Clearing Some Confusion Around the Casual Use of ‘Mindfulness’ — ‎The Space of Possibility: What is Mindfulness? on Apple Podcasts Before you begin your vipassana - or insight - practice, learn a bit about what mindfulness is and what it isn't.podcasts.apple.com Mindfulness practice is currently a fad in the West. And that’s wonderful — it’s great that, as a culture, we’re promoting more mindfulness and less mindlessness. But with its surge in popularity, there has also been a lot of misunderstanding as to what mindfulness is. …

Look Directly At Your Own Mind — We all spend a lot of time thinking about ourselves. We think about what we like and don’t like. We think about where we’ve been, about what we’ve done, and about where we’re going. We obsess about how people view us, about what we’ve accomplished, about what titles we hold…

Know Directly the Love that Is You — You don’t need to search far and wide for the Divine connection. There’s no need to munch on magic mushrooms, gulp down ayahuasca, fast for forty days, or sit a three-month retreat to witness it. …

Transform Your Unconscious Habits & Behaviors — “What you think and ponder becomes the tendency of your mind.” — The Buddha The problem though, if you’re anything like me, is that so many thoughts slip through awareness unnoticed. It’s like awareness loves to hide itself, to get lost in its contents, and so I don’t even realize…

Start Practicing Vipassana — or Insight Meditation — ‎The Space of Possibility: What is Insight Meditation? on Apple Podcasts Learn about the ancient Buddhist practice vipassana, or insight meditation, and why it's applicable to you.podcasts.apple.com Hey you. Welcome back. Today we’re going to talk about the ancient Buddhist practice vipassana, or insight meditation. Now, just to be clear, this is an entirely secular practice. It doesn’t require you to adopt any dogmatic beliefs. It doesn’t require you to abandon your faith if you have one…

I am that which never lives and cannot die, the unwitnessed witness and seer you cannot see. Unborn and unformed, I live without a trace And carry not even a shadow. I am that which, with my marvel, bears life, that which gives voice to the earth, to the sun, moon…

What are Your Spiritual Impulses? — What are Your Spiritual Impulses? “Children, love one another.” — John the Evangelist If only these words could awaken the truth in our hearts and guide us with steady hands and feet. Morality, though, can’t be established by words alone. It requires you to look into yourself. …

The World Begins With Wonder — Wonder is the beginning. It is the space from which all things unfold, it gives birth to questions, it is the womb of understanding. It molds from the empty space of awareness all that can be known. Deb Wood — my love, my partner, my human— recently held up a…

How do you hold your love? Do you hold her from stillness, with nowhere to go, with nothing to do? How do you hold your love? Do you hold her with acceptance, with open hands and arms, with unabashed surrender? How do you hold your love? Do you hold her from…