Meditation
Is There a Dark Side to Meditation?
The recent article in The Atlantic by Tomas Rocha, “The Dark Knight of the Soul,” brings up a much neglected but very important topic around a dark side to meditation. With hundreds of studies (over 500 a year) coming out showing the benefits of...
Just When You Think You’re Enlightened
Andrew is a featured guest contributor in Buddhadharma Magazine. In this article, "Just When You Think You're Enlightened" Andrew writes that temporary experiences such as flashes of bliss or clarity can be encouraging moments in your practice, but...
The Power of Mindfulness
Everyday it seems there is another article about how mindfulness meditation is being embraced by people and institutions everywhere. From Silicon Valley to pro football to the Marine Corps , the power of mindfulness seems to be gaining some very...
Repetition is Key to Developing a Meditation Practice
Accomplishment in any discipline involves repetition. If we want to build muscles, we don’t lift 10,000 pounds one time, we lift a few pounds thousands of times. Just as repetition is the source of necessary hardship for a piano student aspiring...