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Words of Wisdom for August 19, 2023

Dear Friends: Words stand between silence and silence: between the silence of things and the silence of our own being, between the silence of the world and the silence of God. When we have really met and known the world in silence, words do not separate us from the world nor from other[s], nor from […]

Personal Mindfulness Training Offer

A Personal Mindfulness Training session (aka “mind stories”) is a guided meditation practice I have been teaching since 1973. Hundreds of people have experienced deep relaxation, health and healing as well as deep insights from this training. Compassionate listening and loving speech are the foundations of our practice. As mindfulness deepens awareness of our experience […]

Personal Mindfulness Training

A Personal Mindfulness Training session (aka “mind stories”) is a guided meditation practice I have been teaching since 1973. Hundreds of people have experienced deep relaxation, health and healing as well as deep insights from this training. Compassionate listening and loving speech are the foundations of our practice. As mindfulness deepens awareness of our experience […]

Mindfulness Personal Training Offer

A Mindfulness Personal Training session (aka “mind stories”) is a guided meditation practice I have been teaching since 1973. Hundreds of people have experienced deep relaxation, health and healing as well as deep insights from this training. Compassionate listening and loving speech are the foundations of our practice. As mindfulness deepens awareness of our experience […]

Mindfulness Personal Training

A Mindfulness Personal Training session (aka “mind stories”) is a guided meditation practice I have been teaching since 1973. Hundreds of people have experienced deep relaxation, health and healing as well as deep insights from this training. Compassionate listening and loving speech are the foundations of our practice. As mindfulness deepens awareness of our experience […]

RAINS Meditation for Happiness

On October 21, 2021, I introduced this RAINS Meditation for Happiness to my colleagues in the Mindfulness Meditation Teacher Certification Program (MMTCP) with Jack Kornfield and Tara Brach and I am offering a version of it tonight for my class in How to Use Mindfulness to Be Happy. The acronym RAIN has been used by […]

Non-self

The Buddha’s original teaching on non-self is based on the five aggregates, skandas, of form, feelings, perceptions, mental formations and consciousness. He claims that form in not self, feelings are not self, perceptions are not self, mental formations are not self and consciousness is not self because they are impermanent and they cannot stand by […]

Taking Care of Anger

At a recent meeting of our Mindfulness In Healing sangha (meditation group) we discussed the Mindfulness Training #6, Taking Care of Anger. This training reads, Aware that anger blocks communication and creates suffering, we are committed to taking care of the energy of anger when it arises, recognizing and transforming the seeds of anger that […]

Full Connection Meditation

This Full Connection Meditation came to me from Lama Surya Das, with love and blessings. It came on a day in which three other quotes on love from Ram Das, Martha Beck and David Brazier. Click on the links to check them out! The mind is not always The best neighborhood to live in. For […]

Read Cosmology and Buddhist Thought for Just 1 ¢

Cosmology and Buddhist Thought A Conversation with Dr. Neil deGrasse Tyson Authored by Jerome Freedman, Ph. D. Cosmology and Buddhist Thought is the result of a conversation with astrophysicist and television celebrity, Dr. Neil deGrasse Tyson, that took place in New York at the end of May, 2011. While cosmologists look at the outer space […]