Professor Mark Williams, director of Oxford Mindfulness Center, offers some engaging insight about the neuroscience and benefits of mindfulness. Take a few moments to watch this short video as it reinforces how mindfulness practice can shift the way we use attention to relate to the activities of our mind, and how this quality of awareness […]
What is unwholesome in this world can only be changed from the inside out. We must first learn to befriend what we need to better understand.
We start with questions that may bring us insights only to more questions. Can we accept a process of inquiry without answering our deepest questions?…
‘Transcendence’ may simply be rising above our own obscurity and confusion so that we may have ‘distance’ from what we need to transform.
With practice, we can learn to befriend the mind with kindness so that it may soften to the ‘whisperings’ of the heart.
Conscious breathing helps us to anchor our attention and to bring us back into this moment… here and now.
Awareness is self-empowering as we disconnect our ‘auto pilot’ and make more discerning choices about how we direct our attention.
Mindfulness is present-moment awareness anchored with ‘observational distance’ from the object of one’s attention.
Equanimity is another one of those sublime virtues in our practice. It is the ground for wisdom and freedom, and often regarded as the protector of compassion, love, and tenderness. While some may think of equanimity as dry neutrality or cool aloofness, in its mature form, it produces a radiance and warmth of being. Its […]
“New mail or text message”… a squirt of dopamine. Again and again. Operant conditioning of our brains- rewired to be habitually drawn to our technological devices.