Entering the silence with purpose is just what we do when we have a daily meditation practice. The silence comes between our thoughts, feelings, and sensations. Matthew Kelly, in his book, The Rhythm of Life: Living Every Day with Passion and Purpose, has this to say about entering the silence with purpose: “Everything great in […]
Archives for May 2015
Cut the Cords of Past and Present Pain: Guided Meditation – Purpose Fairy
Cut the Cords of Past and Present Pain: Guided Meditation. Take a trip to a magical place where your loving angels will cut the cords of past and present pain by melting away all tension, worry and anxiety from your body, helping you let go of the pain, the addictions and all behaviors that no […]
Let the Thought or Feeling Go
These words of wisdom from Lama Surya Das teach us how to let the thought or feeling go. This works especially well when we allow ourselves to breathe in and breathe out and remove the object from our mind. This is reminiscent of Linji‘s directive to remove the object. The object, of course, is the […]
Why You Should Expect More from Yourself and Less from Others – Purpose Fairy
Why You Should Expect More from Yourself and Less from Others. What makes us think that we have the right to make others feel responsible for how we feel or don’t feel? Why is it that we expect so much from others and so little from ourselves? We want our family to love and cherish […]
12 Powerful Lessons to Help You Forgive – Purpose Fairy
12 Powerful Lessons to Help You Forgive. Let go of all the anger, all the toxicity and all the resentment that is poisoning your mind, body, soul and life with this 12 powerful lessons in forgiveness. Fill your heart with love. Forgive and let go. Not necessary because those who mistreated you deserve it, but […]
A Message to Our Planet from 1971
In a message to our planet from 1971, the then United Nations Secretary-General U Thant told us, “I believe that mankind is at last aware of the fact that there is a delicate equilibrium of physical and biological phenomena on and around the earth which cannot be thoughtlessly disturbed as we race along the road […]
Five Climate Ease Mindfulness Trainings
These Five Climate Ease Mindfulness Trainings were authored by Dharma Teacher, Heather Mann. They are related to the Five Mindfulness Training. Five Climate Ease Mindfulness Trainings Protect Life Aware of pain caused by the extinction of human and non-human communities, I will protect and dwell in harmony with Great Earth’s ecosystems so all species may […]
The Connected Universe
The Connected Universe is a new movie by Malcom Carter. In this movie, we discover the science behind interbeing – the interconnectedness of all things in the Universe. In the trailer to the movie presented here, Malcom Carter says, “The connected universe is a fascinating journey of exploration into the interconnection of all things in […]
Get-What-You-Want Buddhism
Jan Nattier is a scholar of Early Indian Buddhism, Early Mahayana Buddhism, and Chinese Buddhist Translation and author of A Few Good Men (Studies in the Buddhist Traditions). She was a professor of Buddhist Studies in the Department of Religious Studies at Indiana University and held the post of the Shinnyōen Consulting Professor (Buddhist Studies) […]
Give As If There Is Nothing To Lose
These words of wisdom from Sallie Tisdale, author of Women of the Way: Discovering 2,500 Years of Buddhist Wisdom advises us to give as if there is nothing to lose. And really, what do we have to lose? All of our urgently felt needs for security vanish in light of our ultimate fate. Seeing the […]
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