Mindfulness-Awareness Group with Ira Rechtshaffer

10/23/2015

Mindfulness as a practice comes from the 2,600 yr. old tradition of Buddhism. Although a religion, Buddhism in essence, is a practical path of liberation from neurosis and its symptoms of anxiety, depression, inertia and dysfunctionality. It is a profound psycho spiritual tool that instructs us how to transmute the raw material of our neurosis into sanity and well being...

10/19/2015

Buddhism teaches that our world is a mandala of orderly-chaos where opposite, contradictory qualities mingle and form intricate combinations which are intelligible. Much like mother nature which exists as a balance of sustained conflicts and tensions, our world is already coherent and integrated when we are not struggling with it, or trying to escape to a better place.The center of every mandala exists as open space with inconceivable depth and vastness. From ego's point of view, this basic space is boring, uneventful, deficient and desolate. But from the Buddhist perspective, we can't cultivate art in everyday life unless we learn to appreciate this neutral psychological space.

10/17/2015

Courtyard of the Unitarian Universalist Congregation of Marin--one of several beautiful features of the location.

10/17/2015

10/13/2015

http://www.elephantjournal.com/2015/10/samsara-the-difference-between-dogs-lions/

My most recent article.....can be read online, click above.

That bushy tail is what the Buddhist tradition calls ignorance, the avoidance of the...

10/12/2015

As many of you know, I have a new book out!

http://www.amazon.com/Mindfulness-Madness-Money-Food-Sacred/dp/1785350862/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1443398294&sr=8-1&keywords=Mindfulness+and+Madness%3A+Money%2CFood%2CS*x+and+the+Sacred

Mindfulness and Madness shows how to approach our everyday life without armor, and how to meet the world's nakedness with our own.