Paying Attention to the Tool That Pays Attention
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Paying Attention to the Tool We Use to Pay Attention Before I take my brain out in public, it seems only prudent to check the machinery. Before I unleash my normally passionate—and sometimes reactive—engagement with the world, I like to get in sync with my mind, and have some idea how I’m actually feeling. How […]
Setting an Intention For Our Intention We sometimes find ourselves off course in life. For me this stems from being off course with my mindfulness practice. If I’m not paying attention now, I’m likely not on track down the line. Without mindfulness intentions will to come and go. Without grounding in Mindfulness successful outcomes are […]
Making Space For Life I think we all feel that we have enough on our minds. Maybe too much. I remember the cartoon of the school child raising their hand, “ma’am can I be excused, my brain is full.” In truth our minds are capable of accessing astronomical amounts of information. It’s simply that the […]
The notion of a living Buddha is, that following the Buddhist path our relationship with the Buddha is alive, experiential and developmental.
What happens before a thought? Is there an instance of space that opens? Before we fill it with a cognition? Before we decide what this moment means? Before the notion of “me” arises again? Maybe in this perfect moment of open space anything and everything is possible. I wonder whether the birth of a thought […]
Just Connect to the Feeling The title is a play on the Journey song. Though it was a massive hit, I’m not a fan of the band, nor the sentiment of the song. Don’t stop believing? What would we do if we didn’t have to believe anything? Beliefs are things we have to squint our […]
Turn and Face the Strange …
Making Sure I’m still here I was riding in the car with a friend. After a time we had fallen into silence. I found myself having an imaginary conversation with a brother who lived on the other side of the continent. I’m an Italian American, so I talk to myself with my hands. My friend […]
Daily Practice Changes Everything There’s a feeling we all have that the more triggered we are, the greater the remedy we need. Therefore, we often overlook very basic and fundamental tools that help us regain and maintain emotional balance and mental clarity. Being triggered affects our stability because the experience compels us to react. Often […]
Good and evil. What cosmic narcissism to be the center of everything in the moral universe. The classic trope of the good angel on one shoulder and the bad angel on the other with us caught in a struggle between ultimate good and ultimate evil. Many of us continue to live under the weight of […]