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The Key Is What Is Pressing Now

The Key Is What Is Pressing NowHow to Catch Up to the Present Moment Whatever is pressing in the mind … More

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Breath as Liquid Wrench

Breath as Liquid WrenchSoftening the Mind Where It Has Seized Up Concentration on the breath, sensation, awareness, knowing as it … More

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When the Song Is Over

When the Song Is OverHow thought continues while the mind rests in silence When did I realize the music had … More

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Clarity of Mind In Motion

Clarity of Mind In Motion Letting the swing, the thought, and the moment unfold without interference, until clarity dissolves into … More

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Contact: Where Attention Becomes Interest

Contact: Where Attention Becomes Interest Why Nothing Feels Dull When Contact Remains Mindfulness shows us where contact is already happening—and … More

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Stoop On Stoop Off – the practice of starting over

I was thinking about when I was a kid playing stoop ball. If the ball came back on a bounce, … More

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You Cannot Return to the Same Home Twice

An old doorway opened this morning. What I used to call Aladdin’s closet—a small, sloping space from childhood, built by … More

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Beyond Mindfulness

A cell phone can be set down on a surface and begin to charge without any cord. No visible connection, … More

What Are You Holding Onto Right Now?

I had just finished recording—peaceful, steady—and then, in an instant, it was gone. A minute and a half erased by … More

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Where Do You Live?

The thought began with distance. Astronauts traveling farther from Earth than anyone before—but farther from what? The point they reach … More