The term satipaṭṭhāna can be explained as a compound of sati, “mindfulness” or “awareness”, and upaṭṭhāna, with the u of the latter term dropped by vowel elision. The Pāli term upaṭṭhāna literally means “placing near”,...

The process of applying Mindfulness Burnout Prevention (MBP) in the workplace or any environment has a much more far-reaching effect than simply accessing equanimity throughout the vicissitudes of life. Continuous learning helps us to stay...

Sometimes you need to sit lonely on the floor in a quiet room in order to hear your own voice and not let it drown in the noise of others.

Past, I am letting you go; future, I will see you tomorrow; present, I love you, live in you, use you and never let you go.

Deep inside of you is a ‘Guru’ with the wisdom of the entire Universe!

Hope, positive wonders.

Food and eating often mask our pain, our inner longing for God, for acceptance. It is key to know our motivation for eating as well as for other actions. Why do I eat? Am I...

We too should make ourselves empty, that the great soul of the universe may fill us with its breath.

Indicating his twisted legs without a trace of self-pity or bitterness, as if they belonged to all of us, he casts his arms wide to the sky and the snow mountains, the high sun and...

Meditation trains the mind the way physical exercise strengthens the body.

Baseless victimhood is usually the last stage before outright aggression.

WHY PARADIGMS MATTERIdeas drive results. People’s beliefs drive their actions. Actions that stem from a simple, complete and accurate paradigm result in personal fulfillment, harmonious relationships, and economic prosperity.Actions based on false, incomplete and inaccurate...

But work is life only when done in mindfulness. otherwise, one becomes life the person “who lives as though dead.” We need to light our own torch in order to carry on. But the life...

In the ancient Indian Pali language, the words for mind and heart are the same. And the Chinese character for mindfulness is a combination of two characters. One part means now and the other means...

You cannot control the results, only your actions.

Right where you are, the potential of the universe is.

Most of us take for granted that time flies, meaning that it passes too quickly. But in the mindful state, time doesn’t really pass at all. There is only a single instant of time that...

Learning how to think’ really means learning how to exercise some control over how & what you think. It means being conscious & aware enough to choose what you pay attention to & to choose...

Awareness is bliss.

…but we’re not being educated in how to be, only in how to accomplish. So it’s all about acquisition, about getting stuff we don’t have…As soon as you realize it’s a thought pattern, you can...

In the 1991 movie City Slickers, Jack Palance gives Billy Crystal some profoundly simple advice. When Crystal asks him the secret of life, Palance holds up a forefinger, answers with a single word: “One.”Choose one...

…In this way that he sought to control the very passage of his life, deftly and without forethought, yet precisely and with enormous care. Part of it was to allow what was enormous, what was...

Write that novel, sail that boat. And if you can’t, immerse yourself in the fantasy, be the ultimate dabbler, just enjoy what it is you enjoy. It’ll help you get well if you’re going to...

Every moment is utterly unique and will not be continued in eternity. This fact gives life its poignancy and should concentrate your attention on what you are experiencing now.

When we practice metta, we open continuously to the truth of our actual experience, changing our relationship to life.

I’ve no interest in being thought provoking. Who needs more thoughts. I’d rather go down as one who is thought disposing.

Mindfulness meditation doesn’t change life. Life remains as fragile and unpredictable as ever. Meditation changes the heart’s capacity to accept life as it is. It teaches the heart to be more accommodating, not by beating...

Feelings, whether of compassion or irritation, should be welcomed, recognized, and treated on an absolutely equal basis; because both are ourselves. The tangerine I am eating is me. The mustard greens I am planting are...

The important thing in our understanding is to have a smooth, free-thinking way of observation. We have to think and to observe things without stagnation. We should accept things as they are without difficulty. Ou...

The immense distance between God and humanity is the indispensable backdrop to a Christian idea of revelation. To reduce God to the level of human thought and human imagination, so that we can comprehend God,...

The reason why many people remain on the bottom is because they play to ‘not lose’, as opposed to playing to win at all costs.

It is impossible to control outcomes or results, although most of us have been programmed from a very young age to believe otherwise. The idea that we can perform actual ‘magic’ causes tremendous dysfunction, unnecessary...

point of power.

While the opportunity to improve yourself and your situation is a great thing, our striving to build perfect lives seems to have morphed into perfectionism so focused on itself that we forget about others in...

True happiness, we are told, consists in getting out of one’s self; but the point is not only to get out – you must stay out; and to stay out you must have some absorbing...

Our ultimate goal is to be fully present for life. It takes practice

Few of us ever live in the present. We are forever anticipating what is to come or remembering what has gone.

I would like people to remember of me, howinexhaustible was her mindfulness.

Caregiving will never be one-size-fits-all.

Life is not about what happened yesterday nor what will happen tomorrow,it’s about this particular moment!

Buddha first taught metta meditation as an antidote: as a way of surmounting terrible fear when it arises.

Each place is the right place–the place where I now am can be a sacred space. (3)

We have negative mental habits that come up over and over again. One of the most significant negative habits we should be aware of is that of constantly allowing our mind to run off into...

Mindfulness promises a great number of desirable benefits, and is based on much more solid research than many competing ideas on how to change people.

Like a child standing in a beautiful park with his eyes shut tight, there’s no need to imagine trees, flowers, deer, birds, and sky; we merely need to open our eyes and realize what is...

Without the ability to be present we are missing much of what the adventure has to offer.

A close examination of the instructions in the Satipaṭṭhāna Sutta reveals that the meditator is never instructed to interfere actively with what happens in the mind. If a mental hindrance arises, for example, the task...

The human brain is incredible in its capacity to heal and rewire itself. The human brain can be shaped and trained to be more resilient, calm, compassionate and alert—we can condition ourselves to be successful....

…there is something very vital happening when we breathe—without it we die—but trying to speed it up, force it, grasp it, push it away or control it tends to get in the way. As in...

Although social and personal circumstances will play their part in contributing to how an individual suffers, in Buddhist thought blame is seen as a “poison” that will only lead to negative actions and will do...