If you are a meditator, it is important to learn about changing the object of meditation from the story you are stuck in back to you body and feelings. Mark Epstein writes about the Tibetan slogan of “Stopping the wind,” i. e., the stuck story blowing through your mind. Using meditation or therapy to try […]
Addicted to Ease and Comfort
June 2, 2015 by Jerome Freedman
On Sunday night, I attended Marin Sangha. The teacher was Lisa Dale Miller and her topic was addiction. She said that we live in a society addicted to ease and comfort. I couldn’t agree more. She also explained that what we commonly thing of addictions are usually the result of some childhood trauma. This also […]
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Filed Under: Insights, Mindfulness, Research Tagged With: Addicted to Ease and Comfort, addiction, aggression, attachment, aversion, delusion, fear, fight-or-flight response, freeze, greed, hope, https://mountainsangha.org/7-principles-of-mindfulness-in-healing., ignorance, impermanent, Lisa Dale Miller, Marin Sangha, Three Poisons, tonic immobility
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