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Mindfulness Matters
Meditation Made Simple: Seven Considerations to Get You Going :: Four: You Can’t Do It Wrong
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Dr. Arnie Kozak
One of the most frequent complaints I get from my meditation students is the concern that they can’t meditate because they can’t concentrate; can’t clear the thoughts, clutter, and commotion from their minds. Relax. The goal of meditation is not clearing the mind of thoughts or making it a “blank slate” (at least not the…
How To Train A Wild Elephant
By
Dr. Arnie Kozak
Do we really need yet another book on mindfulness? In this case, yes. Jan Chozen Bays, M.D., author of Mindful Eating, has written How To Train a Wild Elephant & Other Adventures in Mindfulness (Shambhala 2011) a collection of mindfulness practice gems in this accessible, helpful, and thoughtful book. Starting with the Buddha’s metaphor of…
Waking Up is a Revolutionary Act: A Manifesto for Mindful Living, Part Four: Be Impeccable
By
Dr. Arnie Kozak
The point of life is that there is no point. We are biological beings equipped with impulses, intelligences, and insights that interplay with recent human creations such as language, culture, religions, and the arts. With memory, relics, and writing, we have history. Culture attempts to tell us what the point of life is, but in…
Boredom and Mindfulness
By
Dr. Arnie Kozak
I caught some of On Point today and the topic was boredom and the book by Peter Toohey, entitled, Boredom: A Lively History. Here is an excerpt: Predictability, monotony and confinement are all key. Any situation that stays the same for too long can be boring. Road trips, gardening and – my own special bête…
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