Meditating

Can't we all just meditate along?
Yesterday, my wife and I were walking along Boulder's delightful pedestrian mall and I saw a familiar site:
A guy sitting on a bench, back straight (not touching the bench), with a bowl of rice and veggies in his lap and the look of someone "eating mindfully." He had a slightly out-of-focus stare as he looked into the distance while his food chilled. (…)

Getting the benefits from meditation in a pill
The brilliant and witty writer Dorothy Parker once said, "I hate writing, but I love having written."
In speaking with the thousands of meditators I know — I started meditating in 1970 at age 8 and now teach meditation all around the world — a great many of them would paraphrase Dorothy and say, "I hate meditating, but I love having meditated."
So many people I've met say they meditate not because of how they feel while they're doing it, but because of the benefits of meditation they get after having done it. (…)

Mindfulness meditation - be there then
My friend Dave had a book on his shelf, 8 Minute Meditation. I couldn't help but pick it up. (…)

The Myth of Mystics
Just so you know, these words will be neither anti-mystic nor anti-mysticism. I am a mystic myself. But everyone makes mistakes and mystics are no exception. (…)

Denial is More than a River in Egypt; it's a Valuable Spiritual Tool
I grew up in a traveling New Age commune. My parents meditated every day. To ten-year-old me, the idea of meditating was less-than-thrilling. (…)

Meditating and depression
I just wrote the title to this post - "meditating and depression" - and keep laughing at the idea that meditation causes depression. (…)

A radical look at meditation techniques and how to meditate