and simply let it be, without being attached to it or elaborating on it in any way. In other words, we don’t think about what comes up in our minds — we can just be aware of the thought. When you notice a sensation, feeling, or thought, you can let it be and gently return your attention to the present moment. If you feel happy, just notice that you feel happy without having an opinion about it. Similarly, if you feel sad, just feel sad. One of the most helpful mindfulness meditation instructions I ever received was to visualize thoughts as if they were bubbles floating in the air and to touch them gently with an imaginary feather so they burst, returning me to the pres... posted on May 3 2021 (58,699 reads)

And I’m wondering if you can talk a little bit about that and how it relates to your teachings on the Aramaic Jesus. NDK: Well, yes, that really is an essential feature of the way I teach, both in my seminars as well as the way that I present at the various programs that I’ve done for Sounds True. I found that because of the nature of this—and because, really, my work is about spiritual experience and trying to decode, if you will, Jesus’ way of prayer, his meditation and his spirituality—it’s important to give people some sense of how this could have felt. What would it mean? Not just in words, but what would it feel like. And so I’ve ... posted on Jul 28 2021 (7,319 reads)

18, 2015 “Drumming may be the oldest form of active meditation known to humanity.” What could meditation and drumming possibly have in common? I’ve been asking myself this question ever since I heard world-famous sound healing expert Jill Purce say “The purpose of sound is silence.” First, both meditation and drumming help us get out of our heads and into our hearts. They just go about it in different ways. In meditation, placing our attention on the breath occupies the mind. In drumming, the rhythm becomes a mantra that captures our attention. You can’t drum while thinking. Both act as mind sweepers; to clear the mental space of worries and n... posted on Sep 6 2022 (3,834 reads)

else's handcuffs too. There are those who use anger, sarcasm and parody to confront unjust action.  Pancho does it with just the simple -- and radical -- power of love.   If he had a superpower, that would be it.  He is a fearless soldier of compassion, unconditionally willing to hold up a fierce mirror of love.   For Pancho, the whole World, every moment, is his field of practice.  When he was recently asked what nourishes him, his response was clear: meditation and small acts of kindness.  Meditation deepens his awareness while small acts of kindness deepens his inter-connectedness.  Or as Pancho would sum it up, "Meditation is the ... posted on Nov 29 2011 (166,493 reads)

the ugliness of evil and have recognized that the wrongdoer has a nature related to my own -- not of the same blood or birth, but the same mind, and possessing a share of the divine. And so none of them can hurt me. Aurelius believed that all men are made to cooperate with one another, like the "rows of the upper and lower teeth." True peace comes from within. Many of us live frantic, high-octane lives -- and we may fantasize about getting away from it all by going on a meditation retreat or taking time off from work to travel. But, as Aurelius strongly believed, you don't need to escape your environment to find a sense of calm. We can access serenity any time in... posted on Mar 29 2014 (105,591 reads)

the east, even though I wasn’t born around any Chinese people and I grew up in a rural town in Ohio. My name “Wu De” actually means “of nothing” so it’s only fitting that I come from nowhere. When I was 2 years old, one of the first acts I did was write a letter to Santa Clause that I wanted a Chinese sister. Then again when I was 3 years and 4 years old I asked for the same thing. They finally gave me a doll. Later, a study of martial arts led to tea and meditation. At the end of next year, I will have spent half my life in Asia. Suzanne: Being that you laid deep roots and made it home, can you share with everyone what you feel in this moment that ... posted on Aug 5 2017 (9,629 reads)

stuff done, realize a potential, serve a cause, help a friend. The fact is, endless time is always there—ready to flood in whenever we have sense enough to lay down our perceived burdens. If I can give up for a moment the problems that seem so important, so immediate, so real, then I will find myself immersed in another order of reality—the world of sound, touch, taste, smell, and unrecognized feelings. That could be where joy begins. And while Endless Time can be like prayer or meditation, casting off the cares of the day for a private moment of quiet in the back room, the funny thing is that this wider space can open just as easily on a crowded subway platform where a mass ... posted on Aug 29 2017 (19,844 reads)

Brownie camera. Anybody have a camera like that? Ms. Tippett: Rest in peace, Kodak, right? [laughs] Ms. Halifax: Remember that, those little boxes with the little gray button on the side, the thumb button with the ridges? You remember that camera? And I started taking photographs, and it’s been a lifelong joy for me. It’s not about being a photographer, but it was about seeing inside. Ms. Tippett: And then you’ve described discovering Buddhism and meditation in your 20s as another experience of learning to see inside, then, in a different way. Ms. Halifax: You know, Krista, to link it back to this childhood opportunity I was given, my f... posted on Jan 23 2018 (15,884 reads)

follows is the edited transcript of an Awakin Call with Giang. You can listen to the recording here. Xiao: Today I'm very excited to be moderating this phone call. Giang came to America for graduate school, went back to Vietnam and a year later she discovered the amazing path for herself to serve the community. I really admire Giang's effort to go back and do the magic. How are you, Giang, today? Giang: Me? I am happy. It happened that I am also at a retreat, a meditation retreat in a national park this weekend. So I just feel wonderful. Xiao: Wow. I'm very happy that you are taking time for yourself. It must be a long day for you. The first ques... posted on Sep 5 2018 (3,667 reads)

what to do and what not to do if we want to stay poised and upright when life gets turbulent. [You can listen to the audio of this podcast here.] TAMI SIMON: Welcome to the Michael Singer Podcast. Michael Singer is the author of two widely influential New York Times bestsellers, The Untethered Soul and The Surrender Experiment, both considered modern classics on the spiritual journey. Michael Singer lives and teaches at the Temple of the Universe, the yoga and meditation center he founded in 1975, near Gainesville, Florida. Produced in partnership with Shanti Publications, the Michael Singer Podcast brings you select recordings from Michael Singer... posted on Dec 31 1969 (108 reads)

how terrible that relationship was, and that person betrayed me,” and so suddenly you’re now overlaying a memory onto something? It’s not necessarily bubbling up from within your body. JF: Yes. It’s a challenging process, but oftentimes I think what people find with some training is they realize, “Oh, I’m completely in a story right now.” Then the invitation, again, is to come back to that felt sense. But again oftentimes, when people practice meditation, when they practice an active inquiry process like this, into what’s between them and feeling free—as you start to un-peel the onion, there could be very painful memories in the... posted on Aug 1 2022 (4,255 reads)

practice as a theme for the first season of our new podcast Creating Our Own Lives. The 10 voices in this hour were originally drawn out by her. We’ll end with Olympic gold medalist Billy Mills. We begin with Christina Torres. MS. TORRES: My name is Christina Torres, and I’m originally from southern California, but I now live in Honolulu, Hawaii. MS. TIPPETT: Christina is many things — a teacher, a writer, a Mexipina. She calls running her “moving meditation.” MS. TORRES: Pretty much towards the end of college and the beginning of my teaching career, I had actually never run more than a mile. I hated running. I was always really b... posted on Aug 30 2016 (10,705 reads)

I rest there again. If I can manage it, I rest there again. And so that dropping in for me is a returning. People get weirded out by the term “self” and they go, “Wait a minute. Is there a self?” I’m not getting into that. I’m just talking about in this physiological being that there is a point of returning to myself that I find clarifies the external goings on including the external goings on of my mind. TS: Rev. angel, you’re a gorgeous meditation teacher and I wonder if, as part of this, you could actually guide us, guide our listeners right now in that practice that you just described related to resting in our belly. And part of it... posted on Jan 18 2022 (3,928 reads)

following is an excerpt from Golden: The Power of Silence in a World of Noise, May 2022, Harper Wave Publishers Navigating Noise Over the past fifty years, mindfulness meditation has taken a remarkable journey from remote monasteries of Burma and Thailand to the pinnacles of mainstream power—places like Apple, Google, GE, and the Pentagon. While some of this rise is attributable to increasing openness to new mindsets and worldviews since the revolutions of the 1960's, we believe the biggest reason for its newfound popularity is straightforward: There is a deep yearning for silence in a world of more and more noise. Whether we consciously realize it or not, we sense that p... posted on Oct 4 2022 (3,148 reads)

Nine Gateways to Presence. So what’s the connection between personality, whatever our personality type might be, and presence, the personality type being a gateway to presence? Russ Hudson: Yes. Well, I think when we look at where the Enneagram comes from—the origin summit, the original sensibility—it was part of a series of tools or orientations, that were used by people in contemplative life, let’s say. They were people involved in ongoing prayer and meditation and so, the underlying basis of these personality patterns were originally seen as habitual distractions or vexations. What sort of screws up your practice when you’re trying to get c... posted on Apr 7 2023 (6,153 reads)

When Google allowed engineers to spend 20% of their time pursuing their passion, Meng decided to spend his time on a cause dear to his heart: Launching a conspiracy to bring about world peace. The conspirators could well be called the compassionati.  Meng believes that world peace can be achieved -- but only if people cultivate the conditions for inner peace within themselves. Inner peace, in turn, comes from nurturing emotional intelligence through the practice of mindfulness and meditation. Working with Zen masters, meditation teachers, psychologists and even a CEO, Meng created a seven-week personal growth program named -- what else -- Search Inside Yourself (SIY). Launched ... posted on Jul 11 2012 (21,343 reads)

value, including bringing the idea of surrender to social and environmental activism. Tami Simon (TS): You're listening to Insights at the Edge. Today, my guest is Michael Singer. Michael Singer is the author of the number one New York Times bestseller The Untethered Soul and The Surrender Experiment. In 1971, while pursuing his doctoral work in economics, Michael experienced a deep inner awakening and went into seclusion to focus on yoga and meditation. In 1975, he founded the Temple of the Universe, a yoga and meditation center where people of any religion or set of beliefs can come together to experience inner peace. Through the years, ... posted on Dec 22 2017 (46,927 reads)

True, one of the largest publishers of spiritual wisdom, especially of original audio programs and online classes. You publish many of the leading teachers in spirituality and mindfulness. I’m interested in how the company came into being and also in the way you conduct Sounds True as a spiritual and conscious business. Tami Simon (TS): Sounds True began in 1985. I was 22 at the time, had dropped out of Swarthmore College at the end of my sophomore year, and spent a year studying meditation in Sri Lanka, India, and Nepal. I connected deeply to the practices and wanted to introduce them to others so they too could have access to these powerful practices through personal, direct... posted on Nov 24 2018 (6,219 reads)

the most feared lobbyist. In talking about St. John’s, you used the term monastery a few times. Like a monastery for learning. Was it in this point of time intellectual, but contemplation is a bit deeper than that. Was there spirituality starting to infuse at any point? Lee: There was. There definitely was. You know I come out of the 60s and this stuff was all starting to get mixed together. I was starting to read Eastern things. Back in the 70s, I got involved with transcendental meditation. I had friends who were doing that. And even the intellectual part when I was at St. John’s. We read a lot of religious thinkers and I started to think about what this all means in a ... posted on Dec 28 2019 (6,800 reads)

in nature, just canoeing and ice skating and sports too. Yeah, I just felt mystical all the time. Now when I was 12 years old, I got polio and they couldn't tell me if I'd ever walk again. But when I did get my legs back after, I don't know, a year or so, I remember saying to the universe, I'll never take my legs for granted again. And to me, that's a very mystical statement, even though I was 12 or 13 years old. And that is not to take for granted. So, that's what meditation is about isn't it? When you meditate on breath, when you pay attention to your breath, you're no longer taking it for granted. And breath is pretty primal. And if you're pres... posted on Sep 8 2022 (3,042 reads)