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Morning Intention: Dropping Thoughts “Mid-Sentence”

“When sitting in meditation, say ‘That’s not my business!” with every thought that comes by.” (Ajaan Chah) **Morning Intention: To notice when I am caught in a painful pattern of thought and to drop it “mid-sentence”. One of our greatest delusions is that the stories we tell ourselves have beginnings and ends. We know on […]

Master Cleanse

A definition of insanity: Trying to control what can’t be controlled, but also, not trying to control what one clearly can. Take, for example, the notion of “purity”, a notion to which human beings have aspired for so many millennia. So much of this ideal of purity is clearly insane — but so, too, is […]