by Marco | Nov 22, 2020 | Articles, Newsletter Archive, Skillful Living
How Preferences Prejudice Your Perceptions What you perceive from among all the stimuli in your environment is biased by your preferences, and your preferences are conditioned by past experiences. Look around you. What do you notice? There are endless things in both... 
by Marco | Nov 22, 2020 | Articles, Newsletter Archive, Skillful Living, The Four Foundations of Mindfulness, The Seven Factors of Enlightenment
Maintaining Mindfulness in Daily Life We all have a tendency to rush to interpretation in our lives, and that can present a challenge to being mindful of our experience Have you ever left a meditation retreat feeling inspired to practice being mindful in your everyday... 
by Marco | Nov 22, 2020 | Articles, Depression, Newsletter Archive, Self-Soothing Practices
Managing Fatigue with Mindfulness Most of us dislike being fatigued and aren’t fully open to experiencing it. however, when we practice vipassana, we use mindfulness to see the dukkha (suffering) in all of our experiences; therefore, we can treat fatigue as one more... 
by Marco | Nov 21, 2020 | Articles, Newsletter Archive
Our Addiction to Preferences As we start to see our preferences for what they truly are, just preferences, we begin to realize that we have many more choices in how we meet each moment of life than what our preferences dictate. Buddhadharma places a lot of emphasis on... 
by Marco | Nov 20, 2020 | Articles, Newsletter Archive, The Seven Factors of Enlightenment
Releasing the Past through Investigation When you respond to difficulty as if it is a moment of dharma, it frees you from suffering. Each of us has experienced the feelings that arise from having failed miserably or from being hopelessly inadequate in regard to... 
by Marco | Nov 20, 2020 | Articles, Newsletter Archive, Self-Soothing Practices, Trauma and Psychological Wounds
Self-Soothing during Difficult Times Through the skillful application of mindfulness, we can learn to self-soothe whenever life knocks us off balance. We’ve all experienced how unsettling and uncertain life can be. Through the skillful application of mindfulness we...