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 […]
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We Cannot Escape Impermanence
One of the so-called “remembrances” contains the statement, “We cannot escape impermanence.” This is recited daily in monasteries around the world. This article is about the advice that I recently gave to a colleague when she was troubled with the law of change. Consider this wisdom teaching from Zen Master Thich Nhat Hanh from my […]
Daily Practice
I want to share with you the details of my daily practice. These practices nourish me year after year and continue to be the source of my health and well-being. After I awaken, I log on to Insight Timer and begin my morning practice. I often listen to guided meditations to help me become centered and […]
Sleep Strategies
Sleep is one of the most important elements of health. Many people don’t get enough sleep or struggle to get a good night’s rest. Meditation and mindfulness are great tools to overcome these boundaries. The following sleep strategies are from a course taught by Jeremy Lipkowitz, an international meditation teacher and mindfulness coach based in Chiang […]
The 3 I’s
One of my main meditation practices of the day is to identify the “3 I’s” and what they continue to teach me. Read this article and see if it makes sense to you. Then you can begin to practice the “3 I’s”. Before we go into this, let me describe the practice that brings me […]
American JuBu
In the current issue (Spring 2020) of Tricycle Magazine, there is a review article about Emily Sigalow’s new book, “American JewBu: Jews, Buddhists, and Religious Change.” I was deeply moved by this review to the extent of making a comment. Here is what I wrote: I was brought up in a conservative kosher home in […]
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 […]
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