Simply put, mindfulness is moment-to-moment non-judgmental awareness.

Indian, Chinese, Japanese, Vietnamese, Tibetan, or other historical traditions, are all different streams in the same river, different currents in the same ocean. With the long view, we can trust that the seeds that we're planting are transforming the world.

If we are honest with ourselves, most of us will have to admit that we live out our lives in an ocean of fear.

Breathing is central to every aspect of meditation training. It's a wonderful place to focus in training the mind to be calm and concentrated.

Even though in principle we may "know better", we routinely succumb all the same to the incessant, often frantic and unexamined busyness of thinking we have to get somewhere else first before we can rest; thinking we need to get certain things done to feel we have accomplished something before we can be happy.

He who dies before he dies does not die when he dies.

In any given moment we are either practicing mindfulness, or defacto, we are practicing mindlessness.