- Mindfulness: Wholesome or Not?
Is mindfulness universally wholesome, or not? I'll look at two different viewpoints, one from the Theravāda abhidhamma, and another from a recent monastic scholar.
- Mindful Awareness and the Rising Tide of Information
We live in a world of increasing information that threatens to overwhelm our attention. We will see how a 1971 paper foresaw the rise of what has come to be called the "attention economy", and how some of its recommendations may point us…
- What Isn't Meditation
We hear lots of different things called "meditative" in daily life. But are they really meditation in the Buddhist sense of the term? We will look at several of these and see how they stack up, and then turn to a passage from the early…