Going Back to the Body (A Meditation Reminder)

If you lose yourself in daydreams while meditating, if concentration is an issue, then body awareness can become a remedy for your scattered mind. You can think of it as a foundational skill that will make observing your breath or developing lovingkindness more effective. But beyond its ability to aid other types of meditation, mindfulness … Read more

Chuang Tzu and the Butterfly Dream: A Chinese Parable That Questions Whether We Can Know Anything to Be Real

Chuang Tzu, or more commonly Zhuangzi, is the name of a great Chinese philosopher who lived around the fourth century BCE in the Meng province, present-day Henan. Chuang Tzu is also a name of a work considered to be one of the foundational texts of Taoism. Central to it is the belief that only by … Read more