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I’ve been practicing meditation since 1982, studying with many western teachers including Joseph Goldstein and Marcia Rose, as well as Tibetan teachers, Venerable Tsoknyi Rinpoche and Lama Zopa Rinpoche. Working with others over the years, I’ve helped found The People of Color Sangha in Albuquerque, New Mexico and in Seattle Washington. I’m also involved in [...]
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Read the full article...In 1965, I picked up a copy of D.T. Suzuki’s Zen Buddhism and was stymied: just what did I have to know in order to get the right answers to those koans? That began an extended tour through the many realms of “Buddology”: reading lots of books about what the Buddha taught, about his ”philosophy” [...]
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Read the full article...I began my meditation practice in 1987, when my then-boyfriend (now husband) asked me if I wanted to meditate. He had been practicing insight meditation for about 5 years by then. After he explained that it meant watching the breath for 30 minutes, I said sure. Little did I know that this would be the [...]
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Read the full article...My love for meditation and gardening came together when I wrote The Meditative Gardener: Cultivating Mindfulness of Body, Feelings, and Mind (http://www.meditativegardener.com/ ). In fact, I discovered gardening the same year that I attended my first mindfulness meditation retreat at Insight Meditation Society in 1977. In middle age, I received my Master’s degree in Counseling [...]
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Read the full article...While in college & then in my early 20’s, I tried meditating, but my mind remained trapped by incessant thinking so that each time I gave up frustrated and discouraged. It wasn’t until 25 years ago that I tried again … this time because of a physical problem that had no medical solution. Meditation still [...]
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Read the full article...The only way to discover the limits of the possible is to go beyond them into the impossible.
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