Mark Coleman
Mark Coleman has practiced Buddhist meditation since 1984. He is on the Spirit Rock Teachers Council, and has been teaching Insight Meditation retreats since 1997. He also leads wilderness meditation retreats from Alaska to Peru, integrating mindfulness meditation with nature.
Mark is a psychotherapist, life-coach, and mindfulness consultant to corporations. He is an avid outdoor enthusiast and passionate about combining the forces of meditation, silence, and nature.
Mark's books include A Field Guide to Nature Meditation: 52 Mindfulness Practices for Joy, Wisdom and Wonder, Awake in the Wild: Mindfulness in Nature as a Path of Self-Discovery, Make Peace with your Mind: How Mindfulness and Compassion Can Free You from Your Inner Critic, From Suffering to Peace: The True Promise of Mindfulness .
For more information, visit www.markcoleman.org
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Featured Audio Talk
June 05, 2017 - Understanding the 4 Foundations of Mindfulness from an
early Buddhist Perspective
When we reflect on the elemental nature of the body in the first foundation of mindfulness, we’re seeing the interconnected nature of our experience. Our mind and ego functions through constriction, a narrowing of attention to this mind-body. We create the sense of self we wrap our lives around, and believe ourselves to be independent, fixed, and separate. Taking a walk, we have the experience “I am taking a walk through the park,” as if wherever we are is separate from our body. But we are the earth’s moving surface, looking at itself, tied by gravity. And we literally—not just metaphorically—come from the earth.