Everyday Mindfulness
A blog focused on practicing mindfulness in the context of the everyday challenges of being human, drawing upon Buddhist teachings and my own experience.
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Awakenings (opens the original)
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Discussions of meditation and Buddhism often include the idea of awakening or enlightenment as being the end goal, the thing that we wish to attain through our practice. Because of this there can be a tendency to reify the idea of awakening so it becomes just another form of striving for a different identity, the ultimate peak experience on our spiritual bucket list.But in truth, awakening is happening all the time in both large and small ways and we can train ourselves to notice it. It can be h
Awareness is Not What It Knows (opens the original)
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Awareness is one of the most miraculous things about being alive. Think about it. Without awareness, we would know nothing. We would not know the trees, the sky, the mountains, the stars, the eyes of our beloved, the laughter of children. Or love, fear, anger, or joy. This isn’t just about sense consciousness either. Awareness as I am using the term is the experience that we can be aware that we are aware. And yet, what is this awareness? One of the insights that can arise when we consistently s
Taking Refuge (opens the original)
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Refuge: a condition of being safe or sheltered from pursuit, danger, or trouble.There is so much vulnerability in our world. Wars, famines, oppression, political instability, economic insecurity, climate change, and other types of suffering caused by greed, hatred and ignorance. But even when our life circumstances seem ideal, things are unreliable. Everything is changing, after all, we are buffeted by stress and uncertainty, and the impersonal nature of events beyond our control keeps us foreve
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