Everything is practice
“The purpose of life is to be defeated by greater and greater things.”Rainer Maria Rilke For just about all of us, every day brings some disappointment, even if small, if…
0 Comments
May 30, 2022
Review of 4000 Weeks by Oliver Burkeman
I finished this moderate-length book very quickly, which I attribute to it being a very well-written, thought-provoking, and intelligently articulated work. I listened to the audio version, and the narration…
March 19, 2022
Balance
As a metaphor for emotional regulation, I’ve been thinking about the simple image of balancing on top of a ball lately. The one in my imagination looks like one of…
March 7, 2022
Are we “doing” anything while meditating?
I have been paying attention to what makes a meditation feel successful. A few metaphors have come up for me when I think about what this feels like. Exercise I…
July 28, 2021
Watching experience as if it were a film
The other day I was jogging / hiking and listening to an audiobook. Or maybe it was a podcast. I don’t remember, and that is telling. It was just noise…
July 16, 2021
Will meditation make me feel better?
Probably most people begin meditating because they want to feel relief from suffering. And sometimes the relief does come quickly. But not always. People often invest in the stock market…
July 8, 2021
Anxiety and forgotten grief
"Don’t forget, the heaviest rain comes out of the darkest clouds.”Rumi I recently made a connection between unresolved grief and fears of the future. I’m using the term “grief” here…
July 7, 2021
Struggling with self-hate? Try these two things
Self-hate. Self-loathing. Low self-esteem. Lack of confidence. Insecurity. Self-consciousness. Shame. So many words and phrases for the human experience of not really liking ourselves. Did I miss any? That was…
June 24, 2021
Fear and its proportionality to danger
I went to a discussion group recently that stimulated this post. The topic was “fear and proportionality”, but it also ventured into territories such as: What is the opposite of…
February 26, 2020