Everyday Mindfulness

In the book "Dropping ashes on the Buddha" there is a chapter called The Story of Sul. It is a wonderful story about a little girl and at the end of the story Sul is a grandmother who's granddaughter just died. I think this story could help you in dealing with your grief. I wish you well.

I once saw an interview of an elderly black woman who's college bound grandson was recently gunned down in front of her house as he came to visit her and the interviewer asked if this depression she was feeling would ever go away. She looked at the interviewer with puzzlement and said "depressi...

There are pitfalls with gained insights. First let me say that these insights are of great benefit to you. Understand if you take the proper path you will continually receive these insights, most of them you have not discovered yet. So you still have much work to do. I say "proper path" be...

I feel like a bucket of water on a camp fire. Maybe this is not for me. I wish you all the best.

There is no question that the stress of depression or tragic events can try your mindfulness practice. There is scattered mind, simple mind, one mind, and then no mind. With no mind, which is not an easy place to be without many years of practice, the self disappears into the action which is what I ...

Jonw, here is a poem for you Does an echo ever lie Does an echo ever tell a lie No an echo is always the truth How do you know Try it and you will see If I yell a lie then a lie will return What returns in not a lie How can that be Go try it and you will see Does the echo change the words around No ...

When I think of the 60 plus decades of my lifetime there is very little I learned in a classroom. When you see a butterfly outside your window and you think of it as your teacher the learning never stops. See all things as your teacher and you can't say "learned". Give me one word that is ...

Remember there is very little you can learn from a teacher in a classroom. The best they can offer is a finger pointing you in a direction that will help you. At worst you will trust everything they say as the truth. I know I will catch a lot of heat for this but all words are lies. They are just re...