To be clear from the start, whatever the process is that anyone is pointing to when they talk about mindfulness, it is not that. The actual experience that one is referring to in discussing mindfulness or awareness cannot be described. Such is the conundrum posed in trying to present such a topic. Read More
As I was walking through the park the other day I began a conversation with a man who eventually told me he was dying of cancer. He had this cancer, he explained, because he was too stressed, too worried, too agitated. He described being troubled by almost everything he saw around him and even though he knew it wasn’t good for him, even though he believed there was nothing he could do to correct these concerns, he could not stop worrying and fretting.
I wondered about this for a long while after I left him. Could it be true that there was nothing he could do to help himself? Read More
The answer to the question as to “who, or what am I?” is a complicated one. But it is primarily complicated by a confused, though perfectly normal way of perceiving reality that is almost impossible to see for oneself . This article aims to clarify one source of this confusion. Read More