Flowing Forward

Have you ever watched a jazz musician become the music as if they were a channel for spontaneous audible genius from on high? Have you ever watched a gymnast tuck, twirl, flip and fly through the air in ways that seem to defy physics? When performers are expressing at very high levels of potential and … More Flowing Forward

Meeting Life

Are you able to go with the flow? Do you meet life and its ever-changing conditions with an open-mind, a brave heart, and little resistance? The fact is, adaptability is essential to our longevity; at very least, it helps us flow through the day with ease. Flow helps us cultivate lots of positive qualities—a willingness … More Meeting Life

Observing Flow

Often during a meditation sitting, the first thing you’ll notice is thoughts. Thought after thought arising as time goes by.It’s quite natural. Like leaves on a stream—appearing, drifting, disappearing. We don’t have to follow each one. We can simply watch. There are the moving things—thoughts, sounds, sensations—and there is the one who knows them. Objects … More Observing Flow