Mary Oliver wrote this poem about when life is over. This poem arrived yesterday from Zen Master Cheri Huber in her daily Peace Quote email. When it’s over, I want to say: All my life I was a bride married to amazement. I was the bridegroom, taking the world into my arms – Mary Oliver […]
Archives for February 2015
9 Steps for Transforming Fear with Spiritual Surrender | Lissa Rankin
9 Steps for Transforming Fear with Spiritual Surrender | Lissa Rankin.
Engaging in Deep Listening
Dear Brothers and Sisters, I hope you are all well and warm on this winter morning. I know that with all of the hatred, anger and violence that is manifesting in our world, we are all looking deeply at how to engage effectively so that we can be of some help. I would like to […]
How Do We Make the New Future
Stephen Batchelor is one of my favorite Buddhist teachers. I like the way he presents “Buddhism without Beliefs.” I think he is now teaching at the Upaya Zen Center near Santa Fe, New Mexico. This quote is definitely in line with his stand on being a Buddhist atheist! He answers the question, how do we […]
If You Want to be Happy Be Grateful
The one thing all humans have in common is that each of us wants to be happy, says Brother David Steindl-Rast, a Benedictine monk and interfaith scholar. And happiness, he suggests, is born from gratitude. If you want to be happy be grateful. The Dalai Lama puts it this way: I believe that the purpose […]
The Work That Reconnects | February 24, 2015
The Work That Reconnects | February 24, 2015 This is a dark time, filled with suffering and uncertainty. Like living cells in a larger body, it is natural that we feel the trauma of our world. So don’t be afraid of the anguish you feel, or the anger or fear, because these responses arise […]
Healing with the Seven Principles of Mindfulness
Seven Principles of Mindfulness in Healing The Seven Principles of Mindfulness in Healing have been formulated over the past 38 years – ever since my son was stricken with metastatic kidney cancer at the age of seven. Up until now, they have been implicit in everything I did for my son and for myself. When […]
Desire-Based Meditation
You probably haven’t heard of desire-based meditation before. I didn’t either. Until yesterday. I was doing my morning meditation practice in my favorite chair in the living room. I was inquiring into the role of desire in living the life I have and the life I would like to create for myself. Many thoughts and […]
Father Lies to His Daughter to Keep Her from Knowing the Harsh Truth – Purpose Fairy
Father Lies to His Daughter to Keep Her from Knowing the Harsh Truth – Purpose Fairy.
Gratitude is a Way of Undercutting Your Ego
The Force of Gratitude | February 22, 2015 Gratitude is a way of undercutting your ego—that is, it is a way of being Buddhist. There is an awareness that we get now and then about what we owe to others, and Shinran [the founder of Shin Buddhism] feels that that should become the moving […]
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