Tag Archive for: impermanence

A Mindfulness Center in the Midwest: Seven Years and Embracing Impermanence

After seven years of joyful service as a mindfulness and meditation center MAM is coming to a close, but our community continues on.
a bubble in a stream a star at dawn lightning in a summer cloud a flickering lamp

So You Should View This Fleeting World

How mindfulness and compassion helped me face a terrible tragedy, see the goodness in humanity, and appreciate the impermanence of this fleeting world

Three Interrelated “I”s of Mindfulness Based Insight

Seeing through the lens of three interrelated "I"s is a framework that might help us awaken to the role we play individually and collectively in co-constructing our reality.

Mindfulness and Resilience

Practicing mindfulness can help us cultivate the factors shown by research to promote greater resilience, promoting the qualities we need to survive and thrive in the face of adversity.

Becoming Disillusioned

Being mindful of the many illusions humans are susceptible to can preventing us from being caught up in delusion.

Self-Care or Self-Limitation?

With the start of the new year, many of us are thinking about the ways we will care for ourselves going forward and the healthy practices we'd like to cultivate or maintain. But, how can we know what's truly good for us? Mindfulness can help us be more discerning.

Impermanence: Things Fall Apart

Understanding the impermanence of all things can help us awaken to the everyday miracles happening right in front of us. Impermanence is the observation that everything that comes into being is subject to transformation and decay. "Nothing endures but change." ― Heraclitus

Being or Becoming?

Practicing mindfulness is, in some ways, similar to time lapse photography. The technique of capturing many mundane moments over time reveals previously unseen and sometimes even paradigm shifting information. In this way, we can meet the ebb and flow of the universe with greater equanimity