When I visualize “The Noise in my Head,” the first thing that comes to my mind is clutter and chaos in the outside world that I can’t control. My mind starts racing about what I should do or can do, and it can become overwhelming very quickly. One thing that helps me rein in my […]
Read More →Category: Recovery Dharma
Life is a Dance Meditation – from Alan Watts
Life is a Dance Alan Watts: Life Is Not a Journey The existence, the physical universe is basically playful. There is no necessity for it whatsoever. It isn’t going anywhere. That is to say, it doesn’t have some destination that it ought to arrive at. But that it is best understood by the analogy with […]
Read More →FOMO Meditation
FOMO – what’s missing? As I’ve been doing for my last few meditations, I’m taking things that I’ve read or concepts I’ve learned that have made a difference in building my “recovery” foundation … and it’s actually more LIFE foundation … The single most important part of my recovery has been changing a deprivation mindset […]
Read More →Meditation on Urgency
Glad to be here while Julia & Loh are gone. Even before we started on the topic of patience, I had been experiencing these little triggers/glimmers … Something that keeps popping up for me is the concept of urgency. I had this idea about Urgency and how it pervades our being … One of the […]
Read More →The Labels we Take On
The Labels We Take On: How They Limit Our Potential – aka Watching our Language. First I’m going to read this, then we’ll move to a meditation on the subject. Article by Jeremy Scott Lambert on tinybuddha.com “Waking up to who you are requires letting go of who you imagine yourself to be.” ~Alan Watts […]
Read More →Samskaras
Nuggets from reading … Michael Singer – Untethered Soul & Living Unthethered … Both books have been profoundly helpful and an amazing complement to my Recovery Dharma practice. I love this Sangha and the mindfulness we learn, and these last few meditations are just tools to add to our arsenals. One nugget from the books […]
Read More →