Spirituality
“Sometimes you have to let go of the life you planned to make room for the life that’s waiting for you.” ~Joseph Campbell My new motto? Always have a backup plan. Life rarely goes as you’d imagined. January 16th, 2001. That’s the day my life trajectory changed...
‘One comes across a weed, and it turns out to be an orchid.’ Zen Master Yunmen
In today’s offering, Jenee Johnson guides us through a teaching on the why and how of deep relaxation practices, along with a meditation you can do anytime. The post A Teaching and Meditation to Relax and Welcome Deep Rest appeared first on Mindful.
“AI accidentally made me believe in the concept of a human soul by showing me what art looks like without it.” ~Unknown What is intelligence? I’ve asked this question all my life—as a teacher, a filmmaker, a researcher, and now, as someone losing my vision to macular...
‘Thoughts arise and pass away, The preceding no different from the succeeding. If the succeeding thought does not arise, The preceding thought cuts itself off.’ Niutou Farong
‘Virtue is so feeble; Vice is so powerful and terrible! How can good ever triumph over evil Without the resolve to awaken?’ Acharya Shantideva
“It is not our differences that divide us. It is our inability to recognize, accept, and celebrate those differences.” ~Audre Lorde For most of my life, I asked myself a quiet question: What’s wrong with me? I didn’t say it out loud. I didn’t have to. It was stitched...
Photo by MemoryMan / stock.adobe.com 1. Wat Rong Khung, Thailand By the end of the twentieth century, Thailand’s Wat Rong Khun was in disrepair. As an offering to the Buddha, a local artist used his own money to rebuild it—in white. Photo by William R. Pugsley /...
Bhikkhu Bodhi knows hunger not as a metaphor, but as a memory etched into his body. As a young American monk in the early 1970s, he began his monastic training in rural Sri Lanka at a time when the country was facing a severe economic crisis. This forced the...
The rain clouds receded, and the October sun finally broke through as I was practicing walking meditation on a deck overlooking a small pond—my favorite place to walk during the seven-day retreat at Cloud Mountain Retreat Center. Red and gold leaves blanketed the...