I took five weeks away from CCM for family need. What I quickly learned was that I needed the time out of my usual pace of life just as much as anyone in my family. Todays sharing is reflections on

There is a normal ebb and flow in all parts of life, including our meditation practice. We can learn to move with the naturalness of opening and closing by allowing body, breath, and senses to be a ho

This talk explores the Buddhist concept of citta and draws heavily from the beautiful talk available on Dharmaseed, Making a Suitable Home for the Heart, by Chas DiCapua.

This meditation uses a phrase for practice from Thich Nhat Hanh: - May I have compassion and understanding for myself just as I am.

In this sharing, we explore one of the poems from the beautiful book,The First Free Women: Original Poems Inspired by the Early Buddhist Nuns,by Matty Weingast. When used as practice for examining

This meditation includes the poem Victor, from the beautiful book,The First Free Women: Original Poems Inspired by the Early Buddhist Nuns,by Matty Weingast: Victor: When everyone else was meditat

How mosquitos move through a raindrop is a powerful metaphor for the attunement of mindfulness. - The Mosquito Among the Raindrops byTeddy Macker - The mosquito among the raindrops - It's equivalent

Dont meditate to fix yourself, to heal yourself, to improve yourself, to redeem yourself; rather, do it as an act of love, of deep warm friendship to yourself. In this way there is no longer any nee

Noticing how the mind can confuse a stick for a copperhead can teach much about three basic truths of reality as named by Buddhist psychology.

This is a meditation in using noting practice, skillfully to acknowledge validate and return home again as needed.