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September 6, 2010I have been inadvertently weeding out potential suitors with a sort of Buddhist IQ test. When I first moved to...
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April 28, 2010If you ask for healing, watch your thoughts. Sometimes the divine speaks with our own inner voice.
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April 27, 2010Moments of unconditional opening that arise in romantic love offer a taste of the tantric approach to all of life.
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April 7, 2010How to identify healthy forms of emotional support and healers that are empowering rather than disempowering.
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March 29, 2010On the paradox of finding wholeness and redemption in the fact that we make mistakes.
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March 23, 2010Today I felt my Beloved in the soil under my feet and in the bark on the trees.
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March 7, 2010 Where does suffering originate, and how does one eliminate it?
A psychiatrist is someone who, seeing an unusually sad character on...
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February 27, 2010Today, I stopped praying for things to get easier. It just occurred to me that it wasn’t necessary. For many...
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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, 2010An integration of Zen emptiness with New Age form offers one approach to healing our collective samsara.
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February 14, 2010If you are beset by a negative self-image, especially one that is self-fulfilling and reflected back to you by others...
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January 30, 2010When peace and tranquility, bliss even, begins to fill most every moment, healing feels complete. These past few weeks, I’ve...
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January 24, 2010What happens when we treasure someone too much? A story of discovering the divine by crushing illusions.
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January 22, 2010An encounter with Buddhist fundamentalism reminds me to look for the hidden teaching in every moment.
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January 20, 2010 A poem about the effortlessness of divine love followed by an essay on surrender by EnlightenedBeings.com
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January 19, 2010Rather than an eye for an eye, karma can be seen as an act of love.
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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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January 2, 2010At the center of the earth is an iron core. The inner core is solid yet hotter than the surface...
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December 17, 2009On a walk through the park along Lake Wingra, I was contemplating the nature of deep transformation. I imagined a...
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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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December 3, 2009What if some experiences that look like personal failures are actually markers of spiritual growth?
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November 17, 2009In 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 waking...
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A meditation designed to cultivate compassion that is free from selfish motivations. Especially useful for having compassion for those who...
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On the verge of seeing through his illusory reality, the main character of The Truman Show has a veritable nervous...
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A Love Story?October 5, 2009 The greatest love story is not about getting everything you want or creating feelings of union, but cherishing the well...
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Once you’ve been burned, it’s hard to come close to the fire. There is light and warmth but also the...
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Keep your heart open when you want to close it, and you will find that the heart needs no shielding.
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The struggle between loving and wanting to be loved is delicate and sometimes confusing but ultimately rife with beautiful life...
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Serious AngelFebruary 4, 2009 During my recent silent meditation retreat, one evening while sitting in the dining hall, it occurred to me that, although...