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February 21, 2011During the last few weeks, my life seemed impossible. I was grumpy and sour. If life is equal to capacity...
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January 15, 2011Last Saturday, in meditation, I merged with the heavy guilt seizing my body. Moving through the outer layers, I touched...
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November 24, 2010After looking very bleak just a week ago, things are quickly falling into place. I’ve been through this before numerous...
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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 19, 2010Look up. Set aside the empty box and the packing tape. The sky is a a rich gleaming yellow with...
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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, 2010 Ripples 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...
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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....
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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...
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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....
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.