You really are somewhere very specific, but perhaps believe you shouldn’t be. That is so odd to consider. Why would someone doubt reality? The attachment to the surface we’re on, right now (chair, couch, bed, floor, ground), is just as absolute as the attachment of our ribs to our spine. The surface is undeniably that […]
Tag: Buddhism
Mindful Reality and the Coronavirus
I am thinking about my readers, those who have found my writing helpful in the past, whether you have read my books or just enjoyed my blogging. It is a time of buckling down to practices that soothe and bring us out of unnecessary mental stress. Easier said than done, I know, however, it is […]
All Ideas Are Only Thoughts
Whether it be hope of an enduring democracy, a relationship we believed would last, or what we thought we should eat for lunch, all ideas are always only thoughts in our mind. The only real events that will or should ever occur, by any body, are those that physically do in real time. The only […]
Action Versus Doing: The Sentence Game
What is action? I view action as a sentence we can make to describe our body in the space right now. For example, I am sitting in a chair typing on the computer. That is my current action. Though we call it the present tense, this action can only be acknowledged after the fact of […]
The Answer to All Our Problems
Fall is coming here in Maine. I can feel it. It’s been a few weeks I can sense the change; although we will still get some hot days this week. So interesting to have the evenings and nights cooler. There is a mixed feeling of pleasure and darkness with fall and winter around the corner. […]
Sharing the Path: My Tour of Mindfulness
Mindfulness has always come easily to me, or I should say I’ve been drawn to it for a long time. The concept of “what is” made sense to me in my early 20’s when having a discussion with my father about goals in life. We were having some conversation at my grandparent’s house, about what […]
Sharing the Path: Politics and Reality
I have often wondered how my background academic educational career in International Relations connects to the part of me that writes books on the body, mindfulness and philosophy. We are used to compartmentalizing different fields and pursuits instead of seeing them as part of a whole. It has only been in light of the recent […]
Sharing the Path: Guilt, Therapy and Self-Inquiry
As I have now been a self-published author for 6 years, have written two books and am 3 ½ years into my third, I would like to take this blog in a new direction. Thus far I have written in the style of the subject matters in my books. Being that there are many aspects […]
The Body in Real Time
I watch to see what this body does, without knowing what it will do. I marvel at the magic of movement. I fascinate at how there is always something it does. Something gets done in real time. That is what I did. That is what I do, nothing more, nothing less. It is OK […]
Under the Effort
Under our mental and muscular effort we see our body in the space, weight falling onto some surface, bones moving in some capacity. Under our mental and muscular effort we realize our body is already in some specific action, doing something. Under our mental and muscular effort we understand what real action is […]
