Dear Friends, Thinking Don’t you wish they would stop, all the thoughtsswirling around in your head, bees in a hive, dancerstapping their way across the stage? I should rake the leavesin the carport, buy Christmas lights. Was there really life on Mars?What will I cook for dinner? I walk up the driveway,put out the garbage bins. I should… Read More »
Dear Friends, Concluding this dive into Sally Armstrong’s talk, “Facets of Equanimity,” and this exploration of equanimity as an expression of wisdom, and in particular into the notion of karma (kamma). Sally read a passage from Thanissaro Bhikkhu, instead of promoting resigned powerlessness, the early Buddhist notion of karma focused on the liberating potential of what the mind… Read More »
Dear Friends, I enjoy taking online classes related to mindfulness, meditation, and Buddhism. This fall, I took a course based on Guy Armstrong’s book Emptiness: A Practical Guide for Meditators. In the book and course, Guy talks about his experience of observing autopsies, which he did while a monk in Thailand. After the autopsies were finished, he was waiting… Read More »
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 »
