Dear Friends, Today, I offer Mark Nunberg’s meditation “Spiritual Urgency,” in which he invites us to rest deeply in the present moment by cultivating non-distraction and openness. In this meditation, Mark guides us to relax and open, by assuming a posture that balances courageousness with softness, letting go of defensiveness and opening to whatever arises. Then we are… Read More »
Dear Friends, We have concluded the series of talks from Gil on each of the faculties, so I’ll wrap up the month with a few closing reflections to pull everything together (I hope). The first thing to I want to visit is the idea of balance. The comments that follow are informed by an article from Edward Conze,… Read More »
Dear Friends, My dog, Reece, has interesting habits. When I’m in the kitchen and I open the treat door, no matter where he is in the house, he will come running. However, if I turn on the toaster oven, he will run to another part of the house. If I’m washing the dishes, he may or may not… Read More »
Dear Friends, Continuing with Sally Armstrong’s talk, “The roles of mindfulness, metta and equanimity in our practice“, can you relate to this sentiment… What we often see is our minds are messy. They are relentless. They never stop. Unless we do this deliberate turning towards presence, towards the body, towards simplicity. ~ Sally Armstrong Or perhaps you recognize… Read More »
Dear Friends, Another way to contemplate body, as specified in the Satipatthana Sutta, is in terms of the elements: And further, monks, a monk reflects on this very body, however it be placed or disposed, by way of the material elements: “There are in this body the element of earth, the element of water, the element of fire,… Read More »
