"Everybody has a plan until they get punched in the mouth.” (Heavyweight Boxing Champion "Iron" Mike Tyson) Metaphorically speaking, what will happen to “your plan” when life “punches you in...
"They get bitter, they cling to guns or religion or antipathy to people who aren't like them or anti-immigrant sentiment or anti-trade sentiment as a way to explain their frustrations.”...
Meditation Brings light to our shadows…. Reveals the impermanent nature of our being…. Unveils our psychologically, socially and culturally constructed nature…. Reinforces our freedom to choose to transform ourselves...
Microscope. Telescope. Oscilloscope. Shenzhen Young (http://www.shinzen.org/) uses these scientific investigation tools as metaphors to explain how we use our minds in a mindfulness meditation session. Microscope: We use our minds...
What my mind gets from practicing meditation regularly: Variety, intensity & contrast.... Solution, resolution & revelation.... Closure, focus & stillness….
Working With Opposites – Despair/Hope -- A Short Meditation “Sit or lie in a comfortable position. Either close your eyes or lower your eyelids so that your eyes only have...
12 Years a Yogi: During the first week of February 2004, I officially started practicing a form of Hatha Yoga, known as “Bikram Yoga.” During my 12 years of practice,...
“The topic of the retreat, and its goal, is the turiya state – the elusive fourth level of human consciousness. During the typical human experience, say the Yogis, most of...