Tag: daily meditation

• The Mindful Life

  Last week I taught a class about “The Mindful Life” at my college.  Mindfulness is rooted in the Buddhist philosophy that only the present moment exists.  The future does not yet exist.  The past no longer exists.  Therefore, we should focus our energy and attention on that which is real, the present moment. Personally, I […]

  Teri

  March 2, 2016

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  anxiety, anxiety and depression, Buddhism, daily meditation, depression, Harvard neuroscience, meditation, meditation practice, Mindfulness, present moment, self-awareness, spirituality, stress

• Serious Business

  I enjoy reading the Paris Review’s interviews of writers because they are often inspiring. I ran across their interview of Maya Angelou the other day and was particularly struck by this question and answer exchange: INTERVIEWER You once told me that you write lying on a made-up bed with a bottle of sherry, a dictionary, […]

  Teri

  April 29, 2015

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  bible, daily meditation, faith, Interfaith, Maya Angelou, meditation, Paris Review, poetry, practicing faith

• about a daily spiritual practice

  We can hardly get Christians today to observe a weekly spiritual practice, let alone daily. This was my response to the teacher of the meditation conference I was attending who claimed he had never visited a church that encouraged a daily spiritual practice.  My teacher was a writer whose writing flourished once he embraced Buddhism […]

  Teri

  July 25, 2013

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  centering prayer, daily meditation, meditation, meditation practice, spiritual practices, spirituality, Thomas Merton, writing