Cognitive Science is identifying different ways we relate to “self” that are very useful for untangling a challenging moment. This relates beautifully to Phillip Moffit’s quote: A crucial skill from minimizing emotional chaos and sustaining clarity in your life is the ability to distinguish between your experience in your interpretation of your experience. Your experience … Continue reading How “Self” Gets Us Entangled..
This sharing explores how opening to our own resistance in a moment, even a seemingly innocuous moment such as dog training, can untangle a whole mess– or at least allow more space to befriend, or be friendly with, the mess…
Quote from Gil Fronsdal: Where in my life do I postpone kindness until non-wellbeing goes away— and what shifts when I practice wellbeing that includes non-wellbeing? A helpful way to practice this is to treat moments of non-well-being as worthy of care rather than as evidence of failure. When irritation, sorrow, fatigue, fear, or disappointment … Continue reading Sitting meditation- Not Postponing Kindness
In this reflection on Judson Brewer’s “gear 3”, we explore how useful an analogy of riding a wild horse is for understanding our own reactivity.
Continuing to explore Judson Brewer’s model– today’s sharing is a bit about “gear 2” and then a self-inquiry exercise. For the pdf of the exercise, click here.
Let go a little, get a little peace. Let go a lot, get a lot of peace. Let go completely, get complete peace. A. Chah Sounds good, but how do we really let go?
A beautiful old story from the Brothers Grimm called the Water of Life offers a powerful metaphor for life and practice.
This week’s podcast is a re-visit of the Story of the Buddha from 2021 in which we explore the myth story of the Buddha’s life and how it relates directly to understanding our own personal causes of suffering and the path to our healing.
What happens when we feel like we are being told that we “should” be compassionate even towards people we find the most challenging– whether someone in our personal life or in the world? If we misunderstand compassion as excusing harmful behavior, of course our “innards” will rebel! When we instead begin to feel into the … Continue reading Compassion Confusion
This is a second sharing on the importance of bringing a light playful attitude into our heart/mindfulness practice. As one researcher points out: “Play lies at the core of creativity and innovation and allows us to be free of the constraints of time and to experience a diminished consciousness of self. It allows us … Continue reading Play As A Thing of Beauty [Part 2]