THE WATERFALL OF PEACEWe often say that meditation practice is about the development of peace. By peace, we mean the experience of being precisely on the dot, which cools down the jumpiness of our minds and the heat of our emotional neurosis. Experiencing this precision is analogous to sitting under a waterfall and letting a cool mountain stream p...
Do affirmations work?I've always had issues with affirmations. I first encountered them in Louise Hay'sYou Can Heal Your Life, a book whose "big idea" is that our emotions create the root cause of all physical ailments. The book lists a number of physical illnesses and the supposed emotional cause behind each one, along with an affirmatio...
KINDLING FOR ANGER
Posted by Paul DiSegna
on July 20, 2016
Shantideva says a lot about our mindset. The mindset of friend and foe. Like and dislike. For me and against me. And how that very mechanism of buying so tightly into this notion of the good people and the bad people—the ones that I like and the ones I don't like—and how we get so invested in this and how this is "the kindling"...
