See If You Can Give Yourself Gifts

There Is Just This Moment. We Are Not Trying To Improve Or To Get Anywhere Else.

Just Stopping, Is A Radical Act Of Sanity And Love.

Societal Transformation Isn't Going To Happen In One Month, One Year, Or Even One Lifetime. But We See It Happen Person By Person In Front Of Us, And We Don't Have To Worry About The Future If We're Taking Care Of The Present. In Some Sense, That's The Best Insurance Policy We Can Have.

One Way To Look At Meditation Is As A Kind Of Intrapsychic Technology That's Been Developed Over Thousands Of Years By Traditions That Know A Lot About The Mind/body Connection.

Another Way To Look At Meditation Is To View Thinking Itself As A Waterfall, A Cascading Of Thought. In Cultivating Mindfulness, We Are Going Beyond Or Behind Our Thinking, Much The Way You Might Find A Vantage Point In A Cave Or Depression In The Rock Behind A Waterfall. We Still See And Hear The Water, But We Are Out Of The Torrent.