Spirituality
Many fail in leadership positions, despite outstanding individual performance. Daniel Goleman explains that they often miss two important mental stances, which the best leaders understand as critical to the job. The post The Best Leaders Think: What About Me, What...
I am sitting across the table from a good friend, a man who is a professor and a chaplain. David has flown in from Minneapolis, arriving at Upaya Zen Center an hour ago. I look into his eyes and realize that I am seeing something in him I have never seen before. His...
“Between stimulus and response there is a space. In that space is our power to choose our response. In our response lies our growth and our freedom.” ~Viktor E. Frankl I stood in my kitchen, staring at the leftover red velvet cake from my birthday party the night...
‘Dependent on contact, there is feeling. From feeling, perception. From perception, thought fabrication. From thought fabrication, proliferation (papañca). From proliferation, perceptions of self and other arise—and with them, conflict.’ Madhupiṇḍika...
Practice how to skillfully connect with your anger, not to drive it away, but get curious to see what’s really there, and then see how we want to respond. The post A Meditation to Skillfully Connect With Your Anger appeared first on Mindful.
Under the bright afternoon sun, so many people are holding floral umbrellas that the crowd looks like a garden. Row after row of monks in maroon and mustard are near the pavilion where the ceremonies are taking place. In the stands behind them are lay folks, most...
‘The way of virtue is respecting the world — respecting our own bodies, respecting the rights of other beings, living in a way that is not cruel, not harmful, not divisive, not insensitive, not brutal.’ Ajahn Sumedho
“Hope is not a prediction. It is the choice to believe something good is possible before we have proof.” For most of my life, I lived with an internal alarm system that never turned off. I expected disaster around every corner—financial collapse, professional failure,...
“The present moment is filled with joy and happiness. If you are attentive, you will see it.” ~Thich Nhat Hanh I want to shine a light on something that often gets overlooked in both the medical world and the mental health space. Something I didn’t have a name for...
‘There’s a saying about Kobo (ad800) whose calligraphy is regarded, even today, as amongst the greatest examples of this highly developed art: ‘‘This wonderful calligrapher does not choose his brush. Kobo Daishi, Great Teacher Kobo, does not choose the brush.’’’...