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March 26, 2011What does it mean to be the vast, singular awareness while simultaneously living in a physical body? In innumerable physical...
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June 25, 2010Your body carries a record of your past experiences, some deep and old and intense, but the past no longer...
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June 6, 2010You cannot ask the universe for something if you cannot conceive of it. In November of last year, I went...
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June 1, 2010Moments of luminous awareness, or awakening, are often described as an opening beyond oneself that encompasses everything just as it...
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May 28, 2010Pointing to the moon is tricky when its light is found within, but don’t let that stop you.
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May 26, 2010The deepest healing occurs when we open to the possibility that our perspective can change.
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April 30, 2010Is your heart heavy today? I could feel its weight just as the clouds began to fill the sky. A...
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April 24, 2010In the course of mediation, when periods of awakening arise, is that something you can make your new identity?
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April 19, 2010Forgiveness and redemption are healing, but you can still find wholeness even when others cannot offer it.
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April 15, 2010Thoughts on how the outer world reflects the inner world and the intricacies of manifestation.
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April 10, 2010A recurrent dreams foretells a shift. As the feminine regains wholeness, the masculine faces storms ahead.
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April 2, 2010Archetypal wisdom on how women’s “falling apart” can open the doors to awakening.
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March 20, 2010Enter the real “now” by letting go of your concepts of the present.
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Below are accounts of awakening (e.g., satori, moksha, nirvana, enlightenment) reprinted from various sources, such as Zen Flesh, Zen Bones,...
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February 17, 2010 An integration of Zen emptiness with New Age form offers one approach to healing our collective samsara.
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February 7, 2010Take a breath. Feel the air enter your body. Embrace every sensation, thought, and emotion coursing through you in this...
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February 2, 2010 Finishing Jan’s book. And waking up more fully, more deeply. Dawn taking root. The holy fallout which I read about...
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January 31, 2010I’m learning to ground myself in something deeper. I’ve been reading more of Jan’s book (When Fear Falls Away, by...
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January 27, 2010When there is no way to make things right, love and courage illuminate what never falls apart.
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January 24, 2010 What happens when we treasure someone too much? A story of discovering the divine by crushing illusions.
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January 14, 2010I am being reassembled. The process is unmistakeable. It’s not over yet, but I feel myself entering a final phase,...
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December 22, 2009 The function of compassion for those who feel cut off is to return them to the whole. This is not...
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December 17, 2009Among the most excruciating suffering one can endure is social death. Where does compassion fit in?
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December 7, 2009Why does awakening fade? When even attempts to surrender fail to reproduce it, I realize I am not in charge.
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The Places That Scare You: A Guide to Fearlessness in Difficult Times by Pema Chodron Explore one of Machig Labdron’s...
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November 24, 2009The greatest healers in my life do not even know they are healing me, and most of the time, neither...
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November 17, 2009 In total love, there are no thoughts of self. Hence, one does not think, “My heart is awake.” Rather, we...
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The Path of the Waking Heart When one opens unconditionally to love, pain, and desire, an aching heart becomes a...
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Waking Heart is a collection of personal essays, articles, and videos about love, relationships, and emotion in the domain of...
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PhilosophyOctober 10, 2009 We begin with a belief in separation, and we think oneness is the illusion. One day we realize we have...
Written by an embodiment psychologist, Zen Buddhist, and single mother, "Waking Heart" is a diary of synchronicities, lessons both learned and forgotten, accidental awakenings, and the cultivation of love.