by Tony Zampella | May 16, 2023 | Practice
The annual World Happiness Report has ranked nations on an international happiness index since 2011. Published last month, the 2023 report ranks Finland as the happiest country in the world—for the sixth consecutive year! Many opinions exist, but if you ask Finns why...
by Tony Zampella | Jan 9, 2023 | Practice
The notion of slowing down has become a common refrain over the past decade. And at the beginning of a new year, it makes sense to contemplate our pace of life. Reflecting on the speed of change and volume of information and complexity can leave us more fragmented....
by Tony Zampella | Nov 14, 2022 | Practice, Spirituality
In this final blog, I connect a few important concepts related to restoring wisdom to mindfulness via Buddhist psychology. Recall that, in Part 3, I introduced the Four Noble Truths. We see mindfulness in the training category of “mental discipline” in the Eightfold...
by Tony Zampella | Oct 31, 2022 | Practice, Spirituality
Once we move beyond McMindfulness, as discussed in Parts 1 and 2 of this blog series, we can explore the nature of mindfulness from its core teachings. In this part, I develop a pedagogy as a foundation for awakening. I’ve selected the most relevant core teachings,...
by Tony Zampella | Oct 17, 2022 | Practice, Spirituality
What is the cost of discarding the ethics and wisdom from mindfulness? Is there a way to restore the wisdom for lay practitioners or non-Buddhists? In Part 1 of this blog, I discussed the rise of McMindfulness that emerged from secular mindfulness techniques, which...
