Student Writings

Our ‘core beliefs’ are a central theme of Joko’s posthumous collection of essays. As she explains, they originate in our childhood, they are not true, and they are always negative, i.e. some version of ‘I feel worthless’.

Reality is an emptiness that lies behind the delusions of our sense perceptions and mental constructs. This is also true of the stories we weave about our selves and about others

Lately, I’ve come to appreciate fast walking as a meditation. Walking around in circles seems to mirror the day-to-day hurriedness of life between work and home, and from task to task