Category Archives: Meditations

Meditation: review 2, breathing tonglen

All sentient beings breathe. Using the rhythm of the breath has been a meditative technique since time immemorial. Somewhere along the way, breathing also became a meditational method of compassion and beneficial transformation. With it, the meditator and all of … Continue reading

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Meditation: review 1, praying it forward

Ancient stories tell of a golden age when all was peaceful, plentiful, and beauty was within and all around. There’s not usually a description of how that was so, such as did people and animals eat; was the temperature comfortable … Continue reading

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Meditation: no mind, zen slow 2

It feels important to slow down. For the world, oneself, those around one. We sit. Breathing. Simple. Simply.  

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Meditation: no mind 23, zen slow

We begin this year with slowing things down.

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Meditation: no mind 22, sameness

When the mind is serene, sustained in its own luminescent spaciousness, no distinctions can be found in that clear openness. In other words, all is a sameness. When we are centered, grounded, Present, the gentility of that experience relieves the … Continue reading

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