Our teacher for this week has been Sharon Salzberg, and her own description of herself is, “I call myself a meditation teacher rather than a spiritual teacher.” Meditation really IS Sharon’s specialty, and for today’s message I have a sizable collection of her thoughts on meditation, and I’ve divided it into three themes for you: … Continue reading Meditation is the ultimate mobile device.
“Meditation isn’t about what’s happening; it’s about how you relate to what’s happening.” - Sharon Salzberg "We can't control what thoughts and emotions arise within us, nor can we control the universal truth that everything around us changes. But we can learn to step back and rest in the awareness of what's happening. That awareness … Continue reading Like Superman, you can turn vision into your superpower.
A message from today's meditation: Don't give up if you haven't felt it yet. Once your heart has burst wide open, you know what the presence of light within you feels like. If you've felt it once, you can feel it again. "By practicing meditation we establish love, compassion, sympathetic joy & equanimity as our … Continue reading Don’t give up, your heart beats just like mine does, it is available to you too!
Happiness... Today's message from Sharon Salzberg shines the light on the very human “search for happiness” and why it seems so elusive, and here are three points that she makes: We tend to search for it in all the wrong places.No amount of accumulated things and experiences will ever bring us the happiness we seek.We'll … Continue reading We spend our lives searching for something we think we don’t have.
This morning’s meditation is called 'Focus', with the specific goal of improving focus and concentration. "Meditation teaches us to focus and to pay clear attention to our experiences and responses as they arise, and to observe them without judging them." - Sharon Salzberg "Meditation is not a matter of trying to stop thinking or make … Continue reading Is your own judgement the weight that holds you down?
A message from today's meditation: Finding surrender. I know that this can be a difficult concept to grasp. Surrender 'sounds' like giving up, like it's the end of the road, but please give it a try - surrender is really a new beginning. Surrender leads to clarity. It leads to seeing, and when we actually … Continue reading How to find clarity before taking action.
A message from today's meditation: We have a new teacher for this week in the person of Sharon Salzberg, and I’m using her words of wisdom to set my own intentions for this week: "I am willing to try again."One breath at a time.""I'll plant the seeds and water them even if I can't be … Continue reading Trust in the unfolding.
