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
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?
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. I always thought meditation sounded dumb. Like, really dumb. How on earth could sitting and focusing on your breathing do effing anything? I had… Continue reading Shameless Autobiography Part III: Meditation is Dumb
Instructions for living a life: Pay attention. Be astonished. Tell about it. -Mary Oliver On the opening page of the story of my life, I am dead. I drank myself to death. I ate myself to death. I died a million deaths before I died, in a hostile world that hated me as much as… Continue reading Theories of Change
