I have been meditating a lot lately on safety. If you asked me what I fear, I don’t know if I could pinpoint something in particular – a fear of catching Covid, a fear that the government will collapse, a fear that my colleagues will figure out that I really have no idea what I …
When I was first learning to meditate, I used a CD from the meditation teacher, Jack Kornfield, a great CD to use when you are first learning. One of the meditations that he introduced on this CD was, what he called, a meditation for dying, which he said Buddhists practice when they are on their …
I have written before about how I used to be chronically late until, one day, I disappointed someone whose opinion about me was important to me. Then I made up my mind to be on time and I worked at it and worked, until I am now someone who is usually on time. That I …
This morning, I selected a guided meditation on gratitude from the meditation app that I use. I wasn’t looking for a gratitude meditation, I was looking for a Bodhisattva meditation but this was the closest I could find. At first, I was put off by the style of the recording. It felt overproduced, with that …
Yesterday I decided that I am taking things too seriously. Everything is a crisis. Everything needs my attention right now. I am worrying all the time. Worrying about Covid. Worrying about my family. Worrying about politics. Worrying about all the hate and anger in the world. Diving deep into the worrying spiral. Yes, things are …
