Moving from reaction to attention...

For the last 3 or 4 days, I've been practicing the meditation "can I sense my feet on the ground?" This is something I've heard said so many times during walking meditation and advised others to do as well. But this is the first time that I've tried so consistently to bring my attention to my feet making contact with the ground.

It sounds like such a simple technique but it's been absolutely fascinating for me to discover how quickly my attention drifts to other things, most of all to the stori… Continue

I've wanted to express my appreciation to other group members for requesting more time for silent meditation last Thursday evening. It is personally rewarding that others have come to value the need to share the gift of silence together. For me, the primary purpose of group practice is to is to foster a field of energy from which individual practitioners can begin to move more fully into the depths of their own experience. When we sit together as a group, we sometimes discover an increased capac… Continue

Tonight I had the good fortune to go to the Wat Lao monastery to sit with the Theravada Practice Group of Columbus. At the end of the service of traditional chants in Pali and silent meditation, one of the monks came over to talk with us briefly. Somehow we got onto the topic of impermaence, that everything which arises also fades away. In broken English, he asked us to "consider how everything changes." He commented that giving birth br… Continue