Category: Meditation practices
Surprises on the Way
Is there a way we can extend and deepen these moments of awakened mind that coexist with our confusion? Or even just notice them when they occur? That’s the point of Buddhist meditation, which is never about doing or creating anything. We simply rest in everything as it is. It sounds so easy, yet nothing is more profound or mysterious.
Returning Home
Thich Nhat Hanh offers a guided meditation to relax our body and mind and return to the here and now. Fully present, fully alive, we find we are already home. Do you remember anything from your stay in your mother’s womb? All of us spent about nine months there. That’s quite a long time. I believe…
Waiting. Waiting. For What?
Meditation, then, can show us our true and genuine life, with its freedom, its abundant creativity, and its joy.
Walking With St Francis
Gretel Ehrlich walks in the footsteps of St. Francis through the Umbrian countryside and ponders the life of a saint who was "radical without bitterness, vital yet gentle, dramatic—even outrageous at times—without narcissism."
Mind at Peace, Body in Balance
A look at healing meditations developed by Tulku Thondup Rinpoche, author of The Healing Power of Mind.
Healing Light
Always when we call upon light, we need to visualize an image or presence, to feel its positive qualities, and to believe in its power to heal.