meditation
Ideas for practice and teaching
meditation
Ideas for practice and teaching
We so routinely look outside of ourselves for answers that when we turn to look within, it can feel foreign. It can feel challenging, confusing, scary, and painful.
It’s still possible to get caught up in habitual patterns of the thinking mind and the compulsive body. But eventually, there is a remembering, a coming home. The mind stops, the body quiets, the heart opens. When this happens, in that natural stillness and wakefulness, everything is complete and nothing more is needed. There is no me, no
... See moreHere are some rules of thumb that might help you navigate whatever practice you are trying out.
Just as there is no one instrument that is the sole, true embodiment of music, there is no hierarchy of traditions or practices. Who is to say that the violin is better or worse than the piano?
When I practice 'being conscious of being conscious', I don't just watch my experience, I find myself appreciating my experience.