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Monday, 12 September 2011 has been designated “Mindfulness Day” by Wisdom Publications. For more information click here. While everyday should be a mindfulness day, it is great to see the growing recognition of mindfulness in the public consciousness. If you are not familiar with Wisdom Publications, they are a small non-profit publisher located in Boston…

You can meditate anytime anywhere. You don’t need any special conditions. Wherever you are right now is just fine. You can be in a crowded train, or waiting for a bus, or in a quiet cloister. All of these geographies are equally compatible with practice. And meditation can occur in any moment. You don’t have…

Meditation is not religion. Or at least it doesn’t have to be. All religions have a meditative tradition, but meditation is just about paying attention to what is happening now. Religion doesn’t own attention. You do. Meditation is not necessarily spiritual either. There is a strong tradition of secular meditation in the West that started…

The 4th of July will be celebrated around the United States to mark our independence from the British. And while that event happened on 4 July 1776, 231 years ago, have we achieved all the independence we can? Like most holidays, I have an issue with this one. Why only celebrate one day per year?…
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