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The Impossible Task Of Being Human
Season 7 Episode 414
Tumultuous doesn’t even begin to describe it. Every time it feels like there’s just too much to take in, there’s something else to take in. Point in …
2 years, 5 months ago
The Thoughts That Bother Me
Season 7 Episode 413
Sometimes my thoughts are clear and I’m firing on all cylinders, in the zone. And sometimes my thoughts are completely un-useful. I don’t really have…
2 years, 5 months ago
When Our Best Falls Short
Season 7 Episode 412
Isn’t there some universal truth that if we misstep, first, we hope no one notices. Next, we feel surprise (maybe), and shame or regret? But at the s…
2 years, 5 months ago
The Potential in Scary Moments
Season 7 Episode 411
I had a moment at the airport yesterday where nothing was wrong but I was scared to death. The great Tibetan teacher Pema Chodron talks a lot about t…
2 years, 5 months ago
Can We Turn Resilience Into Love?
Season 7 Episode 410
We sit and we sit and we sit. Some days there’s ease. But some days for me anyway, there’s just sorrow or anger or fear. And I really don’t want to b…
2 years, 6 months ago
Back to the Basics of Mindfulness
Season 7 Episode 409
What is mindfulness? Is it being present to each moment? Or is there more to it than that?
What if we’re present but frequently lodging objections? Wh…
2 years, 6 months ago
Letting Go Into Fall
Season 7 Episode 408
It’s been an eventful summer. Fires, hurricanes, indictments, work...and hopefully you've also had a few cool dips in the lake or the ocean, or been …
2 years, 6 months ago
You Don't Always Want What You Want...
Season 7 Episode 407
Do you really want all the things you think you want? I don’t, but I think I do. So I mostly operate under that delusion, trying to accumulate more t…
2 years, 6 months ago
The Consequences of What We Feel
Season 7 Episode 406
The Consequences of What We Feel
Do you ever feel like life is happening fast? I do. Mindfulness invites us to slow down in a particular way, taking i…
2 years, 7 months ago
Connecting With Our Experience
Season 7 Episode 405
How many times each day do you notice that seeing is happening? Or that hearing or tasting or smelling are happening? The world is such a cacophonous…
2 years, 7 months ago