Monday Meditation
We Are the Instrument
Discover how meditation, mindfulness, and reflection reveal the mind’s depth – because we are the instrument of awareness.
November 10, 2025
Monday Meditations are weekly reflections that weave together philosophy, personal experience, and timeless wisdom. Each post explores a central theme—resilience, impermanence, risk, gratitude – using stories from everyday life, history, and spiritual traditions. Designed to ground readers at the start of the week, these meditations invite pause, perspective, and mindful action.
Discover how meditation, mindfulness, and reflection reveal the mind’s depth – because we are the instrument of awareness.
Learning when to persist or pivot is the art of mindful decision-making and personal clarity.
A reflection on learning to release old patterns, tools, and fears to continue life’s journey unburdened.
Exploring the invisible threads of our 300,000-year lineage and what it means to belong to deep human time.
Storms test us. From Buddha’s calm beneath the Bodhi tree to modern mindfulness practices, this piece explores how training the mind transforms chaos into clarity
Mind-Body Gardening explores how tuning our inner instrument—through rest, nutrition, movement, reflection, and connection—creates fertile soil for insight and joy.
Rosh Hashanah and the Ryder Cup reveal surprising parallels in redemption, reflection, and the call for a reset.
“The One” – rare flow moments where risk, presence, and meaning converge.
Big wave surfing at Nazaré reveals powerful lessons on risk tolerance, fear, resilience, and presence in life’s pursuits.
Explore how autumn teaches letting go, revealing hidden gifts and freedom through release in this week’s meditation.
Discover how tikkun olam teaches us to find the light within ourselves and repair the world through inner healing.
Ritual and routine anchor us against life’s chaos, creating structure, meaning, and growth through disciplined daily practice.
Reflect on the roots of hope and optimism, and learn how daily rhythms nurture these essential qualities for resilience.
Summer’s heat teaches us to pause, reflect, and lean into rest as a deeper form of growth and mindfulness.
Competition sharpens presence and reveals truth – why stepping into the arena transforms pressure into resilience and growth.
Cultivation is a life practice: seed intention, nurture beginnings, sustain bloom, and celebrate harvest with community and heart.
Reframe Phil Stutz’s Life Force Pyramid as an engine of body, self, and others working together for growth.
Identify and fix life’s “leaks” – small inefficiencies that drain energy and progress – through insights from cycling and cultivation.
Explore Independence Day as a mirror for personal freedom, uncovering blind spots and breaking free from inner tyranny.
The summer solstice reminds us: embrace life’s highlights with gratitude, then let go and return to mindful rhythms.
Uncertainty can feel heavy, but surrendering to the present moment transforms it into resilience, acceptance, and gratitude.
Suffering often signals it’s time to change. Turning the page brings freedom, renewal, and space for growth.
Radical acceptance means facing reality with humility, resilience, and grit, transforming loss into strength and growth.
Inspired by student entrepreneurs, this meditation explores the fearless spark of creativity, risk, and the magic of making something out of nothing.
A reflection on Decoration Day, flowers as symbols of fleeting beauty, and the meditation on interconnectedness, memory, and life.
Discover how sleep, plant rhythms, and meditation on impermanence reveal the cycle of day and night as profound practice.
Reflect on the power of nurture in parenting, business, and nature, and discover how daily care creates growth and balance.
Twilight, the half-light between day and night, offers a profound chance for presence, reflection, and mindful gratitude.
A bitter TCM herbal brew evolves into ritual, revealing how trust in healing, relationships, and nature creates stability and grace.
Lilacs, Easter, and Mary Oliver’s “Wild Geese” inspire reflection on renewal, seasonal rebirth, and life’s ongoing call to rise again.
Inspired by Rory McIlroy’s Masters win and local golf struggles, this meditation explores resilience, nerves, and the courage to persevere.
Pablo Neruda’s “Keeping Quiet” teaches stillness amid chaos, reminding us that silence, breath, and presence restore peace and balance.
A Buddhist parable of a blind turtle inspires reflection on life’s rarity, balancing samsara’s struggles with presence and spiritual homecoming.