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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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June 2, 2010Watching unpleasant emotions quickly turn into raw energy, the key seems to be seeing through concepts.
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May 30, 2010Mental imagery of the social landscape is just mental imagery. What do you have and hold when you love?
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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 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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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 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, 2010Yesterday, I was sitting on a bench out on a boardwalk suspended over a cattail marsh. I felt so absolutely...
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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 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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March 29, 2010On the paradox of finding wholeness and redemption in the fact that we make mistakes.
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March 20, 2010 Enter the real “now” by letting go of your concepts of the present.
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March 1, 2010Sunday morning I woke up contemplating the process of grief. Thoughts of former loves constantly fill my mind. When I...
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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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February 17, 2010 An integration of Zen emptiness with New Age form offers one approach to healing our collective samsara.
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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 24, 2010What happens when we treasure someone too much? A story of discovering the divine by crushing illusions.
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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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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 1, 2009Reaching out for help can inadvertently foster the collective perception that we are all struggling to save ourselves.
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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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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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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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It’s frustrating when people cast our traits and behaviors in the worst possible light. We feel misunderstood… The same...
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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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On the verge of seeing through his illusory reality, the main character of The Truman Show has a veritable nervous...
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In Buddhism, samsara refers to a certain way of experiencing reality that involves an endless creation of mental worlds, or...
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You are War and Peace, Pride and Prejudice, and yet most people assume you are only three pages long. They...
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Accepting who you are is like recognizing the value of a cat even if you are a dog lover.
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Driving down University Avenue, I look around at people in the other cars, and everyone is in their own world. ...
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Why Bliss FadesOctober 16, 2008 I’ve experienced intermittent periods of bliss and tranquility, perceptions that everything is perfect and whole just as it is, and...