“There are a hundred thousand species of love, separately invented, each more ingenious than the last, and every one of them keeps making things.” – Richard Powers, The Overstory Our pets are so uncomplicated. We love them, and they love us. There might be naughty behavior sometimes, but they don’t disappoint us or betray us.… Continue reading Petting the Pet Meditation
Sam Harris has these great lessons on his app (highly recommended) that cover a range of ways you can be a happier and more mindful person. One of my favorites is, “Don’t Meditate Because It’s Good for You.” This lesson makes a lot of good points – that the science, for instance, asserting that meditation… Continue reading Serving the Silver Liger
This planet teems with life. It’s been changing everything from the atmosphere to rocks for 4 billion years. It’s everywhere. It’s in crevasses in the Antarctic to the bottom of the Marianas Trench to the clouds above – it’s absolutely in every nook and seemingly uninhabitable cranny. Where conditions are friendly, it’s absolutely run amuck… Continue reading Life – Everywhere, Life
This meditation is one of my favorites when people I disagree with drive me a little nuts. It fuels my sense of compassion and connection to realize that however powerful we might feel, we are fragile in the face of our need to do the most simple act: Without the breath, we are lost.
I mentioned that I go to support groups for some of my addictions and problems. Obviously the “Anonymous” franchise – Alcoholics Anonymous, Overeaters Anonymous, Al-Anon, Anonymity Anonymous, the list goes on – is the best-known network of support groups, and it’s a great one. There is much to appreciate about their approach (and some stuff… Continue reading A Group Can Sense Us
In which I indulge in shameless autobiography in an effort to suggest to those whose suffering comes from inside themselves that I used to suffer a lot, and now suffer less. “When the brain is diseased, the functions that become pathological are the person’s emotional life, thought processes, and behavior. And thus creates the addict’s… Continue reading Shameless Autobiography Part IV: Shamefully Addicted
I’ve posted some guided meditations. They are full of…ideas. Mindfulness as it’s been presented to me really isn’t about ideas so much as experiencing the mind when you’re trying to not have ideas. Based on my limited research, there are a lot of flavors of meditation and mindfulness, so I’ll try not to get too… Continue reading Is This Mindfulness?
