What You Don’t Get in Church It has nothing to do with the thoughts that bring results we want. Pulling...
I am a simple farmer in a remote part of Bhutan. I live in Bumthang Valley, right in the heart...
There are four basic stages to meditation practice—like the four movements in a beautiful symphony, they flow together in a...
The depth and multilayers of mindfulness transcend the notion of just being present. Anyone can pay attention in the present...
Co-dependency can play such a large part in most modern relationships. Couples settle down, get cozy and fulfill the assigned...
What it is about seeing a loving act on the part of one person, towards another, that moves us to...
She led me out of the dining hall, where 70 or so people sat, silently cooling down tea and rotating...
When I first started meditating, I was skeptical. Will this work? Will I be able to focus? Will I even...
Once, when I was young, I was helping run a summer camp with other young adults, and someone asked if...
America’s Constitution and potential for “Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness,” living in the “land of the free and...
All ideas are mind-made concepts All our thoughts and ideas about mindfulness are mind-made concepts and ideas that have nothing...
We’re both nothing and everything in the “here and now” Whatever you’re experiencing right now is neither right nor wrong,...
A “difficult” patient Recently, I had an encounter with a patient who wasn’t like me in several ways. He’d had...
In our weekly Mindful Dreams column, Aneta Baranek of the School of Metaphysics is offering free dream interpretations to The...
It’s all about noticing Mindfulness is noticing. When we “do” mindfulness, we’re trying to obtain something, to change something, to...
How often do we see things without actually taking in what is occurring in front of our eyes. Or, on...
Today, the vast majority of people on this planet have no concept of conscious awareness or mindfulness. Many of those...
The following has been excerpted from Looking at Mindfulness: Twenty-Five Paintings to Change the Way You Live, in which psychiatrist...
The Mindful Acceptance of Beliefs I think, therefore I am. But who am I? What am I? I am whatever...
Acceptance of “the way it is” Human suffering is human. Awareness is just aware of it all, without thought. Awareness...
Your dream is simple and yet very profound. It's my belief that this is a visitation dream. An actual visit of your mother’s soul within your dream. The emanating light and
The Marching Band Where is my marching band? I thought there would be a marching band for me. One day,...
Two universal truths: There is no time outside of this moment, and there is nothing that exists outside of awareness....
I dreamed that I had a key to a house I owned. I seemed to have not been previously aware of this ownership but the house was cold and old and run down and owning it didn't immediately seem like a benefit or an asset.
