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“Chattering mind” is a Buddhist description of the human intelligence at its most undisciplined. Our minds chatter, grasp, struggle to understand. Too frequently, we define ourselves by these thoughts. We become these thoughts. And our lives become distorted and artificial. So why would I insult myself with the blog name “Chattering Mind?” Well, like you,…

I received a note from a woman who writes that her uncontrolled chatter “seems to be stemming from the rejection of someone I have been in love with.” “This person is not in love with me,” she goes on to say. “And all I can think about is the pain of the rejection. It is…

I gave up cigarettes when I was twenty-eight. Then I let the coffee drop. Strong Lipton tea? Yeah, that was bad. Now it’s down to green tea, white tea, and Kukicha twig. It sounds like I’m an old elk in deep winter, longing to chew bark! Actually–this is funny to me–while in college, I used…

I knew it was going to be a busy week, so I decided to stock up on groceries at The Park Slope Food Co-op immediately after dropping my young Chatterings at school. Forty-five minutes later, I’d accumulated an admirably large and healthy haul–two carts worth in fact–of whole foods goodies, including two fifteen pound pumpkins…
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