Tag Archives: Bob Sharples

January 26 – relating to thoughts

Dear Friends, The guided meditation I’m sharing today is from Guy Armstrong. https://www.dharmaseed.org/teacher/79/talk/18343/ (~30 minutes. Guided meditation starts ~5:30. No ending bell.) The recording starts with just over 5 minutes of discussion on mindfulness of thinking. Guy says we may have “experienced thinking as something of an enemy because it is the one thing that carries us away… Read More »

January 3 – meditation as an act of love

Dear Friends, In his book Meditation and Relaxation in Plain English, Bob Sharples gives this advice: Don’t 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 toward yourself. In this view there is no longer any need for the subtle aggression of… Read More »