KINDNESS & COMPASSION FOR THE SELF AND OTHERS - By Pierre Zimmerman Our capacity for empathy, lovingkindness, compassion and altruistic behavior is inborn, rather than acquired through socialization or cultural exposure. Compassion is what makes an empathic...
PRESENCE – By Pierre Zimmerman 7/1/21
PRESENCE - By Pierre Zimmerman Presence is moment to moment awareness and attunement with oneself and others. We are relational beings, our brains are wired as such, and healthy present-centered relationships are necessary for wellbeing. Injuries and suffering happen...
Recent “Unfixed Podcast” with Pierre Zimmerman
Pierre Zimmerman recently made a recording with "Unfixed Podcast" featuring Dylan, a writer and naturopathic and Chinese medicine doctor, who was diagnosed with ALS, a terminal disease, in 2017. Read more about their discussion of suffering and grace, and listen to...
DIMENSIONS OF WELLBEING – By Pierre Zimmerman 6/1/21
DIMENSIONS OF WELLBEING - By Pierre Zimmerman Let’s look at the dimensions of wellbeing from the point of view of qualities of mind and heart that can be trained in as essential skills. Wellbeing is complex, has many factors that contribute to it with contemplative...
INNER KNOWING – By Pierre Zimmerman 5/1/21
INNER KNOWING - By Pierre Zimmerman We discover ourselves through connection with others, and when this is absent, we become a stranger to ourselves. The experience of emotional resonance is familiar to almost everyone, because mirror neurons allow us to know in a...
On Meditation – By Pierre Zimmerman 4/1/21
On Meditation - By Pierre Zimmerman The main point of meditation is to get to know ourselves: our mind, our behavior, our ground of being. We think we know ourselves, but actually we often don’t, because everything around us changes constantly and hopefully we do too....
Sunday 4/11 Meditation w Pierre Live at Caffe Lena
Caffe Lena has always been a respite from the world, a place of healing and peace... On 4/11/21 Dharma Meditation with Pierre Zimmerman returns to an IN PERSON format LIVE at Caffe Lena! MEETINGS will be held SUNDAYS from 9am-10:15am. Lenas is located at 47 Phila St....
LOOSENING THE GRIP OF OUR LIMITING CORE BELIEFS – By Pierre Zimmerman 3/1/21
LOOSENING THE GRIP OF OUR LIMITING CORE BELIEFS By Pierre Zimmerman Our core beliefs are often based on our earliest and potent fears, lodged in our brain from early childhood on. They are based on strong assumptions, conclusions and conditioned survival skills that...
KARMA – By Pierre Zimmerman 2/1/21
KARMA - By Pierre Zimmerman Every action has a cause and result in terms of the mind, not just in terms of external circumstances. Everything that exists is the result of cause and effect. Karma is not destiny, nor a life sentence. People lack understanding when they...
SEEING THE WORLD AND OURSELVES THROUGH AN ETHICAL LENS – By Pierre Zimmerman 1/1/21
SEEING THE WORLD AND OURSELVES THROUGH AN ETHICAL LENS - By Pierre Zimmerman A care-based, ethical path involves connectedness and meaning, which engenders presence and authenticity. Connectedness is being in relationship with other sentient beings. Meaning is the...
