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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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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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August 13, 2010I found a book in an old box that made me realize what the last three years of my life...
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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 4, 2010 A table of observations on how specific emotions transform automatically into blissful energy.
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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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May 4, 2010The notion of psychic boundaries reminds me of the boy who lived his life in a bubble. Protection is lovely,...
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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 15, 2010Thoughts on how the outer world reflects the inner world and the intricacies of manifestation.
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March 19, 2010Ripples from a monumental act of love now fill my world. In the presence of profound kindness, every molecule of...
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March 7, 2010Where 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 23, 2010Learn to move with the feelings in your body, approaching them directly rather than through thought.
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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 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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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 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 27, 2010When there is no way to make things right, love and courage illuminate what never falls apart.
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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 20, 2010A poem about the effortlessness of divine love followed by an essay on surrender by EnlightenedBeings.com
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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 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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January 7, 2010Who do we turn to in times of need? Reflections on loss return me, somehow, to a state of bliss.
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January 5, 2010What happens when the unshakeable peace is suddenly shaken? When we lose the sense that everything is okay?
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December 26, 2009The ultimate goal of the spiritual path is to become lucid. Mindfulness meditation, the favored technique for beginners, is a...
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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 1, 2009Reaching out for help can inadvertently foster the collective perception that we are all struggling to save ourselves.
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November 23, 2009I woke up one morning feeling as though I’d been impaled on a spike, helpless, vulnerable, and shivering with agony. ...
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November 18, 2009 My week was full of noise and chatter, from outside, from within. In such environs, the craving for solace is...
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Regular stories and reflections from my journey through this communal reality as I follow the path of the waking heart.
Tales...
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About DzogchenNovember 4, 2009 Dzogchen Practice in Everyday Life
by HH Dilgo Khyentse Rinpoche
Source: www.nyingma.com
The everyday practice of dzogchen is simply to develop a complete...
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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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A meditation designed to cultivate compassion that is free from selfish motivations. Especially useful for having compassion for those who...
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MeditationsOctober 26, 2009 Following is a list of the specific meditation practices that have worked well for me in the past. In particular,...
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True ListeningOctober 26, 2009 A meditation for when you feel lonely or alienated from someone you care about, and you can’t talk to them....
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October 26, 2009Why it feels so impossible to have compassion for those who cause injury or evoke repulsion and how to reconcile...
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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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Stepping BackOctober 13, 2009 Whatever you can step back from and hold in awareness is not you, the pure awareness. In meditation, one...
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Sacred AlchemyOctober 8, 2009 No causal chain of events can turn lead into gold. The sacred alchemy lies in transcending our ordinary mode...