Last week we looked at Bhikkhu Analayo's understanding of sati or mindfulness as a good friend always available to us. This week, we come back to this with a personal reflection or contemplation prac

Being aware of the physical elements of Earth, Air, Sun and Water in the body can be an opening to seeing into a more intimate relationship with ourselves and all around us that is naturally wise and

This sharing draws from teachings of Andrew Olendzki's lovely short article, What's In A Word, Sati, from Tricycle and Bhikku Analayo's book, Satipatthana Meditation, both of which make clear that our

Drawing from a teaching from Bhikku Analayo, respected Buddhist scholar and monk, on a feminine nature of mindfulness, this meditation is an opportunity to explore mindfulness as an open, understandin

Drawing from the poem, What It Is, this meditation explores noticing the judgmental mind and its story, as well as the possibility of settling back into a radical wise accepting love. "It is nonsense

"..To every grain that enters: 'Welcome.' To every parting mote: 'Be blessed.'" From: Earthworms, poem by Lynn Ungar, www.lynnungar.com Please note: no accompanying talk.

Classical Zen Story shared by Tara Brach in Radical Acceptance: - An old woman had supported a monk for twenty years, letting him live in a hut on her land. After all this time she figured the monk, n

What happens when we totally let go of an evaluation of our meditation as a success or failure," or it working for me or not working for me? In opening to the dance of energy in this human life,

Medical Sociologist Aaron Antonosvsky studied the relationship between stress, health and well-being focusing on people who had survived extreme stress with an intact sense of coherence. His work prov

Working with insight into change as a means of freedom through a human heart.