Meditation admin | 20 Aug 2009
For today’s meditation, let’s turn to American novelist and short story writer, Willa Cather, who tells us how to be happy… That is happiness: to be dissolved into something complete and great. You are already complete and great. Right now. In this very moment. But you most likely don’t realize your completeness and greatness because [...]
Books &Meditation &Self Improvement admin | 11 Aug 2009
I’ve been swamped with putting on the final touches of my 21 Days to Health & Beyond detox diet and rejuvenation program the past week, and I’m still buried today in last minute details for tomorrow’s launch. But I do want to share a quick quote here on the blog to keep the cobwebs from [...]
Meditation admin | 27 Jul 2009
For this week”s meditation, we visit my wise friend Confucius, who so correctly observed… To be wronged is nothing unless you continue to remember it. This week, focus on letting go of all those instances when you were wronged in life by somebody or something. Here’s a simple way to let go… Take three or [...]
Meditation admin | 13 Jul 2009
For this week’s meditation, we turn to one of the classic Zen masters, Huang Po, who tells us… Q: What is the Way and how must it be followed? A: What sort of “thing” do you suppose the Way to be, that you should wish to “follow” it? Old Huang, he’s great, isn’t he? Take [...]
Meditation admin | 05 Jul 2009
For this week”s meditation, we turn to American Zen master Alan Watts, who wrote… I have realized that the past and the future are real illusions, that they exist only in the present, which is what there is and all there is. Oh, so true. Join me in the present moment, won’t you? Take a [...]
Meditation &Music admin | 24 Jun 2009
For this week”s meditation, we turn to the late, great jazz musician, Charlie Parker, who wrote… Music is your own experience, your thoughts, your wisdom. If you don’t live it, it won’t come out your horn. Your life is an on-going symphony of music, but I bet you’ve rarely slowed down and been still enough [...]
Meditation admin | 18 Jun 2009
For this week’s meditation on how to just be, we turn an ear to Robert Linssen, author of Living Zen, who writes… Being incapable of conjugating the verb “to be,” we conjugate instead the verb “to have.” But as the verb “to have” can lead us nowhere for nothing lasting can be acquired, we seek [...]
Meditation admin | 12 Jun 2009
For this week’s meditation on how to do without, we turn to one of my favorite Russian writers, Feodor Dostoyevsky, who keenly points out… Wealth is the number of things one can do without. I don’t know about you, but as I grow older (I’m 61 years old as I write these words in June [...]
Meditation &Pets admin | 31 May 2009
For this week’s meditation, we turn to an old Chinese proverb… Keep a green tree in your heart and perhaps a songbird will come. A songbird of peace will come to you right now. Here’s how to make it happen… Take a deep breath. Hold for a second. Exhale slowly and start to focus inwardly. [...]
Meditation &Self Improvement admin | 22 May 2009
For this week”s meditation, we once again turn East to learn from Chuang-Tzu, who wrote… As regards the quietude of the sage, he is not quiet because quietness is said to be good. He is quiet because the multitude of things cannot disturb his quietude. This week, focus on not letting the multitude of things [...]