by Craig Hamilton | Dec 22, 2020 | listen, Meditation, Q&A
At some point or another, nearly all meditators struggle with the challenge of an overactive mind. Most of us are aware that meditation requires us to find a way to disengage from our thoughts. But what happens when a flow of creative, insightful ideas suddenly...
by Craig Hamilton | Dec 3, 2020 | Evolution, Q&A, read
Question: When I’m awake to what you call “the evolutionary impulse,”I find that I care deeply for many things: the environment, the awakening of humanity, social justice, animal rights, and so on. I take responsibility to live lightly on the planet. I donate time...
by Craig Hamilton | Dec 3, 2020 | listen, Meditation, Q&A
Many spiritual practices advocate focusing your attention on the body in order to liberate your awareness from the mind. While these approaches are valuable, they probably won’t open you to the deeper dimensions of meditation practice: becoming aware of consciousness...
by Craig Hamilton | Nov 12, 2020 | listen, Meditation, Q&A
Meditation invites us to completely let go of the “need to know” and rest in the unknown. But is this stance of “unknowing” as passive as it sounds? In this audio, Craig explores the sense of patient expectancy that we can bring to meditation as we are attentive to...
by Craig Hamilton | Oct 31, 2020 | listen, Meditation, Q&A
We’ve all had the experience of meditating in a noisy, chaotic environment. We sit down to practice and it seems like the whole world is conspiring against the peace we’re trying to experience. Dogs bark. Cars roar by. Bugs buzz near our ears. So what do we do in the...
by Craig Hamilton | Oct 30, 2020 | Craig Hamilton, Q&A, read
Question: When engaging with friends and relatives with strongly conservative views about politics, spirituality, and religion, I find it quite difficult to maintain the conversation because there seems to be no common ground upon which to build consensus. I find it...