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My dharma brother Shinzen Young has some sage advice for sleeping here is his blog: Help for Insomnia: Yet Another use for Mindfulness. He recommends what I call “Beditation.” If you can’t sleep than you can use the sleep window for mindfulness practice. As Shinzen points out this “rest” can be as restorative as sleep. We…

I often wonder over the state of the world trying to understand why things are the way they are. The Buddha was right: greed, hatred, and delusion are the sources of suffering. This applies to the world as well. I was thinking the other day, “What would the world be like if all the money…

I am back from teaching Mindfulness A-Z: Liberating Regret, Stuckness, and Perfectionism at the Kripalu Center for Yoga and Health. One insight that arose during the week was that “grief is the admission price to the present moment.” We are often stuck because we are not ready to move through the strong emotion of grief. We…

I’ve been thinking a lot about regret, stuckness, and perfectionism leading up to my Kripalu workshop that starts on Sunday. Regret is a variant of stuckness. We are locked into the past, replaying a loop of a past event, usually where we have done something we perceive as wrong, shameful, or, well, regrettable. Perfectionism is…
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