My personal path to developing a stable meditation practice has been anything but consistent. And at the same time, over the past year since I've been practicing regularly according to the method I learned to teach, I have had the good fortune to experience consistently increasing benefits for myself, ones which have also had [...]
My answer to the question “Why meditate?” is borrowed from Rick Hanson, Ph.D.’s book Buddha’s Brain, and is grounded in his self-caring idea of “being on our own side”: You are a human being like any other – and just as deserving of happiness, love and wisdom. Nurturing your own development isn’t selfish. It’s [...]
Given how short and seemingly simple the question "What is meditation?" is, it may seem like there should be a definitive answer. However, a quick web search yields many possibilities: “contemplation, thought, thinking, musing, pondering, consideration, and reflection,” to name a few. The Wikipedia entry for “meditation” defines it as: “…a practice where an individual [...]