by Marco | Nov 22, 2020 | Articles, Skillful Living
Balancing Priorities If you hope to find lasting happiness, you must answer the question, what is your true priority—your inner life or your outer life? “The highest compassion, the only true act of compassion, is to point a person to their own... 
by Marco | Nov 22, 2020 | Articles, Skillful Living
Cultivating Clear Comprehension One of the benefits of practicing mindfulness is that you develop the ability to make wise distinctions in both thoughts and actions. Like many people who study hatha yoga in the United States, I practice a Buddhist form of meditation... 
by Marco | Nov 22, 2020 | Articles, Skillful Living, The Noble Eightfold Path
Do the Right Thing Practicing doing the right thing in small ways builds the potential to do the right thing in big ways. On March 16, 1968, Chief Warrant Officer Hugh Thompson, a US Army helicopter pilot, and two crewmen were flying a reconnaissance mission over the... 
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, Change and Uncertainty, Skillful Living
Making Major Life Changes Does your desire to make changes in your life come from wholesome motivation or unresolved issues? Sitting at my desk on a late afternoon in September, I watch the sunlight as it bounces off the leaves of the trees in front of my window,... 
by Marco | Oct 1, 2020 | Articles, Depression, Disappointment & Loss, Skillful Living
Beyond Happiness In the Four Noble Truths, the Buddha Focused Primarily on Suffering as A Gateway to Liberation. but He Also Taught that Mindfulness of Happiness Can Provide the Same Liberating Insights as Suffering. Erika has many reasons to be happy—she’s healthy,...