Spirituality
While incredibly helpful as a guide, misunderstanding or over-applying the Nine Attitudes of Mindfulness can create real problems. Mo Edjlali, Founder of Mindful Leader, explores how we can hold a balanced, healthy view of these nine core principles. The post Can the...
‘At its heart, the Buddha’s teaching is profoundly simple, offering a clear path towards liberation.’ Everyday Buddhism
“The wound is the place where the Light enters you.” ~ Rumi I never imagined I’d be here at forty-nine—divorced, disoriented, and drowning in an identity crisis. I had met him just before my sixteenth birthday. He was all I knew. We built an entire life...
‘With practice hidden, function secretly, like a fool, like an idiot. Just to continue in this way is called the host within the host.’ Nan-yüan
“Mindfulness is a pause—the space between stimulus and response: that’s where choice lies.” ~Tara Brach We’ve all been there. A sharp reply. A snide remark. A moment when we said something that didn’t come from our heart but from somewhere else entirely—a need to be...
‘Acknowledge the experiences as they arise. They are the reality of the moment.’ Everyday Buddhism
Exploring difficult emotions and experiences may be the key to loosening their hold over us. Gentle awareness of our inner world allows us to transform shame in this practice from Patricia Rockman, MD. The post 12 Minute Meditation: Transform Shame Into Self-Trust...
“When the soul wishes to experience something, she throws an image of the experience out before her and enters into her own image.” ~Meister Eckhart For most of my life, something in me felt off—misaligned, too much, not enough. I moved through the world trying to fix...
‘To see the absence of thought is to master all the dharmas. To see the absence of thought is to embrace all the dharmas.’ Shen Hui
“The meaning of life is just to be alive. It is so plain and so obvious and so simple. And yet, everybody rushes around in a great panic as if it were necessary to achieve something beyond themselves.” ~Alan Watts As I enter the later stage of life, I find myself...