Mindfulness

The Solitude or Loneliness of Quarantine

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...

Becoming a Mind Whisperer

Sustaining your attention on the breathing really develops awareness but when you get lost in thought or restlessness, that's all right...

Beginning again (and again)

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...

Taming without aggression

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...

A Good Meditation

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

Values and Actions

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

Let's Begin Here

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...