ATS Podcast: Dharma Practice is Available in Every Moment

I have a new talk up on the Against the Stream podcast. I took the opportunity to look at all the opportunities we have for Dharma practice. Dipa Ma, a wonderful teacher from the Insight lineage, instructed that there is not one moment where practice is not possible. I am doing blog writing practice right now. I just concluded my listening to the Erev Rosh Hashanah service from ourjewishcommunity.org practice. I will soon move into my getting my daughter ready for school practice. In the midst of it all, I will do my formal sitting practice.

Mindfulness and concentration are engaged through setting of intention and then effort. Over and over again, we can reset that intention, and from a wise place, know what effort is called for at this moment. In these turbulent times, our effort to cultivate mindfulness and the lovingkindness and compassion that it engenders seems less like a choice and more like an absolute necessity. In that spirit, I set my intention this morning. And now, breakfast practice...