Many people can understand the process of developing a Mindfulness practice, but developing just the first foundation is not so easy to habituate.
Keywords: Mindfulness, Meditation, First Foundation, Repetition, simple, breathe awareness, anapanasati, echo
Written, Recorded and Produced by Paul M. Cheevers | Mindfuling.org
The MAW is Mindfuling at Weekend, a compilation of the weeks podcasts with a little less and a little more.
Keywords: Sati, Mindfulness, Packets, yogini, dukkha, buddha, serial radio theater, practice, dub science
Written, Recorded and Produced by Paul M. Cheevers | Mindfuling.org
The Fuel Of Gossip, FOG. Just because there is energy and oomph to a story doesn't mean it is wise to engage, tell or perpetuate a version of a story. Unverified second hand information presented as truth is delusion and can be wrapped up a greed and fear. Gossip is a powerfully blinding toxin to the heart and mind, which has to include the body.
Keywords: Gossip, gossiping, The FOG, Fuel Of Gossip, Horror, Wise Speech, eight fold path, sidhartha, gotama, buddha, rockwell, fine art, telephone, energy awareness, present moment, mindfulness, goodwill, kamma, karma, small town, dhamma
Written, Recorded and Produced by Paul M. Cheevers | Mindfuling.org
Mindfulness is not what you think. Or, don't believe everything you think. Or, get over your self. Or, I Get confused by my thoughts and actually believe them to be truer than true.
Ya, it is a rabbit hole if you stay thinking, reading, listening to others talk. Learn to practice being fully Mindful across the foundations and this all makes sense. It is clear beyond words.
Keywords: MINWYT, mindfulness, meditation, four foundations, vipassana, clear seeing, turkey, bear, scare, stimulus response, space to move wisely
Written, Recorded and Produced by Paul M. Cheevers | Mindfuling.org
The MAW: StArts is a compilation of the previous week's Mindfuling podcasts. We added a bit of sonic detail and edited some stuff. PHHHHft!
Keywords: Meditation, Beat Box, Summer time practice, summertime, insight, vipassana, Eight Limbs of Yoga, tin whistle, ambient, serial radio, dhamma, dharma, drama, all the news that's fit to spit, origami, tathagata, buddha, buddhism
Written, Recorded and Produced by Paul M. Cheevers | Mindfuling.org
When the Historical Buddha referred to himself, back in the day, 2500-ish years ago, he used the word Tathagata. What does that mean, indicate and precede?
Keywords: Buddha, Awake, Mindfulness, Meditation, Wandering, Steps, Ganga, Fronting, Buddhism, India, Indian, Buddhism
Written, Recorded and Produced by Paul M. Cheevers | Mindfuling.org
Yes, practice alone and yes, practice with others — it don't get any LARGER or real than that.
Keywords: Mindfulness, meditation, buddha, dhamma, sangha, geekery, realtime, Buddhism, meditate, meditating, sanga
Written, Recorded and Produced by Paul M. Cheevers | Mindfuling.org
The MAW is a knitting together and edit of the previous week's podcasts.
Keywords: Honey Bees, Pattern, Practice, Mindfulness, Zombies, Baseball, Yogi, Yogini, ritual, insight, meditation, Buddhism, Buddhist
Written, Recorded and Produced by Paul M. Cheevers | Mindfuling.org
Superstition as the not-so-helpful distraction to the practice at hand. Superstition as the helpful means to a hitting streak.
Keywords: Metta, Goodwill, Practice, Red Sox, Jackie Bradley Jr., ritual, helpful habits, highly effective practitioners, mindfulness, awareness, concentration practice, baseball, slow, no time, jinx it, belief, habit, repetition, repeating, rituals, practicing, in the flow, freedom, lovingkindness, friendliness, fear, spirits, befriend, patterns, allies, may I be happy, safe, at ease
Written, Recorded and Produced by Paul M. Cheevers | Mindfuling.org
In theory, there is no difference between theory and practice. In practice, there is. The difference between theory and practice is real and profound. You can observe a lot by watching.
Keywords: Yogi, Yogini, Yogi Berra, bera, beara, Practice of Meditation, Four Foundations, Silence, baseball, Redsox, Yankees, savant, mindfulness, mindful, minding, Buddha, Buddhist thought, meditation, meditating, meditate, look, looking, watch, theory, delusion, thinking vs. practicing
Written, Recorded and Produced by Paul M. Cheevers | Mindfuling.org
Mindfuling at Weekend is The MAW. The previous weeks episodes edited and added to a bit.
Keywords: MAW, Sound Meditation, Present, Mindfulness, Bird song, Sati, Gothic, radio, serial, theater, art decco, honey bees, mead, deadpan, audio story, goth
Written, Recorded and Produced by Paul M. Cheevers | Email: paul@mindfuling.org | Web: www.Mindfuling.org
Using the recorded sound field with your personal live sound field, one that happens to be going on around you while listening — can you listen without adding? Practice and know freedom. No sound is a problem, it is just sound. Just awareness. Just mindfuling....
Keywords: Sound Meditation, Baltimore Oriole, Jays and Chickadees, Jets, bird, birdsong, singing birds, single engine prop planes, dog named Moxie, Moxy, woof, canine, barking, hearing, listening,
Written, Recorded and Produced by Paul M. Cheevers | Email: paul@mindfuling.org | Web: www.Mindfuling.org
Excerpt from the Awake and Connected retreat South Shore Insight offered in beauteous Cohasset, Massachusetts.
Keywords: Eightfold Path, impulse and memory, body learning, meditation, retreat, india, Ireland, baked potato, beats, knowing, wisdom, Help! I can't breathe, choke, choking, Heimlich maneuver, childhood, memories, memory
Written, Recorded and Produced by Paul M. Cheevers | Email: paul@mindfuling.org | Web: www.Mindfuling.org
The MAW stitches together the previous week's episodes with some edits.
Keywords: Mindfulness, Metta, Self Compassion, Tattoo, Serial Radio, Piercing, Right Speech, Letting Go and Knowing when to talk, phrases like seeds, non linear results, over the hump
Written, Recorded and Produced by Paul M. Cheevers | Email: paul@mindfuling.org | Web: www.Mindfuling.org
The Divine Homes are Goodwill, Compassion, Empathetic Joy and Equanimity. States to be cultivated and practiced so that they are known and fully in exercise of the Eight Fold Path for proper balance. Here is an edited version of the practice from a class I gave at South Shore Insight. The edit accentuates the Self-Compassion and Universal trajectory of the path.
Keywords: Meditation, Mindfulness, Wheel of Dharma, Dhamma, Insight and Freedom, seeds of wisdom, metta, karuna, mudita, upekkha, Buddhism, Buddha
Written, Recorded and Produced by Paul M. Cheevers | Email: paul@mindfuling.org | Web: www.Mindfuling.org
Snarky, Smart Aleckey, Wiseguy — all absent when actually practicing, when Mindfuling.
Keywords: Mark Stewart and the Mafia, Minduling, I'm Fifty, Molly Shannon, Melting Away, Happiness, Cynicism, Old Crotchety, Meditation, Practice, Freedom, Happiness, Scientific Meathod gone to the Ego, The Waiting Room, fifty, 50th, fiftieth, birthday
Written, Recorded and Produced by Paul M. Cheevers | Email: paul@mindfuling.org | Web: www.Mindfuling.org
Ok, the Eight Fold Path and a Higher Reduction. But don't skimp. And don't forget. And use all strings. And lighten uP.
Keywords: Dharma, Buddha, Eight Fold Path, Stratocaster, Walled in Mind, Color Shift, Serial radio drama, You Can Dance if you Want to, Tuned, Manchester Terrier, Mothra, Allergies, Tuning, Balance, Hoverboard, Jet Pack, Learning to Fly, Mindfulness, ssimc, Parachute, Pine Trees, Comic Color, Funny Pages, Podcast
Written, Recorded and Produced by Paul M. Cheevers | Email: paul@mindfuling.org | Web: www.Mindfuling.org
The Eight Fold Path is often organized into three groups: Wisom, Ethics and Concentration. How is that arranged and what sort of view does it emphasize?
Keywords: Three Fold Training, Wisdom, Ethics, Concentration, wobbly, stress tests, indicators, breath meditation, Buddha, Buddhist, Buddhism
Written, Recorded and Produced by Paul M. Cheevers | Email: paul@mindfuling.org | Web: www.Mindfuling.org
Where's my Jet Pack!? Well, it looks like it is getting closer to reality but then there is always something to be missing… Wait, where is my peace and satisfaction? What does it look like from up there?
Keywords: Jet Pack, Hoverboard, Flyboard, Franky Zapata, mindfulness, eight fold path, vipassana, meditation, geek, pilot, helicopters are amazingly complicated and expensive, Clear Prop!, South Shore Insight, Map of the world, jet ski, France, aviation, guinness book, peace, view, intention, speech, action, livelihood, effort, mindfulness, concentration, the way
Written, Recorded and Produced by Paul M. Cheevers | Email: paul@mindfuling.org | Web: www.Mindfuling.org
Sound Meditation in a Purple Rain, it so happens. Relax and then open your cultivated awareness to the transient, passing nature of all phenomena, including sound. Notice. Freedom and Love. Dude, you're like purple!
Keywords: Prince, Revolution, Purple, Rain, Meditation, Relaxation, Island Time, Party, 1999, genius, musical, everything fades, A Paisley Home Companion, the artist formerly known as Prince, David Bowie, pop music, time, physical body, presentation, gender bender, race bender, love, collaboration
Written, Recorded and Produced by Paul M. Cheevers | Email: paul@mindfuling.org | Web: www.Mindfuling.org
Ah, spring rain and the pitter patter of drops on my hood. Pretty difficult to avoid the slightest-of-wind recording with the iPhone mic. Ya, gotta get a better location rig.
Keywords: Rain drops, audio meditation, sound, New England, awareness of environment, wind screens do not save the world, bubbles, forest tradition, meditation, calming, mindfulness, mindful, meditate, weather
Written, Recorded and Produced by Paul M. Cheevers | Email: paul@mindfuling.org | Web: www.Mindfuling.org
The MAW is Mindfuling at Weekend, a compilation of the previous week's releases with a little nip and addition. Writing this I am reminded of a favorite quote from the Great Zen Master in middle ages Japan: Flowers fall with our attachment, weeds spring up with our aversion.
When we practice skillfully we can see the beauty of the flower, allow its coming and going easily, not growing angry when the inevitable falling petal hits our mind.
Keywords: Anger, Memory, Boston Strong, Marathon, Hot Zombies, Dogen, WFMU, freeform radio, 91.1 FM
Written, Recorded and Produced by Paul M. Cheevers | Email: paul@mindfuling.org | Web: www.Mindfuling.org
Awareness, Mindfuling, is Louder and Faster and Bigger than the speed of sound of material of this world. Ya know, you can be aware of a surprise and not be taken over by it as it unfolds.
Keywords: Patriots' Day, Boston, Mindfulness, Meditation, Awareness, Bandit, Explosion, greed, fear, delusion, presence, surprise, practice, public enemy
Written, Recorded and Produced by Paul M. Cheevers | Email: paul@mindfuling.org | Web: www.Mindfuling.org
The MAW is Mindfuling at Weekend, a compilation of the previous weekday's podcasts with a little nip and tuck.
Keywords: walking meditation, mindfulness, sphere of influence, vipassana, awareness, serial radio theater, mindful, meditate
Written, Recorded and Produced by Paul M. Cheevers | Email: paul@mindfuling.org | Web: www.Mindfuling.org
Bubble Theory focuses a bit more on relationship, community and the vital reality that practicing with others is a key part of the path to waking up.
Keywords: community, sangha, isolation, distortion, information gathering, collecting and neglecting, mindful
Written, Recorded and Produced by Paul M. Cheevers | Email: paul@mindfuling.org | Web: www.Mindfuling.org