What if your meditation practice this week was to be mindful about just one thing? It’s customary during a Zen Buddhist retreat for the students to choose one small, daily task and focus on bringing mindfulness to it. It could be brushing your teeth, walking your…
In Tibetan tradition, there are four kinds of mindfulness that compose the practice of meditation: First, average mindfulness is the kind that happens naturally when we’re curious or interested in something. We don’t make a conscious choice to turn our attention toward something; it’s more like…
Happy New Year! It seems so fitting that practicing the fifth paramita, meditation, is happening in January. January brings the feeling of new things, of fresh starts. It is the perfect time to begin a meditation practice, if you don’t have one already. Or, to just…