I am convinced that I would benefit from the daily practice of meditation, in spite of the fact that I have never actually developed that daily practice. Thousands of research papers, clinical studies, meditation teachers, and every day folk who merely practice meditation, talk about the myriad of benefits that can be experienced through […]
Category: #spirituality
What is happiness?
Last night at in our Spanish conversation group our topic of conversation was … What is happiness? As expected there were various responses to this profound question … each person has their own idea about what constitutes happiness. Some of the ideas include: Happiness is having good friends.Happiness is achievement.Happiness is financial security.Happiness is having […]
12 Mindful Movements
The following 12 mindful movements are adapted from the seminal work of Vietnamese Buddhist monk Thich Nhat Hanh. He developed 10 mindful movements that he and his friends have been doing many years, but I changed a few and added a few movements to make the series more amenable to my body … specifically, to […]
I don’t mean to brag, but …
Last night we went to bed at our normal time (around 9:00 PM), and this morning I woke up when my mind and body were ready. I don’t mean to brag, but by 6:30 AM this morning I had already gone on a long bike ride up the hills around our house, practiced my Spanish […]
Pay in Advance
God is the administrator of justice in this temporal life and in the eternal life beyond. I’d like to say that again, but in a slightly different way. There is one life … experienced both temporally and eternally, and God’s sovereign justice infuses it all. And I gotta believe that true justice is really that […]