I have never run a marathon, but I have helped others who were running them. I’ve driven the car to meet a runner at numerous rest stops during the Boston Ma...

Last year didn’t look like this. In 2019 friends could sit together around a table and laugh, share stories, and dance the night away. There were dinner part...

Solitude is not loneliness, and each one of us is experiencing either one or the other during these days of quarantine. To be alone is to either be separate ...

Sustaining your attention on the breathing really develops awareness but when you get lost in thought or restlessness, that's all right too. Don't drive your...

Often, when we are confronted by some problem which arises again and again, we think we have somehow been fooling ourselves about any kind of awakening at al...

The human heart is the crucible of the cosmos. When you realize this, a shift in consciousness occurs. You begin to see that inner life is not necessarily pr...

There is no need to judge ourselves for being resistant; rather, we should just recognize the self-pity or fear or apathy, see these states, and remember tha...

Awareness: you don't create it, you recognize it....It's like this--the mood is like this, the body is like this, the breath is like this. And the more you r...

The person we want most to love us is ourself. But when we attempt to bring love to ourself, ..., we discover that we sometimes think we don't deserve it. .....

The heart of skillful meditation is the ability to let go and begin again, over and over again. Even if you have to do that thousands of times during a sessi...

In spite of your concerted effort to keep the mind on your breathing, the mind will likely wander away. It may go to past experiences and suddenly you find y...

You can observe whatever you are conscious of, through the eye, ear, nose, tongue, body, and mind. All the things you are conscious of are conditions - high-...

In our meditation, we learn from both successes and failures. People fail all the time. Mindfulness of the breath is one of the most frustrating meditation p...

The path of awakening begins with a step the Buddha called right understanding. Right understanding has two parts. To start with, it asks a question of our h...

The essence of our experience is change. Change is incessant. Moment by moment life flows by, and it is never the same. Perpetual fluctuation is the essence ...

The word 'meditation' covers many mental experiences, but the goal of Buddhist meditation is to see things as they are; it is a state of awakened attention. ...