We watched and discussed a short video featuring Adyashanti, in which he considers what it would be like to respond to each moment instead of searching for one right answer. Adya says:
Something is always coming into existence and something is always falling out of existence. Because that's the...
After sitting and walking in silent meditation, we looked into the role of curiousity in mindfulness. In her article on Mindful.org, Patricia Rockman writes:
We don’t ask “why” when inquiring into our practice because mindfulness is something to be embodied, to be experienced rather than thoug...
In his book, The World Could Be Otherwise, Norman Fischer describes joyful effort, one of the great perfections of the Mahayna Buddhist path. The phrase can seem puzzling; we don't necessarily associate joy with work.
Fischer observes that we can cultivate another way of seeing who we are, like...
Many of us are drawn to meditation as a way to resolve something about our life. Maybe we're looking to be more peaceful, or less angry, or kinder, or a better partner in our relationships. Meditation practice does have much to offer, but it's worth asking: what exactly do we believe needs fixing?
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