Mindfuling

Really, is that it? There has gotta be more to it. Well, yes and no.

Keywords: Breath awareness, guided meditation, real life, ego, thinking, congnition, go deep, simple, complications, tragedy, discursive, touching reality, speed of thought, delusion, peace, practice, anapanasati, concentration

More working with sound, which can be a vivid and, paradoxically, easier way compared to running away, pushing away. An excerpt from an Open MAP class at South Shore Insight.

Keywords: Body awareness, first foundation, air, elements, liquid, heat, fire, space, water, baby talk, meditation, mindfulness, view, intention, speech, action, profession, effort, mindfulness, concentration, hum, traffic, ambient noise, path, buddha, kindness, formal practice, earth, holidays, new year's, letting go, lists, models, Hanover, Massachusetts

On a flight, meditating with what is. Exceptional but workable. Baby Doe is easy to focus on in many ways!

Keywords: Sound Meditation, Alarm, Fear, Greed, Delusion, Ambient Noise, Sense door, awareness, tides, rise and fall, equanimity, Baby New Year, Airbus, Space Ship, transformation, discontent, suffering, holy cow, guided meditation, air travel, Story, breath awareness, what is, ego, Oh My! 

Hot Zombies, Cool Buddhas and a new chap we only know as Doctor Pastille. Cocoa encountered him in a chapel the size of Paris, Texas.

Keywords: Drama, Dhamma, Not Self, Kamma, written word, Buddhism, practice verses consumption of sweets, so many books so little awareness, dharma, Professorial, Chapel, Resonance, pages, mental exercise, wow, flutter, mouth noises, book, text, tombs

Guided meditation and example of how to bookend your mindfulness practice with a daily Divine Home practice. Of course, infinitely expandable is this.

Keywords: Mindfulness, Insight, Direct Knowledge, Vipassana, Meditation, Daily Practice, Remedy, Simile, Inoculation, awake, four postures, still, Burmese, lotus, Heart-Mind, meditating, meditate, mindful, kind words, kindness to yourself

Mindfuling at Weekend (MAW) is a dense and super cool one this week. Many puzzles but also many simple practices to repeat and to come 'round to, so as to develop some truly helpful and delightful being.

Keywords: divine, sublime, metta, karuna, mudita, upekkha, lovingkindness, goodwill, compassion, empathic joy, equanimity, peace, steven hawking, voice synthesis, cart machine, radio, telepathy, surveilance, russian dolls, freak out, carnival, marshfield fair, country fair, horse and pony, meditation, mindfulness, samadhi, concentration, truth, memory, bionic, self destruct, magnetic tape, metric

Hot Zombies returns, mostly via an ancient tape recorded technology that Coop had parachuted into his place months, even episodes, ago.

Keywords: Theater, drama, dhamma, carny, cart machine, eight track, seven things, phone numbers, Freak Out, 80's, puppets, ireland, theater, mind, military, surveylance, parachute, binary laughter, creep storm

Divine Home practice, all of it, is awake and intending toward, moving toward, practicing for the benefit of all beings. Talk with guided practice.

Keywords: Metta, LovingKindness, Karuna, Compassion, Mudita, Sympathetic Joy, Upekkha, Equanimity, balance, you can do it, do it, get to know it, the peace, brahma vihara

Silence is an idea. Reality is, we all pass away. Reality is, we don't like that idea. Reality is, that includes ourselves…

Hear with your ears, listen with your heart — Pauline Oliveros

Keywords: Deep Listening, Pauline Oliveros, Rachel Carson, Silent Spring, Audio, Thanks Giving, Intention, Sound Field, Accordian, Concertina, Bandoneon, Mills College, Cage, Improve, Jazz

Hot Zombies Cool Buddhas (HZCB), today more of an abstract audio puzzle with a plaque, a sign, inscription and the sound field of a gravel path.

Keywords: Serial Radio, Non-linear, Environmentalism, Silent Spring, Rachel Carson, Birds Falling from Sky, DDT, EPA, No Way, Do Not Enter, Listen to the Silence, memory, H2O, Mars has Lake Superior Amounts of water, lifeless, it's a small world, Rachel Carson, 50's, 60's, pesticide, big chemical industry, Duxbury, Massachusetts