Tag Archives: Meditation

Keep It Simple

Today I’m sharing a helpful technique from Chogyam Trungpa on how to meditate while doing things that would seem trivial… If you pour a cup of tea, you are aware of extending your arm and touching your hand to the … Continue reading

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Tao Te Ching Meditation

I haven’t posted a good meditation lately, so let meĀ  make up for that lapse right now. For today’s meditation, we turn east to Tao Te Ching, The Book of the Way, where we learn… I have just three things … Continue reading

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Flowing Water Meditation

I have a short but sweet flowing water meditation for you this week. Don’t overlook trying this one because it’s so simple. My experience in life is that simple usually turns out much better than complicated. Anyway, we start with … Continue reading

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Snowflake Meditation

For this week’s meditation, we turn to a wonderful Zen saying… No snowflake ever falls in the wrong place. Meditate on this observation during the coming week whenever something feels wrong in your life. Here’s how to do it. When … Continue reading

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Still Mind Meditation

For this week’s meditation we turn to a classic Taoist saying… To the mind that is still, the whole universe surrenders. Would you like to experience what it’s like when the universe surrenders? You would? Great. Here’s how to have … Continue reading

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How to Be Happy

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. … Continue reading

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Confucius Says

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 … Continue reading

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What is the Way?

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 … Continue reading

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Alan Watts Meditation

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 … Continue reading

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A Music Meditation

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 … Continue reading

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