We hear a lot of talk about “living in the present moment”, but it is hard for us to understand exactly what that means. We tend to think that when we are experiencing something, it will last forever. When we are miserable, we think there is no…

I always feel much better when I can say, “Okay, this is just how I am, and that’s it.” Not in an offensive way that puts it in people’s faces, or rubs in the differences, and not in a way where I am trying to anticipate how they are going to…

Right mindfulness involves mindfulness of the body, feelings, mind, and phenomena. One starts with mindfulness of the body and begins by being aware and careful about what our body is doing during the day. It is holding in our minds the way we…

The aggregate of feelings — pleasant, unpleasant and neutral — is the principal way that karma ripens. Very often we think the objects that we contact are the causes of feelings and we react to the object. But actually, we are reacting to…

Next in the four foundations of mindfulness is the mindfulness of the mind, and this is described slightly different in various traditions. His Holiness usually talks about it as becoming aware of the primary consciousnesses, not so much about…