What does it mean to let our thoughts drift by like clouds?
Shifting our awareness from what our thoughts mean to how they fluctuate is an attentional exercise that develops liberating abilities over time.
Observing the movement of clouds can provide a glimpse into how we can relate to mental activity more objectively, but it oversimplifies things when the analogy is taken too literally.
Read More"I mean, it works. All you have to do is do it. You don’t even have to do it well – or right."
~ Mary Karr
Read More"Our brains evolved in such a way as to render us all eager but flawed mind readers."
~ Michael Bérubé
Read MoreOn a mindfulness retreat, Anderson Cooper puts down the microphone and learns to love silence, as well as life without a cell phone.
Read More"Wearing a futuristic headset embeded with electroencephalography (EEG) sensors, Lisa Park moniters her own brain activity during meditation and transposes this energy onto dishes of water to reveal zen-like vibrations."
Read MorePicturing stories is making reductions. Through reductions, we create meaning.
These reductions are the world as we see it – they are what we see when we read, and they are what we see when we read the world.
~ Peter Mendelsund
Read More"Mindfulness is more like the large hadron collider in that it’s a real tool for making some fundamental discoveries about the nature of the mind."
~ Sam Harris
Read More"The truly still mind, with which you were born, is the mind that moves freely. Without ignoring anything, it reacts wholeheartedly to everything it encounters, to everything on which it reflects. And yet, for all that, it is the mind that is never seized by anything, but is always ready to react on the spot to whatever it encounters next. The mind that is still is the mind that never forfeits its freedom and is able to constantly keep rolling and rolling and rolling."
~ Sōkō Morinaga
Read More"I think that the reason they want to have music in a funeral home is that the silence lets our mind just be free to run around with whatever thoughts that we have. And if somebody's in a funeral home, they're very likely to be having sad thoughts."
~ David Young
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