When one first begins to seriously sit in "silence," things can be very loud! Like a waterfall at close roar. What to do and is this normal?

Keywords: Silence, listening, vipassana, meditation, mindfulness, beginner's mind, objects of contemplation and concentration, beginner, beginners, meditate, starting meditation, first meditation, first sit, try to meditate, trying to meditate, racing mind, racing thoughts, i can't meditate

Written, Recorded and Produced by Paul M. Cheevers | Email: [email protected] | Web: www.Mindfuling.org

Compilation of previous week's episodes with edits and various weekend barking and effects. A major dose, Jr.

Keyword: Mindfulness Inc., 4'33", robins, delusion, bauhaus, Bella, Undead, Zombies Hot and Buddhas Cool, Attaining the Waterfall, mindfulness, ssimc, easter egg, time, underwriting, listeners like you

Written, Recorded and Produced by Paul M. Cheevers | Email: [email protected] | Web: www.Mindfuling.org

Hot Zombies Cool Buddhas returns with more Farm Fresh situations and a pronouncement from Ank, the old cranberry farmer of yore.

Keywords: bogs, zombies, runway getaway, serial radio drama, dhamma, mindfulness, yoga, meditation, retreat, serialized, zombie, buddha

Written, Recorded and Produced by Paul M. Cheevers | Email: [email protected] | Web: www.Mindfuling.org

First experiences of sitting in meditation without the complex distractions or phrases can be overwhelming, like the power of a waterfall in the mind.

Keywords: Attaining the waterfall, beginner's mind, habit, pattern, mindfulness, body awareness, breath awareness, where is your mind, meditating, meditate, sitting in silence, habit, deluge, chatter, monkey mind

Written, Recorded and Produced by Paul M. Cheevers | Email: [email protected] | Web: www.Mindfuling.org

A sigh is just a sigh. The fundamental things is we are going to get sick, age, die, and grow separate from all — and everything we do has consequences, but don't freak out! Goths Up Trees (GothsUpTrees.net) is humorous and poignant and you have to read the captions with a light heart and laugh more heavily than an eight-inch black platform shoe.

Keywords: five remembrances, the hunger, catherine deneuve, david bowie, immortality, as time goes boom, monastic, buddhism, historical buddha, anapanasati, gothic, goth, emo, meditation, kindness and goodwill and wisdom and billionaires delusion, bauhaus, peter murphy, treehouse play without the tree

Written, Recorded and Produced by Paul M. Cheevers | Email: [email protected] | Web: www.Mindfuling.org

The second version of the 4' 33" sound meditation practice. The recording took place soon after an early spring snow storm on the South Shore of Massachusetts. The robins where faintly in the distance working the melting snow.

Keywords: 4' 3'', Four Thirty-Three, 4 33, 433, John Cage, sound meditation, mindfulness, melting snow, velociraptors, Meditation, Zen, Silence, mindfulness, audience participation, sound studio, environmental music, ambient, buddhism

Written, Recorded and Produced by Paul M. Cheevers | Email: [email protected] | Web: www.Mindfuling.org

Mindfulness disconnected from the other seven parts of the wheel that is the path can be helpful, but we are pretty sure that buying Mindful Mayonnaise misses the point.

Keywords: New York Times, Eight Fold Path, Buddhism, buddha, historical buddha, peace, wise speech, experiment in wave theory of mindfulness

Written, Recorded and Produced by Paul M. Cheevers | Email: [email protected] | Web: www.Mindfuling.org

This is a giant MAW (Mindfuling At Weekend) episode! As offered previously, this turns out to be super dense and extremely condensed—probably too much—and too much to take as a future series of our weekly meditations. On the other hand it is a convenient arc for a mindfulness practice that begins with the inspiring realization that life is short and has consequences. However, be wary of taking it all too seriously, else zombies demolish your presence, as our serialized Hot Zombies Cool Buddhas returns!

So, you have the power to pause and return to your awareness at any time, under any circumstances including a too-packed podcast or a springtime snow storm!

Keywords: serial radio drama, mindfulness, metta, sound meditation, standing meditation, uillean bagpipes, saint Patrick's, Boston, ireland, buddha, buddhism, zombie, budda, fiction, serial, serialized

Written, Recorded and Produced by Paul M. Cheevers | Email: [email protected] | Web: www.Mindfuling.org

Hot Zombies Cool Buddhas (HZCB) is the serialized Radio Dhamma theater bit of the Mindfuling podcast. We will start releasing HZBC micro-plays on Fridays, folding each of them into the Giant Mindfuling Aggregate Weekend episode — the Giant MAW — for Saturday or Sunday release.

Will the Giant MAW simply be a stitched together version of the weekday episodes, you may wonder. Well not quite, the Giant MAW will be mostly the weekday stuff — however there will be some additional stuff and probably something from the week that was edited out for time and/or timeliness considerations. This is all evolving in a dynamic fashion....

Thanks for listening!

Keywords: Giant MAW, papanca, cranberry, bogs, dogs, fog, paintball, mindfulness, pilgrims, native americans, bionics, serial radio drama, fiction, zombie, buddha, serial, serialized

Written, Recorded and Produced by Paul M. Cheevers | Email: [email protected] | Web: www.Mindfuling.org

Standing meditation is an active posture of great benefit to one's meditation practice. It is as real as sitting meditation, however it is standing!

Keyword: Standing, mindfulness, feet, soles, floor, posture, body sensation, awareness, attention, movement, meditation, stand, stand up, gravity

Written, Recorded and Produced by Paul M. Cheevers | Email: [email protected] | Web: www.Mindfuling.org