Our topic was a Thich Nhat Hahn article titled, When Light Shines, Darkness Becomes the Light, on Awakin.org. It begins:
From time to time you may become restless, and the restlessness will not go away. At such times, just sit quietly, follow your breathing, smile a half-smile, and shine your...
Our topic this week, after meditation, is inspired by a Joanna Macy essay titled The Greening the Self. It is taken from Ordinary Magic, a collection edited by John Wellwood. Macy writes:
Something important is happening in our world that you are not going to read about in the newspapers. I...
We followed our sitting and walking meditation with a Sharon Salzberg audio interview. In it, she discusses the movie Dan in Real Life and how it inspirted her to write the book, Real Love. Salzberg says:
...That was a moment when I was practicing, and I realized that up until a certain ti...
The topic for our first Tuesday after the summer break was a Ten Percent Happier blog post titled Enjoy the View - Not the Commentary. In it, psychologist Arnie Kozak looked at how our internal storytelling takes over or masks our experience. For example:
Our lives are almost always accompanie...