 “Just observe your thoughts,” they say. But aren’t you already observing your thoughts by thinking about them? This is a great point! The internet abounds with advice that can be confusing for beginners in meditation. For example, you might’ve also heard someone say that you should let your thoughts come and go. It can … Read more
We already know about the Buddha’s discovery of the Four Noble Truths and the Noble Eightfold Path. But what do we know about the time before that and the reasons that prompted the Buddha to leave his home and become a monk? These are some of the subjects taken up in a wonderful book titled … Read more
In Stillness Speaks, Eckhart Tolle writes that one of the most powerful spiritual practices is to meditate deeply on the mortality of physical forms, including your own. This is called “die before you die.” Of course you know you’re going to die but that remains a mere future possibility until death enters your life through … Read more
 If you’ve learned how to see a tree, you no longer want it to be merely a “tree;” you simply want it to “be.” That is seeing; that is being; that is life. In this way, you develop a tender kinship with trees, recalibrating your sense of what’s real, of what’s most important in … Read more