Just watch this moment, without trying to change it at all. What is happening? What do you feel? What do you see? What do you hear?

"What is my job on the planet?" is one question we might do well to ask ourselves over and over again. Otherwise, we may wind up doing somebody else's job and not even know it. And what's more, that somebody else might be a figment of our own imagination, and maybe a prisoner of it as well.

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.

In Asian languages, the word for mind and the word for heart are the same word.

Mindfulness is a way to rebalance ourselves. Instead of being lost in thought, or caught up in emotional upheaval, we can tip the scale in the direction of greater equanimity, clarity, wisdom, and self-compassion by actually learning how to inhabit that other dimension of our being.

When awareness embraces the senses, it enlivens them.

It is indeed a radical act of love just to sit down and be quiet for a time by yourself.