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August 31, 2010Analyzing the data for my dissertation is highlighting for me the limits of intellectual knowing. Welcome to the Zen of...
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May 23, 2010An otherwordly contentment filled my day today. Something that should have caused me sadness brought me peace and tenderness instead. ...
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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 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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March 29, 2010On the paradox of finding wholeness and redemption in the fact that we make mistakes.
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February 23, 2010Learn to move with the feelings in your body, approaching them directly rather than through thought.
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January 16, 2010For nearly a year, twice every month, I attended an event in town known as the Barefoot Boogie. Set in...
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January 10, 2010One of the most potent forces that can close the heart is another’s apathy. We invoke apathy in response to...
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November 25, 2009I have watched the movie You’ve Got Mail every week for two months. One might think I find it appealing...
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November 9, 2009Certain needs tend to evoke emotional responses that make the situation worse in a way that aggravates the need, which...
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November 6, 2009 I want to contact that which is real in others, but the meeting of minds never lasts. The souls who...
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November 2, 2009Being in total darkness recently took on new meaning for me. Rock bottom is not necessarily a bad place to...
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October 29, 2009 In his book, I Am a Strange Loop, Douglas Hofstadter proposes that the essence or soul of a person can...
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October 27, 2009Some relationships end with a clean break, and others end slowly, the way a garden reaches its final days. ...
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How to reach the non-conceptual state described in Dzogchen Buddhism by understanding how concepts are confused with perception and using...
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You may have won many battles with depression. Why can’t you win the war? A new way to...
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“What if you let go of every bit of control and every urge that you have,” asks Adyashanti, “right down...
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Dancing with LoveNovember 18, 2008 I recently went to a Tai Chi center where a group of about fifteen or more people gather every so...
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.