By Jessica Zack — 2020
Like a lot of people with newfound interest in Buddhist meditation, Jarvis Jay Masters struggled at first to sit still and quiet his mind.
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To drop into being means to recognize your interconnectedness with all life, and with being itself. Your very nature is being part of larger and larger spheres of wholeness. But there’s so much mud and silt layering itself on top in the form of conditioned behavior and self-centeredness.
Jon Kabat-Zinn talks about mindfulness meditation and his morning ritual.
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Pope Francis has declared a global “climate emergency,” warning of the dangers of global heating and that a failure to act urgently to reduce greenhouse gases would be “a brutal act of injustice toward the poor and future generations.”
Guardian editorial--No other spiritual leader is speaking out so clearly for the poor and for the environment in the developing world."
Op-Ed: His papacy has been a consistent rebuke to American culture-war Christianity in politics.
Insight teacher James Baraz teaches how to train mindfulness with sitting meditation from the Vipassana tradition.
As Buddhist teaching says, suffering has the potential to deepen our compassion and understanding of the human condition. And in so doing, it can lead us to even greater faith, joy and well-being.
A focus on the present, dubbed “mindfulness,” can make you happier and healthier. Training to deepen your immersion in the moment works by improving attention
We’re living in volatile, uncertain, complex, ambiguous times. Neuroscientist Amishi Jha explains ten ways your brain reacts—and how mindfulness can help you survive, and even thrive.