Notice the irritation you feel when you are talking to someone and they don't make eye contact or when you are trying to have a conversation with someone who is distracted by other things. Presence, or giving someone our undivided attention is perhaps the greatest gift that we can give…
"I don’t envision a single thing that, when unguarded, leads to such great harm as the mind. The mind, when unguarded leads to great harm."This quote from the Buddha, taken from the Aṅguttara Nikāya is the central topic for this mornings podcast.
Present moment awareness is the only reality. I could stop right there.Have you noticed that now, the present moment is the only thing there is. The past no longer exists except in imagination. The future no longer exists except in imagination. Stepping out of present moment awareness is one of…
Our human experience consists of perceptions of the world, body and mind. We can rest our attention anywhere but like an addiction our attention tends to rest on whatever is going through our mind. This in meditative traditions is said to be the cause of unhappiness and 'suffering' we have…
Meditation anchors, return you to the present moment when lost in thought. This recognition that develops early, after starting a regular practice of meditation correlates to structural and functional changes in the brain that have been detected as early as four weeks after starting a daily practice on MRI and…
We have the the freedom to give our attention to anything. We need to take it away from the constant stream of thoughts that bombard us.