These words of wisdom are from Pema Chodron. She teaches you why you should meditate. She tells us that we are not meditating to become good meditators. We are meditating to become more alive, more aware, more awake. Daily practice is the key to establishing a good meditation practice. It can be as little as […]
Archives for August 2014
26 Lessons from Mahatma Gandhi
These 26 lessons from Mahatma Gandhi are for you to contemplate and investigate in your lives. The come from the Purpose Ferry, Luminita Saviuc. Luminita is a former employee of Mindvalley who has achieved an enormous degree of success on her own. She is a gifted writer and speaker from Romania. On her blog, she […]
Five Steps Toward A Better Life – Purpose Fairy
Five Steps Toward A Better Life – Purpose Fairy.
Let Go of Scarcity and Fear by Cultivating Joy and Gratitude
In this video, we learn to let go of scarcity and fear by cultivating joy and gratitude. It is another segment from Super Soul Sunday in which Oprah Winfrey interviews Dr. Brené Brown. Dr. Brown says, “When we lose our tolerance to be vulnerable, joy becomes foreboding, and so what we do in moments of […]
Gratitude as a Daily Practice
I first met Zenju Earthlyn Manuel at an event sponsored by the Buddhist Peace Fellowship around 2006 or 2007. I was impressed with her lovely demeanor, and want to get to know here better. She is no longer the director of the Buddhist Peace Fellowship, and I keep encountering writings from her from time to […]
The Four Immeasurable Minds
The four immeasurable minds are some of my favorite insights that have come from the Buddha. What are the four immeasurable minds? They are loving kindnesss, compassion, sympathetic joy, and equanimity. I can remember a time when I had muscle invasive bladder cancer for the first time in 1997. I was watching my daughter, Rachael, […]
The Brain in Love
This Ted Talk follows on the heals of my first encounter with romantic love. See The Bliss of Awakening – Adyashanti Warning, where I tell the story. Helen Fisher says, “Love is in us, it’s deeply embedded in the brain, our challenge is to understand each other.” She does fMRI research on the brain in […]
The Bliss of Awakening – Adyashanti Warning
Adyashanti issues a warning in these words of wisdom from Tricycle. He warns us that the bliss of awakening can be addicting and we should watch out for it. It is merely a by-product of awakening, and not true awakening itself. Adyashanti is an American born spiritual teacher with loads of credentials. He teaches non-duality […]
What We Should Teach Our Children
Alan Watts was and amazingly gifted philosopher, lecturer and writer. He is famous bringing the philosophies of Eastern religions to Western Audiences. He was especially fond of Shunyru Suzuki Roshi and Zen practice. In the 1960’s and 1970’s, he lived in a houseboat in Sausalito and in a cabin on Mount Tamalpais, both near my […]
15 Life Changing Lessons to Learn from Don Miguel Ruiz – Purpose Fairy
15 Life Changing Lessons to Learn from Don Miguel Ruiz – Purpose Fairy.
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