Tag: jon kabat-zinn
Neptune enters Pisces: The Death of the Ego
Today at 2:03pm EST, the planet Neptune moves into the sign of Pisces. The last time Neptune transited the sign of Pisces was from 1847 until 1862.
Too often, our lives cease working because we cease working at life
There can be no resolution leading to growth until the present situation has been faced completely and you have opened to it with mindfulness.
A Loving Kindness Meditation
Maybe we are overdeveloped outwardly and underdeveloped inwardly. Perhaps it is we who, for all our wealth, are living in poverty.
Remove obstacles, release energy, understand the nature of life and mind
We get caught up in the torrent [of our thoughts] and it winds up submerging our lives as it carries us to places we may not wish to get and may not even realize we are headed for.
How mindfulness changes karma
Ultimately, it is our mindlessness that imprisons us. We get better and better at being out of touch with the full range of our possibilities, and more and more stuck in our cultivated-over-a-lifetime habits of not-seeing, but only reacting and […]
What exactly is an “ego” anyway?
Frantically, and in real dread, we cast around and improvise another identity, one we clutch onto with all the desperation of someone falling continuously into an abyss. This false and ignorantly assumed identity is “ego.”