Tag Archive for: assumptions

A Hidden Curriculum: Conditioning in the Contemplative Classroom
On cultivating curiosity about conditioning and how it impacts our ways of being with ourselves, others, the world, and in our teaching of contemplative practices.

Taming the Judging Mind
A dedicated practice of mindfulness helps us harness the built-in human survival strategy of judging so that we can respond with wisdom.

Mindfulness of Self-Fulfilling Assumptions
Assumptions are one of the many mental habits that can cause us and those around us much suffering. A practice of mindfulness can clarify this, offering us a wider range of choices for wise responding.

Mindfulness of Good and Evil
The practice of mindfulness allows us to think more broadly and flexibly, going beyond the dualities of us or them, black and white, and all or nothing thinking.