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Meditation
28 posts
Therapy
Read moreA reader recently suggested I consider therapy. This is a ridiculous suggestion. Not because I don’t “need therapy” – I do. But because I am, in fact, one of the world’s largest consumers of therapy. Here’s a graph, showing Americans’…
Meditation
Read moreThirty minutes of meditation, described.
Remembering anya
Read moreSometimes, I find it difficult to let go of a fantasy.
Meditation, or, a story of perception
Read moreOn a meditation retreat, I come face to face with my warped perceptions and projections.
Moments
Read moreNot to take anything away from this blog, or its readers, but I haven’t really missed you. (Winking smiley face.)
Rejection and abandonment
Read moreAn examination of all of the sensations associated with rejected or abandoned. Or imagining I have been.
Anger revisited
Read moreUpon examination, my anger almost always dissolves into fear.
Anger and loss
Read moreI’m in pain, with little hope of relief. Ever. And it seems to be producing some intense emotions in me.
The five hindrances
Read moreIn Buddhist thinking, there are “five mental hindrances.” According to Wikipedia, the Buddhist scripture with which I’m most familiar, these hindrances “hinder progress in meditation and in our daily lives.” When I meditate (currently, forty-five minutes a day, at least),…
Question – meditation
Read more“When you start to drift into a situation where you might make bad choices, you stop and meditate? I understand the value of daily, routine prayer or meditation, but I guess I don’t see the connection to things that occur…