by Tony Zampella | Dec 16, 2024 | Spirituality, Wisdom
In my previous blog, I introduced the “flood” — the overwhelming distractions, disconnection, and dissatisfaction of our time. Shaped by mechanistic and digital worldviews, this “flood” – creating a crisis of meaning – conditions us to prioritize consumption,...
by Tony Zampella | Nov 25, 2024 | Spirituality, Wisdom
About a decade ago, I noticed a troubling pattern in my coaching practice. Clients began arriving at sessions drained, fragmented, and deeply distracted. The rapid ascent of technology appeared to play a significant role, fostering issues such as cognitive load,...
by Tony Zampella | Aug 26, 2024 | Spirituality
About 10 years ago, I noticed a pattern in my coaching practice: Clients arrived at sessions more drained, exhausted, fragmented, and increasingly distracted. As I inquired about this, I uncovered how our seduction with technology had enabled a series of issues such...
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,...