They say ” Where ever you go there you are”. So it doesn’t matter where on the planet you are, you can be happy or not, the place isn’t the important part. Chasing after (clinging to) what you think is good, ( positive emotional responses) and avoiding what you think is bad, (negative emotional responses) […]

The ten Ox herding Pictures: http://www.buddhism.org/board/read.cgi?board=glossary&y_number=46

this article “the anxiety of the long distance meditator” is one bittersweet journey… http://opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/12/17/the-anxiety-of-the-long-distance-meditator/?smid=pl-share

How do you define contentment? Is it when we think everything is going our way?  No, that is just our deluded thinking at the moment.  For in the next moment we thing everything sucks and nothing is going our way. For me contentment is accepting things as they are.  By “things” I mean the landscape […]

When it is the most difficult to sit, is when I need it most.