Beyond the Ballot: The Inner Work of the Common Good
Lily Rockefeller reflects on contemplative practice, interdependence, and the inner work of building the common good beyond election results.
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Lily Rockefeller
Memento Mori: Remembering Death to Embolden Life
What would we do differently if we remembered that our time was limited? Which grievances would we let go, which relationships would we tend, and which things we have been postponing would suddenly become urgent?
Happiness: A Spiritual & Scientific Inquiry
We spend much of our lives trying to become happy: pursuing achievement, security, recognition, and pleasurable experiences, while hoping to avoid pain, uncertainty, and loss. Yet even when circumstances go our way, sustained contentment can prove surprisingly elusive. Why? And is there a deeper form of well-being that does not depend so heavily on the external events that happen to us?
A Methodology for Art and Awakening
For pioneering composer, singer, and interdisciplinary artist Meredith Monk, the boundary between her artistic practice and her dharma practice has increasingly dissolved.
Garrison Co-founder Explores Contemplation to Action on Tricycle’s Podcast
Recently, Garrison Institute co-founder and urban planner Jonathan F.P. Rose was invited to “Life As It Is,” the podcast of Tricycle: The Buddhist Review. Co-hosted by Tricycle’s Editor-in-Chief James Shaheen and renowned mindfulness teacher Sharon Salzberg, the conversation explores Jonathan’s path to Buddhism, the founding and evolution of the Garrison Institute, and the ways contemplative practice can shape how we respond to social and environmental challenges.
AI, Spirituality, and What It Means to Be Human: Part II
We continue our two-part series on the Artificial Intelligence and Our Spiritual Imagination conference, held online October 17-18. We invited our speakers to sit with the same two questions to showcase the variety of perspectives, inquiries, and ways of knowing that will shape our conversations at the conference this fall.
AI, Spirituality, and What It Means to Be Human: Part I
As we prepare for the upcoming Artificial Intelligence and Our Spiritual Imagination
conference, held virtually October 17-18, we invited our speakers to sit with the same
two questions to showcase the variety of perspectives, inquiries, and ways of knowing
that will shape our conversations at the conference this fall.
Skymind and Shadow: Illuminating Reality with a Vast Mind
What if the darkest corners of ourselves, the places we most want to avoid, are actually lighting a path to greater freedom?
Accompanying Suffering: The Science Behind Contemplative Care
Not every challenge in medicine has a clinical solution. Illness, grief, uncertainty, and loss all ask something of clinicians that extends beyond their ability to diagnose and treat: the capacity to be present in the face of suffering.
Beyond the Individual: Ecodharma and the Relational Mind
The environmental crisis is often described in the language of science, economics, or public policy. Less frequently do we ask what kind of mind produces a civilization capable of destabilizing the ecological systems upon which it depends.
Exploring the Intelligence of Somatic Practice
Somatic Experiencing® practitioner and meditation instructor Kathy Cherry’s retreat at Garrison Institute this week, “Beyond Calm: The Intelligence of Presence” engages somatic work, a growing field that focuses on the connection between the physical body and mental health. Kathy sat down with us to answer some questions for readers curious to learn more about this innovative field and her work within it.