meditation – Temp Arbor

How to Get Off of Your Hamster-Wheel

Meditation and the Hamster-Wheel The only hope for humanity to get off the hamster-wheel of existence is for every person to take up the discipline of meditation. It is the only pathway to move beyond human ego, constant want, and inability to see one’s self and one’s motives clearly. Without it, a person will alwaysContinue reading “How to Get Off of Your Hamster-Wheel”

My Experience with Meditation

When I first started meditating, it nearly always made me angry. I felt such disgust and even self-hatred for how useless it seemed, that I couldn’t seem to ‘get it,’ that I couldn’t control my thoughts. Of course I realized that was exactly the reason I was doing it, and gradually that anger began to subside. In other words,Continue reading “My Experience with Meditation”

Watch What You Eat (with your mind)

I came across this piece today on The Huffington Post, and I thought it was one of the best posts I had seen on how the mind works and the obvious fact that the untrained mind cannot be a peaceful mind. This comes from a Buddhist writer, but it applies equally to all people —Continue reading “Watch What You Eat (with your mind)”

Seeing God

Seeing God is normally impossible In an earlier post I wrote about the importance of seeing God in all the places where he (or she — I know that’s uncomfortable for some, but c’mon — you know God isn’t male or female!) is. In my last post I said one way to do that isContinue reading “Seeing God”

Embracing Powerlessness, prt. 2

In my previous post I tried to clearly show that the path to peace is to embrace powerlessness. I showed that we have very little power over most of the things we care most deeply about. The question is how do we actually embrace powerlessness? The answer is as common as it is profound: byContinue reading “Embracing Powerlessness, prt. 2”

Meditation (anxiety, prt. 3)

DON’T STOP READING!! No matter how much the word “meditation” makes you want to tune out, I encourage you to hang in there. Hang in there, even though meditation is seen by many as some esoteric practice, meant only for a) monks, nuns, and the hard-core religious; b) kooky, or touchy-feely people, both of whichContinue reading “Meditation (anxiety, prt. 3)”