by TAadministrator | May 28, 2013 | Mindfulness
Categorization Friends, enemies, lovers, strangers. We divide up our world and the people in it, treating people differently, based on which category they fall into. Most of us do it – we treat those we love with preferential treatment, offering them...
by TAadministrator | Mar 3, 2013 | Mindfulness
At the Google conference, Wisdom 2.0 in San Francisco last weekend, I went to a talk by a renowned writer and speaker. She made a comment which stuck with me, because it seemed to encapsulate the value and importance of generalities in how we think in the East and the...
by TAadministrator | Feb 11, 2013 | Mindfulness
To start on this path one must develop compassion for all beings, even those who we may find challenging or perhaps even repugnant, due to their actions or words. These challenging people are in fact our most important teachers, because without them, we have no...
by TAadministrator | Sep 27, 2012 | Mindfulness
Depending who you ask, “attachment” can be something that you strive for or something that you studiously avoid. Both require practice, yet appear at first glance to be fundamentally different concepts. Developmental Attachment The British psychoanalyst Bowlby coined...
