Determinism – Jill Eng

July 1, 2021July 25, 2021jilleng

Summer Offerings

Hi All, It has been a while since I last posted. Strange year for us all! I am still working slowly yet consistently on my third book and some other related projects (I have been building an online course on Mindful Reality and am contemplating turning the 100+ Blog posts accumulated on this site into […]

August 4, 2019March 4, 2020jilleng

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 […]

July 19, 2019July 19, 2019jilleng

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 […]

April 24, 2019jilleng

The Things We Have To Do

We have to do what we are doing, the things we see ourselves doing, where our body is, now, its physical, weighted placement in space, bones moving at joints, how and as they do: this action, these actions. It can be only those, not others. Can’t know why, just the way it is, all of […]

April 11, 2019jilleng

True Nature

True nature is what is, not what we believe should be (if it’s not what’s happening). We must abide. There are no options other than what nature provides. Bad guys are part of nature. They exist equally to all else. When they will be gone, we will know because we will see. Movement is movement. It all […]

March 7, 2019jilleng

Alan Watts: short and sweet

This is a wonderful little clip that describes precisely what I write about in my books and on this blog. I hope you will have a listen! Book Information

April 28, 2018April 28, 2018jilleng

Actions Are Involuntary

Involuntary. What do I mean? I mean that the event occurs without a will. How can we prove this? Because all our bodily movements occur, from our perspective, no differently than our breath or heartbeat. They’re just happening, and they are our only actions. Actions feel like something mental, so that is how we identify […]

April 24, 2018jilleng

It Is Easy to Know What We Should Be Doing

It is easy to know what we should be doing with our life, how we should be spending our time. It is as effortless as identifying the weather. Do we ever consider what the weather today “should” be? Or, do we accept it as is, grasping that there are no options for the conditions of […]

April 19, 2018jilleng

The Present Tense

We are born into the present tense. It is then the present tense for the rest of our life. From our perspective, we live in one long moment because we cannot sense the shifts of what we think of as one moment changing into the next. We can only perceive this moment. Those incremental differences […]

April 10, 2018jilleng

Can “I” Be Somewhere My Body Is Not?

My work is based on the fact that “I” must be where my body is at all times. Is there a separate “me” from this organism called Jill Eng? Some might argue so in philosophic and religious circles, but I do not see a way around nondualism. When struggling with emotions of frustration, fear, worry, […]