Misusing Meditation The Limits of Mindfulness Sometimes people try to use mindfulness and meditation to get rid of what they consider an unpleasant experience. Because the practice of meditation is so powerful and our experiences can be so painful, this is quite a common temptation. Yet it won’t help, and it is actually going against […]
Seeing the Divine in Everyone As You See Others, You Will See Yourself “When you meet anyone, remember it is a holy encounter. As you see him you will see yourself. As you treat him you will treat yourself. As you think of him you will think of yourself. Never forget this, for in him […]
Are You Still Carrying Her? A Zen Parable Points to Unconditional Peace The Story There is a beautiful Zen parable that provides us great fodder to explore the nature of happiness and how we might rest more fully in it. It goes like this: Tanzan and Ekido were once traveling together down a muddy road. […]
In My Defenselessness My Safety Lies How Defensiveness and Unhappiness Go Hand in Hand A good idea, community, or spirituality speaks for itself and doesn’t need defending. If criticism isn’t true, those falsehoods will be borne out over time. If criticism is well founded, the ideas need improvement and can incorporate the criticism, or they […]
More on the Write Way to Happiness One Dude’s Journaling Practice My friends know that I’m a huge fan of journaling. I consider it an essential practice for my emotional well-being. Regular DailyHap readers will also remember that certain kinds of journaling—especially about emotional or traumatic events, real or imagined—have been scientifically demonstrated to increase happiness. So […]
Yesterday evening I lost the keys to my car during a bike ride. I got AAA to tow the car from my garage to the Toyota dealership where they could make a new key this morning. When I hadn’t heard from the dealership, I called to ask about the progress. They could not find my […]
One of the Most Powerful Techniques for Lasting Peace The Practice of Moment-to-Moment Self-Forgiveness (previously published on DailyHap.com on 5/08/13) I’m going to share with you a technique I believe is one of the most powerful mental technologies available to us for personal growth—and for deep, lasting peace. What is it? Simply put, you give […]
A lot of people think spirituality is for softies, but nothing could be further from the truth. To truly live a spiritual life—which might be defined universally as seeking to embody love (God, Enlightenment, Truth) in every action of every day—takes more courage than anything else in the world. What it Takes A person living […]