I just heard that there is an active shooter situation at our local high school, Boulder High School, here in Boulder, CO. It is exciting as I try to learn what is going on, but part of me has this ho-hum attitude, just another day and another shooting. I was going to add “in America” […]
meditation
Meditation in Conversation
I accidentally discovered a “spiritual” hack, a way to dramatically improve the effectiveness of my meditations on the quality of my life experience. AND, this hack also dramatically improve the quality of my relationships and experience with other people. I call this discovery Meditation in Conversation. That is because I am basically meditating or practicing […]
Hacking Meditation
A new episode from The Enlightened Rebel podcast.
Ben Vizy’s Podcast ‘Free Association’ with me
I met this guy, Ben Vizy, at a Community Cycles gathering and after talking with me for a few minutes he asked me to come to do a podcast with him. Since I thoroughly enough talking to people about deep topics I accepted and here is the podcast that resulted. Ben Vizy’s Podcast with Jim […]
Mindful Relating
Last night I went to the Trident Philosophy Group where the topic of discussion was about “What is Love?” We had a great discussion and I had forgotten what it was like to be around people who have the capacity to talk about things that might be deep or challenging. Most of the groups I […]
Dealing With Tragedies
After each mass killing either here or abroad we hear a lot of people talking about how this could have been adverted, how we could have prevented this type of tragedies. Or they start to ask questions on what we can do to prevent these types of tragedies. What people completely fail to look at […]
I Love People
I have not always loved people. In fact there was a time I wanted to be a forest ranger just so that I could go off and live in a forest in a cabin all by myself, never having to deal with people. I outright hated people. I am not saying that I hated this […]
16 Desk Meditations That Will Change Your Life – OnlineDegrees.org
16 Desk Meditations That Will Change Your Life – OnlineDegrees.org. This is a good article with suggestions on how to deal with the stress of working at a desk all the time. I find that just taking a timeout for a few minutes, closing my eyes and taking some deep breathes really helps. AND, […]
Beyond Nonduality II
In my personal spiritual evolution I turned first to the eastern traditions because I had seen the corruption of the western traditions and the eastern traditions offered me a way to find inner peace and not just some nebulous concept like salvation. After finding some degree of inner peace and the clarity that comes with […]
Master Your Mind
Master your own mind. This is the heart of the message of all the great teachers or ‘masters’ that ever existed, be they called Buddhas or Christs, for they were masters over their own minds and hence masters over the world. Meditation or ‘watching’ is just the process of watching your own mind so that […]