The Wake Up Call for Lawyers
Mindfulness for the Legal Mind: a 10-minute talk plus 10 minutes of guided meditation. A brief refuge. The musings of a long-time lawyer, law professor, and mindfulness geek on lawyering from a mindful perspective. Tools to cultivate more joy, ease, and wellbeing in this crazy profession. Ideas to become even better at what you do, and save the world. A few minutes of peace every week, which you definitely deserve.
Episodes
204 episodes
Sending Some Love to Earth
I hear a lot about sending love to humans, being kind and appreciative and compassionate to teachers, loved ones, friends…even enemies. I hear less about sending love to the earth. Yet of all beings (if the earth is a being, and is...
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Season 9
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Episode 488
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19:53
Accessing Our Love, and Other Challenges
Are we “cultivating” love, compassion, and joy, or do we already have plenty and just need to access it? If we have plenty, and just need to learn how to access it, what’s in the way of doing that? For me, it’s wanting to hold onto...
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Season 9
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Episode 487
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19:55
Wisdom and Not-Wisdom in Action, Plus Sweet News
There’s “ordinary” news: market whiplash; leadership/not leadership; greed, hatred, and delusion. But there’s sweet news, too: the child of a friend and benefactor who cleans houses for living - a child who’s been planning to be a ...
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Season 9
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Episode 486
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16:21
Commitment Versus Attachment
When I feel committed, it gives me purpose, energy, direction. But to fulfill my commitment, especially if someone else is committed to the opposite cause, I need to understand all angles, all sides. I need to not let disdain and scor...
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Season 9
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Episode 485
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17:42
Signaling Safety with Mindful Communication
Signaling that we’re mindful, whether we’re speaking, writing, posting, or messaging, is simple.There’s no lying, denying, or blame. There’s no harm done. We’re remembering that what we say and do, matters. We’re not gossiping, just shar...
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Season 9
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Episode 484
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19:03
An Appropriate Response?
What is an appropriate response when I get something I don’t want, or don’t get what I do want?Bully the person I “think” is responsible? Chastise, criticize, frighten, and ruin them I’m following the Chief Justice and going with no....
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Season 9
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Episode 483
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19:57
Making Peace Out of Chaos
I don’t know what we can do in this moment except stay in the boat, and when we get tossed into the ocean, grab the hull and crawl back inside to safety. That’s how it feels to me right now.But I wonder if there’s another way to safety.<...
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Season 9
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Episode 482
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19:19
The Radical Act of Abandoning Hate
Emotions are running high. Western mindfulness, quoting Rumi, says, ill will, anger, even hate: “Welcome and entertain them all….They may be clearing us out for some new delight.”The ancient mindfulness texts aren’t as big on this. They ...
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Season 9
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Episode 481
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19:45
Love and Breathe, For Everyone’s Sake
If breath is the focus, the anchor, refuge from an uncertain world, then maybe love is the antidote.I’m not saying I know much about love other than that it feels absent in so many places, and crucial in even more. I do...
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Season 9
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Episode 480
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19:58
Patience is the Stronger Position
I’m wondering about patience these days:accepting that things are what they are.I’ve studied and tried to practice that kind of patiencewith friends and family and colleagues and studentsand the everyday vicissitudes of life,&nb...
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Season 9
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Episode 479
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20:41
Love and Intention, Even Now
This isn’t a moment when I can pay attention all the time: sometimes I just need to turn away, or walk away. But whether I’m engaged or disengaged, wisdom and love have their place.The question I’m workin...
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Season 9
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Episode 478
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20:11
Faith in An Appropriate Response
When I think of faith, it’s often faith in someone or something. But these days I’m thinking of faith in terms of believing that if I keep practicing, and we all keep practicing, then we’ll know the appropriate response, meaning, the right thin...
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Season 9
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Episode 477
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20:42
Resting Up for What’s Next
I have these moments when I feel like I should be doing more.Or at least doing something.But right now I’m not sure what to do, or how, or when. So instead, right now, for now, I’m taking care of myself. I...
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Season 9
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Episode 476
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20:00
Right Now, Don’t be Bothered by Anything
There are two ways I can see to relate to the world right now,if this is a moment that feels distressful. One is to be bothered by the world and also by the distress,and to work from that perspective…possibly with succe...
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Season 9
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Episode 475
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18:45
The Bigger the Space, the Easier it is to Care
I care, and then I turn away.I get busy, or I lose interest,or the crisis stops affecting me directly or never did, and I let my attention slip away.I’m being honest, but I’m not glad about it,because what I really w...
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Season 9
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Episode 474
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21:48
Beginning With Beginner’s Mind
I feel like I spend a lot of time – too much time – thinking I understand.Maybe we all do, even when we know everyone’s understandings are different.At the same time I think most of us knowthere’s a lot we can’...
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Season 9
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Episode 473
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19:53
Choosing a Theme for 2025
We could say that, depending on our political beliefs,beliefs about climate emergency,relationships to inequity,inner and outer resources,and what comes our way,our 2025 theme –the quality of heart and mindw...
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Season 9
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Episode 472
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20:10
Can We Talk About Faith?
Because there is always faith.It might be faith in our abilities.It might be faith in the wisdom that’s available to usevery once in a while. It might be faith in cause and effect:the way that, when we express frustration,no...
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Season 8
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Episode 471
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20:23
Letting Nature Bring Peace
Sometimes I naturally notice the calm and peacefulness of the closing of the year.More often there’s so much going on, either in my own life or around me, that I feelrestless, worried, a kind of agitation of body and mind that clouds...
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Season 8
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Episode 470
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20:17
Appreciating Slothfulness
Sometimes I have an endless supply of energy. But there are also times when my mind is sluggish, not bright. Life feels exhausting or boring or blah. Does this happen for you? The good thing is, when I turn my attent...
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Season 8
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Episode 469
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19:06
Sitting Above the Fray
I have this image of myself as being mindful, sitting above the fray. In my dreams.The truth is, I’m not above the fray at all,because the fray is my own mind.For example, it’s never my intention
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Season 8
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Episode 468
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19:41
Is it gratitude, or something else?
I want to say this is the season for gratitude,and that’s not wrong, but I’m also not 100%.I’m grateful, and I’m also confused and fearful and nauseous. Or I’m pedaling fast and furious, or hiding behind my screen.Greed, ha...
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Season 8
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Episode 467
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20:28
Seeing Clearly in Difficult Times
I’m finding that right now, practice can be challenging.It’s hard to get up an hour early in the dark.But that’s often the case. The bigger challenge right now is not the early dark mornings.It’s the lack of clarity tha...
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Season 8
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Episode 466
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20:05
Just Breathe
Whether you’re celebrating right now or mourning,I feel like the best idea might be to just take a breath. Maybe you’re thinking about what’s next,gathering friends, gathering forces. Amazing. And, wouldn’t it be good i...
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Season 8
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Episode 465
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20:39
Welcoming This Scary Moment: Happy Halloween. Happy Almost Election.
This year it feels like there are real live goblins in the streets. So maybe it’s an odd time to put out the welcome mat.But to me it feels like there’s no other choice. If we notice our internal goblins - fear, anxiety, and...
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Season 8
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Episode 464
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19:21
