Attention My Fellow Men: Your “True Nature” Calls
“Just remain on your cushion without expecting anything. Then eventually you will resume your own true nature. That is to say, your own true nature resumes itself.” — Suzuki Roshi — I believe there are sociocultural factors that contribute to ways that people tend to lose touch over time with [...]
Here’s why I meditate.
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, [...]
Why meditate?
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 [...]
What is meditation?
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: [...]