I know a group of people who are trying not to overwork, but rather to pace themselves. They have some wonderful tools including a meditation on prioritizing. Here’s what they have to say, “We decide which are the most important things to do first. Sometimes that may mean doing nothing. We strive to stay flexible [...]
It has been a month since the shootings in Newtown, Connecticut. The punch of the news took days to even begin to metabolize. […]
I could never “successfully” meditate until finding my Jizo. Maybe I was too young, maybe my ego could not surrender to the process (likely it really hasn’t even now but there has been some progress). What I have found is that the grounding aspect of Jizo, whose Sanskrit name – Ksitigarbha – means Earth Womb, [...]
When I Google “Idea Horse” nothing much shows up. The first hit is the Ideal Horse in Aristotle’s concepts of the Ideal-Fill-in-the-Blank. When I search for The Monkey Mind and The Idea Horse, I begin to find small mentions. […]
In all my years on the path, no one introduced me to the Idea Horse. He is a close relative to the Monkey Mind, a term most American Buddhists and yogis are familiar with. Both represent the racing thoughts, the distracted mind, the things people wish they could silence with meditation. The problem is, it [...]
Say “Hello, monkey.” Whatever the chatter is — no matter how harsh, silly, irrelevant or distracting — you must learn how to handle the monkey mind: that endless chatter of fear, restlessness, distraction and other voices in our heads that Buddha described as monkeys clamoring for our attention. If you hate the monkey mind , [...]
