Establishing Peace, Cultivating Wakefulness
Meditation entered the 21st century on August 4, 2003...read more
View ArticleMeditation and the Practice of Virtue
Establishing a meditative life can lead to a more settled and attentive mind, but to what end will you direct these capacities? If you are more attentive, to what will you direct your attention? If...
View ArticleMeditating our Emotions: Finding Martin Luther King
Google's new personal development course Search Inside Yourself combines meditation with an understanding of emotional intelligence. We too can benefit from contemplative engagement with our emotions,...
View ArticleToward a Contemplative Curriculum
Last night I welcomed thirty faculty from U.S. and Canadian colleges and universities to the opening session of a weeklong gathering on Contemplative Curriculum Development.read more
View ArticleMeditation and Mortality: Practice and Parkinson's
The diagnosis came a few months ago; I had stage one Parkinson's disease. The most prominent symptom was a persistent resting tremor in my right hand. I had been meditating for many years, and now I...
View ArticleToward an Integrative Science of Mind
Meditation offers us a unique resource for examining the mind first-hand. When joined with the third-person methods of neuroscience, we have the possibility for the first time of creating a science...
View ArticleBreathing Light: a Yoga of the Senses
All absolute perception is religious.Novalisread more
View ArticlePracticing Friendship
Rumi wrote, "Our friendship is made of being awake." How can we learn to be more awake to each other, and thereby strengthen our experience of friendship and love?read more
View ArticleMeditation and Art
Only after long contemplative looking could Rilke finally truly see Cezanne's paintings; he remarked that suddenly he had "the right eyes." Meditation creates new ways of seeing ourselves and our...
View ArticleThinking Like Einstein
Learning to think like Einstein: Einstein's genius was, in part, his ability to sustain his attention for long periods of time on a single question. This is what the Dalai Lama calls "analytic...
View ArticleContemplative Dimensions of Leadership
The truly great societal and economic transformations occurred because someone was awake, profoundly awake, not because they were following a strategic plan. How can we awaken ourselves and keep...
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