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A weekly meditation group on Zoom dedicated to practicing awareness in daily life, to end suffering and to nourish friendship with all beings. In 2024, we are deepening understanding and practice of the Buddha’s great poem of liberation, the Metta Sutta. Free and open to all. Click here for full information.
On this retreat, we followed the Buddha's instructions for weaving a deep knowledge of impermanence—to open the door to reality—in our daily lives. To listen for free to all the retreat’s guided meditations, dharma talks and check-ins, click here.
I’m a journalist of 30 years, including 10 years as a New York Times staff reporter, and later as a Bloomberg News bureau chief in Tokyo, London and Hong Kong. Today, I practice journalism by meeting the world with investigative spirit, warm-heartedness, humility, and hopefully a bit of wisdom. To read my Lokal Man columns, click here. To subscribe for free, click here.
Sayadaw U Tejaniya, a renowned Buddhist monk and meditation teacher, offers daily pointers by email for practicing meditation with eyes open during all the activities of busy modern life. Click here for more info and to subscribe.
A guide to daily life meditation by the Burmese meditation master, Sayadaw U Tejaniya. (I edited the book.) An Amazon reviewer wrote: “This book offers the most clear and direct guide to maintaining awareness throughout the day, in your daily life.” Another wrote: “The teacher’s style is simple, right to the point, and extremely wise and insightful. 100% recommended.” Click here to purchase on Amazon.
My mother, Jean McGill, suffered a devastating and yet consistently cheerful dementia for over 20 years. I was her primary caregiver and I’m chronicling our intertwined journeys, as she coped with her worsening losses, and I witnessed and helped as best I could. See The Leaf Artist, The Zen of Dementia, and A Handful of Leaves.
DHARMA TALKS & GUIDED MEDITATIONS
SIMPLE BEING
Knowing the simple essence of being is the key to happiness.
DHARMA TALK (45 minutes)
GUIDED MEDITATION (30 minutes)
BEING LOVE
The essence of being is love; happiness is living as that love.
DHARMA TALK (45 minutes)
GUIDED MEDITATION (30 minutes)
THE MOST DANGEROUS IDEA IN THE WORLD
The idea that life is essentially material in nature—AKA materialism—is the root cause of all suffering within ourselves, and of all conflict in the world.
DHARMA TALK (60 minutes)
HOW TO EXPERIENCE EVERYTHING AS ONE
Among the billions of apparently-different beings in the world there is not, in reality, a microspeck of difference in their essential being, nor the slightest separation between beings. Knowing this deeply is peace.
DHARMA TALK (45 minutes)
GUIDED MEDITATION (30 minutes)
DOOMSCROLLING & DHAMMA
Human beings have scrolled endlessly through their fears, internally, since humanity began. There is a healthier, permanently liberating way.
DHARMA TALK (60 minutes + 30 minute Q&A)
I AM SO NOT ENLIGHTENED
Seeing my ignorance, I see my infinitude. A dharma talk with some laughs.
DHARMA TALK (45 minutes)
FADING AWAY, ENDING, LETTING GO
Three steps to peace and happiness, from the Buddha
GUIDED MEDITATION (42 minutes)
“Happiness is the nature of our being, and we share our being with everyone and everything.”— Rupert Spira