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Mindfulness for kitchens, cubicles, soccer field sidelines—and crowded urban transit.
Allen Ginsberg was a student of the Tibetan Buddhist teacher Chögyam Trungpa. Trungpa grew up in a monastery in Tibet, lived in monastic communities in India, and often taught at meditation retreats. Ginsberg lived on the Lower East Side and got around by subway.
So Trungpa gave him instructions for how to meditate on the train.
Mindfulness practice does often happen in serene rooms on cushions. But LeBron James practices on the bench in raucous arenas and Jerry Seinfeld does transcendental meditation before and after comedy sets. CEOs who meditate include Marc Benioff, Jeff Weiner, and Arianna Huffington.
This book asks teachers and students alike, how can meditation work—not on retreat, but on the streets; not at the edges of the action but in the middle of it—in professional settings and domestic ones, in situations from the joyful and to the mundane? Some lessons do come from the world of gongs, incense, and tatami mats. Others come from ERs, trading floors, boardrooms and cockpits. But all of them can sharpen attention, deepen perspective, and widen compassion.
Mindfulness for kitchens, cubicles, soccer field sidelines—and crowded urban transit.
Allen Ginsberg was a student of the Tibetan Buddhist teacher Chögyam Trungpa. Trungpa grew up in a monastery in Tibet, lived in monastic communities in India, and often taught at meditation retreats. Ginsberg lived on the Lower East Side and got around by subway.
So Trungpa gave him instructions for how to meditate on the train.
Mindfulness practice does often happen in serene rooms on cushions. But LeBron James practices on the bench in raucous arenas and Jerry Seinfeld does transcendental meditation before and after comedy sets. CEOs who meditate include Marc Benioff, Jeff Weiner, and Arianna Huffington.
This book asks teachers and students alike, how can meditation work—not on retreat, but on the streets; not at the edges of the action but in the middle of it—in professional settings and domestic ones, in situations from the joyful and to the mundane? Some lessons do come from the world of gongs, incense, and tatami mats. Others come from ERs, trading floors, boardrooms and cockpits. But all of them can sharpen attention, deepen perspective, and widen compassion.