THE MEDITATION ARCHIVE

A collection of writings previously presented as

Interlude's "Meditation of the Week."

The End of Anger
How Is Your Mind?

Happiness
The Good Life

Appreciation

Going To The Well
Just Because You Can Think, It Doesn't Mean You Always Should
Remember To Treasure The Ordinary
Will I, Or Will I Not?
Simple Pleasures
Karma Bites
Giving And Receiving
Waves Of Consciousness
A Body Of Information
Awareness In Season
Patience
States Of Union
Synchronicity
The Zen Of Gardening
What Is Your Frequency?
Attention To The Formless 
Being Of Three Minds
Mental Vacation
Choosing Your Emotional State 
Attention And The Brain
Attention Power Is Will Power
Remaking Your World
Healing Energy
Picking A Reality
Knotty Mind
Facing Toward The Light
Harmonize The Mind
Beyond Sense
Falling Water
Heart Meditation
Bio-Energy
Settling The Body In Meditation
Narrowing Mental Bandwidth
Half Living Is Easy
Releasing Baggage
Listening To The Pulse Of The Universe

Oneness
Acceptance
Thought Drifts On A Winter Day
Cold Season Meditation
Assuming Benevolence
What You Attend To Is What You Get
Attention

Awake And At Rest
Does Meditation Make You A Leftist?
Engage With Sincerity
Zen Maps, Zen Shoes
Healing Visualization
Grounding
Golden Indignation
What Is Truth?
Trancing The Night Away
Meditation vs. War

Becoming Instruments Of Peace
Peace Be With You
Viva the Vagus
Your Body Don't Lie WhenYou Stand Up Straight
Right View
Right Thinking
Right Speech
Right Mindfulness
Right Action
Right Concentration

Right Livelihood

Right Diligence
A Lake Meditation

Saints & Buddhas Among Us
How Can I Embrace Emptiness When I’m Not Full Yet?
Look Deeply At The Source of Suffering
Mind Ruts
One Among Many
Truth, Love and Consequences

Living In A Changed World
Cultivating Happiness And Calm
Vipassana
Taking Time For Peace
Love
Tonglen
A Few Of Your Undocumented Features
More Undocumented Features
What Do You Choose?
Deep Relaxation
Whadda Ya Know?
Shedding Negative Vibes
Being A Transformer
Getting Light
The Question of Trust
Bio-Energy
Chop Wood, Carry Water
Shame
Life Review
What’s This Whole Emptiness Thing?
A Healthier Routine
Mind In Sport
Why Can't Johnny Meditate?
The Folly Of Revenge
Feeling Feelings
Being Of The Light
Enlightening The Shadow
Writing As Meditation
Memory Shift
You Got A Problem?
The Spirit of Play
Interpretation
History, Herstory, Yourstory
Give Your Mind A Wide Pasture
Seeking Awareness of Awareness
The Fall On A Summer Day
Moving Out Of The State Of Anger
Getting Back to Baseline
Birthday Presence
Perception Projector
In Times Of Change
Inducements
Growing Beyond Our Problems
Listen Up!
A Weedless Garden
Kindness, Anyone?
Life After Death, And Before
Who's A Bodhisattva?
Breathing Calmly Together
Healing Imagery
Being A Friend
Building Your Sacred Space
The Touchables
The Four Directions
Soaring Spirit
Victimless Circumstances
Peace And War
Notice Your Focus
Patience
Unity Of All Life
100 Blessings A Day
Visualize World Peace
Recovering from Addiction to Anxiety
Belief vs. Skepticism
In Case Of Emergency, Breathe!
Whither Your Thoughts
Desire
Watch What You Hate
Meditation During Exercise
Inner Smile
Laughter
Grief
Entropy Blues
Entropy Blues, Part 2: Overcoming Entropy
Contemplation Of Death & Dying
How Do You Do What You Don’t Want To Do?
Planting The Seeds Of Dreaming
A Restful Sleep
What Are You Saying To Yourself?
Dancing Through Life. Life Through Dancing
Standing Like A Tree
Quiet Mind, Loving Mind
Paying The Bills
The Value of Work
Candle Meditation
Candle Meditation II
  Wholeness
Getting Over It
The River Of Life
Autogenics
Fallibility
Concentration Meditation
Hands Across The Chi
Labor Of Love
Stages Of Spiritual Development
Envy
Hara Meditation
Maya
Aversion
Empowered Humility
Mantra Meditation I
Mantra Meditation II
Mantra Mystery
Our Mother Nature
Breath Counting Meditation
Fear
Mindfulness
Forgiveness
Anger
Contentment
Equanimity
Tai Chi Untied
Listening To Anger
Cutting Your Losses
Meeting The Master Within
Driving Meditation
The Fruit Of Original Nature
Mental Detox
Persistence And Impermanence
Being Alone
Life Is But A Dream
Remembering To Be Present
Body Awareness
Listening
Munching Mindfully
Time Again
Time
Being There
A Touch of Compassion
Zazen
What Are We To Do
Cultivating Silence
Chanting
Praying
Living Well In A Messed Up World

The Agreements
Spiritual and Scientific
How Do You Measure Success?
Blossom Time
Downshifting
Path Of Light
Service
Beauty
Surfing The Wave Of Change
Living As If There Were No Tomorrow
Imaginary Acupuncture
Peace With God
Sitting Wobbly
Do The Next Right Thing 
Why Can't It Be Easy?
Body Map
Scanning With Higher Resolution 
Intention
What Is The Self?
Chasing Righteousness
Deflecting Thoughts
An Ambiguous Universe
Wake Up
Observing Negative Emotions
Peace Giving
Dynamic Equanimity
Dream Time Rewind
Dream Clearance
Retreating
Character
Who Are You Really?
A Rain of Peace And Goodness
Out with The Bad, In With The Good
Lifeline Exercise
Email As History

SNAFU Thinking
A Karmic Blowout

Stepping Out Of The Pattern

Life Between Breaths
Walking The Bodhisattva Walk
Meditation: Chore or Core?
Christian Contemplative And Centering Prayers
Play
Awareness Of Pleasure And Displeasure
Finding The Still Place
Considering Islam

How's Your Vibration?

Sounds
To Be One or Lost

Meditation Posture
Empowered Acceptance
Don't Just Do Something, Sit There.
On the Risk of Living
Optimist, Pessimist, or Not
Why Be Moral
Listen
Affirmations
Deep Waters, Clear And Quiet

Focus And Distraction
Gratitude And Joy
Staying Loose In Times Of Crisis
Time To Wake Up
Be Somewhere Else Now
What Do You Have In Mind?
Slowing
Spare Change?
Caught In The World Wide Web
Just Look And See
Your Worst Fear
Giving Up Hell
Optimist, Pessimist, Or Something Else
Imagine Perfect Health
Otherness
Flowing Body/Mind Energy: A Chakra Meditation
Group Mind
Body Awareness
Focus
Time To Upgrade Your Consciousness?
Spiritual Search Path
A Guide To Guided Imagery
Calm Mind, Loving Heart
Walking In Beauty
Spiritual Resistance
Getting Back To Basics
Mind Tuning
The Necessity Of Forgiving
Reconciliation
Inner Climate Control
The Art Of Hugging
The Five Aggregates
BodyMindSoul
In Search Of Adequacy
Love And Chaos
Strengthening Will
Sitting Down Doing Nothing
Compassionate Breathing
Sitting Like A Buoy
Precepts For Our Time
Not Attached, But Not Cut Off
Doing the Non-violent Thing
No Blame, No Pain 
Not I, Not Me, Not Mine
Self or No-Self 

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