Tag: meditation

  • Three-Month Meditation Retreat at IMS, Barre, MA

    Three-Month Meditation Retreat at IMS, Barre, MA

    I’ll be at the Insight Meditation Society in Barre, MA from September 12 to December 5 doing their yearly Three-month Meditation Retreat. If you really need to contact me for some very important reason, please contact my wife Philomena (on her cell phone). I hope to clear out my head, deepen my concentration and mindfulness…

  • Gone (poem)

    Gone (poem)

    I’ve been contemplating Shinzen Young’s method to court enlightenment by focusing on the passing away dimension of phenomena. We are usually focused on the arising of objects in consciousness as they easily capture our attention. Everything that arises in this world of impermanence eventually passes away. We tend to jump from one arising to the…

  • Meditation for December Holiday Stress

    A Meditation for December Holiday Stress May we let go, if only for this moment, of mentally juggling our to-do lists.May we put aside, just right now, any obsessions with planning and preparing.May we also hold back desires and expectations, fears and anxieties,and just be present to this moment right now. While the holiday preparations…

  • Introducing Mostly Mindful Minister

    While this site isn’t completely ready for prime time, I thought I’d put a first post up so at least the world can begin to link to it.  I’m moving away from my HTML 1.0 web site I started way back in 1994 as a way to distribute my writing called Sam’s Bookshelf and Cafe…