jon walker
To be better in all our moments.
When I think about why I meditate, I often can’t find an intellectual answer. It just seems right. But it does help to have an...
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jon walker
- Oct 13, 2021
- 2 min
Waking up loving-kindness.
When he talks about the loving kindness practice, Jack Kornfield reads this story as a way to open hearts. It is from the book Mortal...
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jon walker
- Oct 10, 2021
- 1 min
The next present moment.
When we practice meditation, we are practicing reacquainting ourselves with our natural awareness. We remind ourselves what our...
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jon walker
- Oct 8, 2021
- 1 min
Schrödinger's quote.
Physicists often have wise sayings. Perhaps it is because they spend their whole lives exploring the fundamental interconnectedness of...
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jon walker
- Oct 6, 2021
- 1 min
Where life occurs.
Karen Maezen Miller describes herself as “a wife and mother as well as a Zen Buddhist priest at the Hazy Moon Zen Center in Los Angeles.”...
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jon walker
- Oct 5, 2021
- 2 min
Gladieux Consulting.
This is a shout out to Michelle Gladieux and her amazing team at Gladieux Consulting. We get enamored by people that devote their lives...
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jon walker
- Oct 2, 2021
- 1 min
Seeing the mind clearly.
Here’s a quote I enjoy, but I don’t remember where it came from. Let me know if you recognize it. “So many people say that they cannot...
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jon walker
- Sep 28, 2021
- 1 min
Acceptance.
It seems our culture and upbringing and genetics conspire to give many of us a message that is so deeply internalized that we often can’t...
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jon walker
- Sep 26, 2021
- 1 min
Riding your elephant.
This quote is from an excellent blog post on motivation by Marie-Josée Shaar “In his book The Happiness Hypothesis, Jon Haidt explains...
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jon walker
- Sep 25, 2021
- 1 min
The source.
A quote that says it all when I’m stuck in my head. Or just about any time, really. From the polymath David Bohm: “The reason we don’t...
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jon walker
- Sep 23, 2021
- 1 min
Just one breath.
Finding time to meditate can be tough. But don’t underestimate the power of even just taking a few conscious breaths during the day to...
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jon walker
- Sep 19, 2021
- 1 min
That which is aware.
With mindfulness, you begin to realize that there is no thought that rises into consciousness that doesn’t have some tinge of liking or...
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jon walker
- Sep 18, 2021
- 1 min
Rough landing.
A nice quote from Sam Harris: “Recognize that we all are striving to be happy, but our minds are always chattering to ourselves in such a...
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jon walker
- Sep 12, 2021
- 1 min
The Things.
The coffee experience is an awesome way to bring mindfulness into daily life. Not only do you have all the physical sensations of...
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jon walker
- Sep 7, 2021
- 1 min
Tara on the way out of our cage...
There really isn’t anything to add to this quote by Tara Brach, from Radical Acceptance: “The way out of our cage begins with accepting...
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jon walker
- Sep 4, 2021
- 1 min
Zappa on parachutes
“A mind is like a parachute. It doesn't work if it is not open.” Frank Zappa I love that quote. And I used to bask in a self-satisfied...
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jon walker
- Sep 2, 2021
- 1 min
Opinion reactivity.
“Do not search for the truth. Only cease to cherish opinions.” Jianzhi Sengcan, Third Chinese Chán Patriarch. That quote is plenty...
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jon walker
- Sep 1, 2021
- 1 min
Another reason to pause to see things clearly.
From Mindfulness in Plain English by Bhante Henepola Gunaratana. One of those books you can read again and again. Much gratitude to Tammy...
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jon walker
- Aug 31, 2021
- 1 min
Contingent modes of self-esteem.
The psychologist and meditation teacher Matthew Brensilver can convey many-layered ideas in very few words. He was talking to a group of...
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jon walker
- Aug 30, 2021
- 1 min
One thing we all tend to be good at. Unfortunately.
Whether you’re new at meditation or you’ve been at it for a while, it is important to remember that this process of training the mind...
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