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“Chattering mind” is a Buddhist description of the human intelligence at its most undisciplined. Our minds chatter, grasp, struggle to understand. Too frequently, we define ourselves by these thoughts. We become these thoughts. And our lives become distorted and artificial. So why would I insult myself with the blog name “Chattering Mind?” Well, like you,…

With the hot movie about Truman Capote still in the theaters, everybody’s rereading Capote’s “In Cold Blood,” the true story of two men with closeted sexual issues who brutally murder a wholesome Kansas family of four. I say, “There is another way to understand this remarkable author!” You’ll find a deeper, sweeter, still-alienated Capote in…

It is hard to look outside at the brilliant yellow leaves and not think of one of the world’s greatest appreciators of the eternally changing seasons: a Seattle writer named Waverly Fitzgerald. If you don’t know her work and her website “The School of the Seasons,” I am thrilled to be introducing you. “Each season…

This past summer, while browsing in a bookstore, I happened upon a slim volume devoted to the landscape paintings of a still-living Massachusetts artist named Mary Sipp-Green. If I were a painter, I would want to paint like her. I thought you would be similarly moved by these paintings. They have an ethereal quality that…

Not long ago, as I was walking out the door of a “Gesture of Awareness” meditation retreat held in a hip section of lower Manhattan’s Chelsea, I nearly collided with Michael Imperioli, the actor who plays Tony Soprano’s drug-addicted nephew Christopher on HBO’s mega-successful, crime-family show “The Sopranos.” You could say that this was just…

Bone 1.Understand, I am always trying to figure outwhat the soul is,and where hidden,and what shape and so, last week,when I found on the beachthe ear boneof a pilot whale that may have diedhundreds of years ago, I thoughtmaybe I was closeto discovering something for the ear bone 2.is the portion that lasts longestin any…

I was recently fumbling through the sun salutations in a yoga class with a teacher who was new to me. Sun salutations are always a challenge since I prefer, like most women, I think, the more feminine, “yin” yoga postures–the floor stretches, the seated forward bends. Ahh, then I can relax. But standing postures like…

I am touched by your warm, supportive posts. They make me see that we could indeed develop a large community of like-minded chatterers. Let me know about the religious or spiritual practices you observe, the teachers you’re drawn to, and the workshops you attend. Of course, the web makes it possible for us to sit…

It is a challenge to mindfully administer herbal medicines and vitamin supplements. And if you’re establishing yourself as the family’s healer, you must ask yourself: “Am I giving this remedy based on wisdom and good experience, or am I blindly chasing the illusion that I can control my family’s health?” For my family, I’ve been…

Could we take our eyes off Camilla Parker Bowles’s borrowed tiara for a moment, and see that Prince Charles (currently on tour in the U.S.) is not such a loathesome guy? As I learn more of his passion for the environment, his dream of a sustainable argriculture, and his fondness for the writings of Rudolf…
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