Letting Go vs. Softening
In meditation, the suggestion to ‘let go’ can seem a bit abstract, a little either/or. Softening, on the other hand, is different. You can’t get it wrong.
‘Meditation’ at Psychology, Philosophy and Real Life
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Meditation Instructions: Who’s Guiding Whom?
Guided meditations have never been my thing. I’ve generally found them cringey, annoying, or simply superfluous to requirements — the very antithesis of the experience I was having, or wanted to have.
Meditating, Mindfulness and Excuses
My conviction is this: whatever you actually manage to do, with the sincere intention to improve your life, will work. There really is no shortage of methods. The trick is in managing to do the thing, whatever it is.
What is the Natural State?
The natural state of being with myself, others and everything else, the way I am when circumstances allow, is like being plugged into the current of life.
Stop Suppressing Your Potential
How can we best tweak and optimise our mental machinery for peak performance? Drugs and some forms of meditation are offered as means to the goal. But what if ‘savant’ skills were actually in some sense our mind’s default, before we all got so educated, and so distracted?
The Heart Sutra and the Neuroscientist
The neurosurgeon and the Buddhist practitioner are both intimate with the reality that between the atoms of the electrochemical dance of the brain lies an emptiness of anything at all which is solid and unchangeable, anything on which to lean. How to live in such a world?
Creative Regeneration
Bathing in my own attention, my breath, exercising the ‘coming back’ muscle whenever I get distracted, is what I call basic meditation. Every moment in this state is a moment of creative regeneration.