Meditation

A 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’…

Thirty minutes of meditation, described.

Sometimes, I find it difficult to let go of a fantasy.

On a meditation retreat, I come face to face with my warped perceptions and projections.

Not to take anything away from this blog, or its readers, but I haven’t really missed you. (Winking smiley face.)

An examination of all of the sensations associated with rejected or abandoned. Or imagining I have been.

Upon examination, my anger almost always dissolves into fear.

I’m in pain, with little hope of relief. Ever. And it seems to be producing some intense emotions in me.

In 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),…

“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…