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Most approaches to mindfulness begin by training attention. Mindfulness-Based Ethical Living (MBEL) begins by widening what attention includes: the fact that we do not live alone. Our lives are woven into other lives. What we do reaches others; what others do reaches us; and what we repeat...
Welcome to our July 2026 newsletter.
This month we feature articles by Jourdan Arenson, Jeffrey Fracher, Mike Slott, and David Whiteside/Tom Cummings.
Post Traumatic Growth from a Secular Buddhist PerspectiveJourdan Arenson explains how a secular Buddhist perspective offers a realistic approach to dealing with grief.
Mindfulness is a way of being and relating to our experience. It enables us to live our lives as vividly as possible, while deeply caring for ourselves, others and the world. Mindfulness can be practiced and embodied in each moment of our lives, not only during formal meditation practice, allowing us to notice whenever reactivity arises. Whether interacting with family, frien...
In 1931, in the midst of an economic depression in which millions of people in the US were suffering from unemployment, poverty, and hunger, coal miners in Harlan County, Kentucky fought for better wages, safe conditions, and recognition of their union, the United Mine Workers. This was a bitter and violent struggle. The coal mine operators, backed by local police, private se...
Most mornings for 27 years, I woke up, rolled over and snuggled with my darling wife. Very rarely did I wake up alone. Then she died of cancer.
In the two years between her diagnosis and her death, I did my best to console her every morning. Then, one morning I woke up alone. I realized how much waking up next to her had consoled me.
I now awake every morn...