No matter how or why we meditate, the process of meditation is made more effective as our capacity to intentionally attend increases. Many teachers talk about concentration as part of meditation and that is fair enough, however the word “concentration” frequently carries the sense of trying hard and bearing down on whatever we are concentrating [...]
by simon on March 12, 2013
Human growth is a contradictory experience. We feel the boundaries of self expanding and the experience of humility growing at least as fast. Our humanity means we are the inheritors of strengths and weaknesses and some of the more embarrassing among those weaknesses is the tendency to overestimate our strengths. The explosion of psychological research [...]
by simon on October 3, 2011
While our development as human beings is experienced as a unity, it is useful to temporarily and artificially segregate individual facets to clarify what seems to be happening and to allow us to gain some traction in making changes. Each of the I offer through this site is aimed either at directly facilitating development or [...]
by simon on October 2, 2011
Groups allow us to work at several levels with others. They allow us to explore our own experiences in light of the feedback from others. At a deeper level, they allow us to explore and share our relations with our collaborators in the group and get feedback from them on their experience of us. This [...]