Self Archives • Heather Lyn Mann

#WalkingMeditation at a #BuddhistRetreat

January 3, 2014 by heatherlynmann

Last October, at a Buddhist retreat in Southwestern Wisconsin, I led a walking meditation. Here are my words of introduction and closing comments. Of special note, I'd like to acknowledge Geneen Marie Haugen for her beautiful writing in "Imagining Earth,"a chapter published in Spiritual Ecology: The Cry of the Earth.…

#Mindfulness and the #NeuroticMind

September 22, 2013 by heatherlynmann

I learned about the relationship between my mind and breath at my first Buddhist retreat. Sitting in calm alertness, I tried to focus my mind on a single point of pure, dependable reality: my breathing. Sitting peacefully I thought: Breathing in I feel myself breathing in. Breathing out I feel…

Cheerful Cataclysm

May 25, 2013 by heatherlynmann

Evidence is in all places Earth is berthing a Culture of Awakening Larger than religion, science, nations, or economics. The fierceness of discourse Incalculable investments undermining compassion These are the noises and graspings of society's dying, narrow self. We are greater than fright-filled limitations We are the seasons incarnate Exploding…

Heather Lyn Mann

#WalkingMeditation at a #BuddhistRetreat

#Mindfulness and the #NeuroticMind

Cheerful Cataclysm

Notes

Ocean of Insight available everywhere books are sold!

Notes

Bill McKibben Endorses Ocean of Insight!