How To Human, Episode 66
Matthew Hahn has been many things in his lifetime. A career criminal and drug addict, a selfless man of courage, a convict, a devout Buddhist, a recovered drug addict, and a loving husband and friend.
Tag: buddhism
I Turned Up The Music Because I’m Dying
As the teenagers passed in front of my truck, I rolled the windows down and turned up the “Ill Communication”. Don’t act like you’ve never done this before.
What We Mean By Suffering: A Recovery Dharma Topic
Suffering is built into the fabric of life and there is a certain amount of it that’s completely unavoidable. We don’t need to personalize it.
Mindfulness Of Elements: A Recovery Dharma Topic
As one breathes in and out with careful attention, one may simply note the varying sensations of breath as soft or hard, wet or dry, cool or warm, and moving or still.
Wanting To Kill Myself: Craving For Annihilation
My response to suicidal ideation was that there must’ve been something severely wrong with me. That I was broken.
Mindfulness Of Breath: A Recovery Dharma Topic
When the mind gets lost in thought, we gently note the distraction as whatever it may be and then return our attention to the sensation of breathing.
Burn With Me, My Sisters: A Reflection On Grief
My grief was none other than love that I didn’t want to feel. Love that was so great it felt too dangerous to allow out.
Feeling Tone: A Recovery Dharma Topic
Mindfulness of feeling tones is the practice of bringing attention to the way that sensations are met in our experience.