We all have bad habits. Some physical or mental activity we engage in that erodes our vitality. The challenging thing about giving up bad habits is that they can feel pretty good to us! Recently, I’ve had to tackle this fact head on by giving up drinking alcohol and smoking cigarettes. But what I thought […]
Having Tea With Mara
The way the story goes, when Siddhartha sat under the Bodhi tree and meditated on the night he was to become the Buddha, the god Mara slung arrows at him all night. Mara is essentially the god of Shadow, and his arrows were manifestations of all the unawakened thoughts and emotions of Siddhartha’s human experience. […]
How Do You Meditate: An Introduction to Free Awareness
Recently I was deep in meditation practice, letting go of everything that passed across the screen of my consciousness. There were all sorts of very interesting things emerging in the fertile field of my awareness, but because I was meditating, I had resolved to let it all go. How Do You Meditate I practice a […]