Spirituality
Former Mindful editor Stephanie Domet sits down for a Q&A with Rhonda Magee on being with vulnerability, getting angry, and knowing joy and healing are possible. The post The Gift of Being Alive: A Q&A with Rhonda Magee appeared first on Mindful.
Poetry can be a kind of meditation, explains Rashid Hughes. He explores how the art of haiku can open your heart and bring a sense of peaceful, awe-inspired expressiveness into your practice. The post How Writing Three Lines of Poetry Can Open Your Heart appeared...
Life is never constant. And it can be difficult to remain balanced in the midst of change. Susan Bauer-Wu shares a guided meditation to ground us in the present moment and cultivate equanimity. The post A Meditation to Create Inner Balance in the Face of Change...
Observe the changes that take place in your mind under the light of awareness. Even your breathing has changed and become “not-two” (I don’t want to say “one”) with your observing self. This is true of all your thoughts, feelings and habits, which, together with...
“I will not teach or love or show you anything perfectly, but I will let you see me, and I will always hold sacred the gift of seeing you—truly, deeply, seeing you.” ~Brené Brown The first time my kids saw me truly cry was Christmas of 2021. My oldest was sixteen, and...
‘And what, monks, is ageing? In whatever beings of whatever group of beings, there is ageing, decrepitude, broken teeth, grey hair, wrinkled skin, shrinking with age, decay of the sense-faculties—that, monks, is called ageing.’ The Buddha
My first experiences learning to meditate were with my late father, Tulku Urgyen Rinpoche. He was a revered meditation teacher, but he lived a very simple life, spending most of his time in a small hermitage on the outskirts of the Kathmandu Valley. Some of my most...
“She remembered who she was, and the game changed.” ~Lalah Delia The scale. Those dreaded words and those dreaded numbers. It can strike fear in the heart of any generally happy human. We look at guidelines and BMI charts and always think, “It should be lower.” Have...
‘If you do zazen, you get to see for yourself that things just arise in your perception; where they begin and where they end you cannot know.’ Gien Inour Roshi
If you met eighteen year old Latifia today, you would see a bright and confident student leader who thrives on taking on new challenges. She is outspoken, highly social, and planning a future career in technology. But if you had met her five years ago, she would have...