“An injustice to one is a menace to all,” – Montesquieu This powerful quote captures a certain essence of interdependence, itself sometimes slightly elusive to define. Interdependence, in this sense, is in part an immediate and intimate sense of a common and shared humanity, something directly experienced on a felt level, beyond concept, and almost…
Tag: Buddhism
Just Sit: Providing an introduction to meditation practice, exploring clinical and recovery applications, and examining the Buddhist roots of the modern mindfulness practice
Mindfulness: the new buzzward in pop psychology. You can’t throw a stone these days without hearing someone mention mindfulness, see a new study on mindfulness, or run into some new guru trying to sell their particular flavor of mindfulness practice. There’s so much information and chatter out there that the regular Jane or Joe might…
Realizing Dependent Designation: The Buddha’s Middle Way
“If you perceive the existence of all things In terms of their essence, Then this perception of all things Will be without the perception of causes and conditions. Effects and causes And agent and action And conditions and arising and ceasing And effects will be rendered impossible. Whatever is dependently co-arisen That…
Unbinding
Life is hard, this is just the way it is. Life is made of the stuff of hardness. There’s no getting around this, and it is true for everyone in the world. We all have our troubles, we all have our pains. Weather it’s a direct experience of not having enough, of watching something beautiful…