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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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July 27, 2010The water’s fine! The expanded self, or luminosity–entering it is like learning to dive into a river. Over time and...
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June 25, 2010 Your body carries a record of your past experiences, some deep and old and intense, but the past no longer...
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March 20, 2010Enter the real “now” by letting go of your concepts of the present.
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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 3, 2010When we experience pain, we create a pain self. This pain self is connected to a subset of our usual...
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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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February 23, 2010Learn to move with the feelings in your body, approaching them directly rather than through thought.
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February 21, 2010We are never cut off from love. I say farewell to a former love and find that exclusion feels good.
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February 16, 2010In this frozen moment, your warm consciousness finds all existence waiting.
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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 3, 2010There comes a time when the dark forces in your life step into the light, remove their masks, and reveal...
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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 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, 2010 One 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 4, 2010How do we continue to love those from whom we are estranged? Should we remain open to those who move...
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December 30, 2009 Once upon a time…
I paused. That was all I had so far. My son asked for a bedtime story, but...
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December 24, 2009Can one respond to suffering the way a cat responds to falling off a roof? While meditating one night recently,...
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December 22, 2009The 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 7, 2009 Why 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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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 26, 2009It helps to know precisely what you believe in and to hold these truths in your heart when others fail...
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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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Yesterday morning, I was on my way to spend time with a friend who was offering companionship during a time...