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Five Precepts: “Bring Your Whole Self to the Experience”
Have you started at the beginning? Have you read my first two posts on the 5 precepts of being a compassionate companion? If you haven’t seen the my introduction or the First precept, please click...
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My Favorite Shape
(Photo credit: Wikipedia) My first real experience with this shape was in high school. I was in a program that combined peer counseling, leadership training, and learning how to provide a day camp...
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I’d love to tell you. . .
“Don’t grieve. Anything you lose comes round in another form.” Rumi I would SO love to tell you, “Yeah, don’t grieve. It’s not spiritually necessary or enlightened. We are transcendent beings....
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Bring Mindfulness into your Every Day
A Post-it note is a piece of stationery with a re-adherable strip of adhesive on the back, designed for temporarily attaching notes to documents and other surfaces. Although now available in a wide...
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Need more proof?
Meditating in Madison Square Park, Manhattan, New York City (Photo credit: Wikipedia) Still not satisfied that meditation can benefit you in a whole bodied, interpersonal, spiritual way? Here is more...
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The Nine Contemplations of Atisha – Six
(Photo credit: Wikipedia) Your body is fragile and vulnerable. The Sixth of the Nine Contemplations of Atisha. . . your body is fragile and vulnerable. Think about how easily we can be overcome by...
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Our Suffering
The subtle suffering in our lives may seem unimportant. But if we attend to the small ways that we suffer, we create a context of greater ease, peace, and responsibility, which can make it easier to...
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Praying For What We Want or Don’t Want
“If we examine our motives honestly, we will usually find that there is some sort of fear inspiring our prayers. We are afraid of something. And we are asking to be protected from whatever we are...
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Yes, I am still alive
Wow, this summer has been 10 times crazier than I ever would have thought. I snapped the photo above when I was running errands about 10 days ago. Even when it’s busy, you’ve gotta stop and check...
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The Nine Contemplations of Atisha – Four
Atisha with Twenty-eight of the Eighty-four Mahasiddhas. (Photo credit: Wikipedia) Your life span, like that of all living beings, is not fixed I find what our assumptions are about death fascinating....
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