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 ...

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. Th...

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...

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

Often, when we are confronted by some problem which arises again and again, we think we have somehow been fooling ourselves about any kin...

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 i...

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

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...

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 ...

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 ...

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...

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

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

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

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

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 ...