Safe Harbor
If my prison story isn’t in service to something transformative, I am not interested in sharing it. Mine is a path of transformation and of love.
because we all can't be monks
If my prison story isn’t in service to something transformative, I am not interested in sharing it. Mine is a path of transformation and of love.
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.
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.
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.
Mindfulness of feeling tones is the practice of bringing attention to the way that sensations are met in our experience.
We begin to question certainty in anything, understanding that certainty moves a person down the continuum toward violence.
Some people have a moment of desperation followed by spiritual revelation. Some people have near death experiences and see their lives flash before their eyes. I had neither of those.