditation, we give time for our eyes to rest and relax into spacious awareness
Capacity of the Heart
Compassion arises naturally as the quivering of the heart in the face of pain, ours and another’s. True compassion is not limited by the separateness of pity, nor by the fear of being overwhelmed. When we come to rest in the great heart of compassion, we discover a capacity to bear witness to, suffer with, … Continue reading Capacity of the Heart
Sitting Meditation- Meditating with Intention
Compassion arises naturally as the quivering of the heart in the face of pain, ours and another’s. True compassion is not limited by the separateness of pity, nor by the fear of being overwhelmed. When we come to rest in the great heart of compassion, we discover a capacity to bear witness to, suffer with, … Continue reading Sitting Meditation- Meditating with Intention