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Rick’s Picks: Randy Pausch’s Last Lecture

by | May 8, 2015 |

Rick's Picks is a new series of posts highlighting the very best content online. Carnegie Mellon Professor Randy Pausch (Oct. 23, 1960 - July 25, 2008) was diagnosed with pancreatic cancer in September 2006, and in August 2007 he was given a terminal diagnosis. He...

Don’t Take it Personally

Don’t Take it Personally

by | May 6, 2015 |

Is it about you?The Practice:Don't take it personally.Why? Here’s an updated parable from the ancient Taoist teacher, Chuang-Tzu: Imagine that you are floating in a canoe on a slow-moving river, having a Sunday picnic with a friend. Suddenly there is a loud thump on...

Open Space Mindfulness

Open Space Mindfulness

by | May 4, 2015 | ,

This is the fourth and final post in the series on developing mindful presence. Here's Part One, Part Two, and Part Three. In Part Three we did a little mindfulness meditation to "tune-up" our mindfulness and concentration skills. Now we are going to distill that...

Rick’s Picks: Man vs. Machine

by | May 1, 2015 |

Rick's Picks is a new series of posts highlighting the very best content online. This piece from FiveThirtyEight explores a classic contest of man vs. machine, carried out on the battlefield of the chess board. Seventeen years ago in New York City, brooding chess...

The Neurodharma of Love

by | Apr 30, 2015 | ,

Most of our greatest joys and sorrows happen in our relationships with others. Imagine then: what if you could guide your mind to forgive, heal, and find greater happiness in your connections with others? The remarkable truth is that you can. Check out this sample...

Mindfulness Tune Up

Mindfulness Tune Up

by | Apr 27, 2015 | ,

This is the third post in the series on developing mindful presence. Here's Part One and Part Two. Steady mindfulness requires overcoming the natural – and evolutionarily adaptive – tendency of mind to scan endlessly and think of new things. So the basic capacity to...