In my 19 years of education, I was never explicitly taught how to maintain equanimity; but I did learn that an equilateral triangle was e...

Most days, I carve out 10-30 minutes for a midday meditation to reset the mind and optimize cognitive performance. Attention and energy f...

2021. A new year. In December, I will turn 50. To celebrate the gift of 50 years of life, I started the 50/50 Project. The aim is to insp...

Sit to meditate long enough and you'll soon notice the mind has wandered. This is common. It is at this point a teacher will instruct yo...

This precious moment is all there is. Along comes another and another and another. Let's take partial inventory of what we have in this p...

With walking meditation, you get the benefits of exercise and meditation. Some benefits of exercise include: Improved cardiovascular/card...

Meditation is to mind as exercise is to body. Meditation is defined as a family of complex emotional and attentional regulatory strategie...

Discipline your thoughts; discipline your speech. Set a guard over your thoughts, and keep watch over the door of the lips. We co-create ...

Before a practitioner takes his or her seat to meditate outdoors, most of the work has already been done. Let us not minimize this effort...

When pain comes and the body fails, most would spend all they had for a remedy. When a child or loved one is sick and suffering, most wou...

How we approach our meditation practice matters and is a practice in itself. Preliminaries are to meditation what stretches are to exerci...

Communication is not a skill most of us were taught explicitly. With the best intentions, we often default to correcting, evaluating, adv...

There are many paths to peace. Meditation is one path. The general recommendation is 20 minutes once or twice a day (usually at a set tim...

Assuming radical responsibility for our thoughts, words, and deeds is one of the commitments practitioners resolve to keep. It is a privi...

Two years ago, I flew to Aruba to conduct an experiment. For 3 days, I wanted to follow the example of Mildred Lisette Norman, better know...

I began the day, as I always do, with breath work and meditation to calibrate the mind. It's a proactive approach to managing any challen...

I evolved from a passionate young man into a renunciate. I grew into celibacy. I chose this path because it leads to freedom. To discipli...

Meditators develop insight and an aesthetic awareness that encourages positive and healthful lifestyle changes. For me, vegetarianism/veg...

Prioritize your well-being. Do not stint on self-compassion. Neglecting our well-being can lead to compromised physical and mental health...

This being human can be challenging, but we are not without instruction. We have our own inner knowing. Whether we follow it or not is a ...