Suffering Effectively: Reflections on the Buddha’s First Noble Truth

Suffering Effectively: Reflections on the Buddha’s First Noble Truth I first heard the phrase effective suffering from meditation teacher Shinzen Young, who used it in a story he told about the renowned Christian contemplative Thomas Merton.[1] Merton lived quite a bohemian life before he converted to [...]

A Practice in Conscious Aging: Integrity In our second issue of Sage-ing Times we turn our focus to Integrity, one of the ten Qualities of Sages in Service. We practice integrity by being genuine and true to ourselves, being honest and trustworthy in relations with others, and being [...]

My Personal Paradigm Shift Without a doubt, the transition to elderhood is a time often marked by the loss of professional work and identity, the death of loved ones, changes to our physical bodies, and both planned or unplanned geographical moves. Yet, many of us [...]

Conscious Aging vs Positive Aging Which camp are you in – conscious aging or positive aging? My sense is that we are more drawn to one than the other. This is a great topic of discussion for us Boomers in particular, as these two philosophies [...]

A Practice in Conscious Aging: Open Communication In each issue we will highlight a Sage-ing practice that you may find valuable to implement in your own life. While many of us probably consider ourselves to be good communicators and may have even taken seminars on [...]

Lenses "The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeing new landscapes, but in having new eyes." - Marcel Proust Most of us are wearing glasses these days, for reading at least, though some of us live with our glasses stable over our ears and [...]

Grandmother Wombs I. Grandmother My grandmother gave birth to a daughter who gave birth to a daughter. In my grandmother’s womb, the growing baby generated the entire collection of eggs her ovaries would naturally hold. The potential for my existence was floating somewhere inside a [...]