Archives for November 2014

Healing Your Mind, Body and Spirit: Guided Meditation – Purpose Fairy

Healing Your Mind, Body and Spirit: Guided Meditation – Purpose Fairy.

The Healing Power of Equanimity

These words of wisdom from Darlene Cohen, a long time teacher of Buddhism, on Tricycle.com demonstrate the healing power of equanimity. She learned this lesson the hard way, having to deal with the pain of rheumatoid arthritis. Unfortunately, she passed away in 2011 from ovarian cancer. No Goal | November 21, 2014 Just as a […]

Interbeing: Precepts and Practices of an Applied Ecology-Marty Peale & Roshi Joan Halifax – Upaya Zen Center

Interbeing: Precepts and Practices of an Applied Ecology-Marty Peale & Roshi Joan Halifax – Upaya Zen Center.

Blind Faith | November 20, 2014

Just to be is a blessing. Just to live is holy. – Abraham Joshua Heschel The Role of Faith | November 20, 2014 As a factor of the Buddhist path, faith (saddha) does not mean blind belief but a willingness to accept on trust certain propositions that we cannot, at our present stage of development, […]

The Freshness of Life

These words of wisdom about the freshness of life by Uchiyama Kosho Roshi come to us from the Upaya Zen Center in Santa Fe, New Mexico. My friend, Roshi Joan Halifax is the founder of Upaya and its abbess. I look forward to her emails weekly. Uchiyama Kosho Roshi lived between 1912 and 1988. He […]

16 Simple Ways to Practice Mindful Consumption in a Hyper-Consumer World : The New Pursuit | One Life. One Planet. Live Deeply.

“Mindful consumption is the way to heal ourselves and to heal the world.” ~ Thich Nhat Hanh via 16 Simple Ways to Practice Mindful Consumption in a Hyper-Consumer World : The New Pursuit | One Life. One Planet. Live Deeply..

On Learning to Live Life to the Fullest – Purpose Fairy

On Learning to Live Life to the Fullest – Purpose Fairy.

Understanding Fear

What is needed, rather than running away or controlling or suppressing or any other resistance, is understanding fear; that means, watch it, learn about it, come directly into contact with it. We are to learn about fear, not how to escape from it. – Jiddu Krishnamurti

Radical Interdependence

Foundation, Practice, Fulfillment | November 19, 2014 Starting with this most simple of expressions—When this is, that is—[Thich Nhat Hanh] explicated dependent origination as a vision of radical interdependence, or what he called “interbeing,” in which all beings support and are in turn supported by all other beings. This elaboration . . . encompassed the […]

The Wonders of Life

“People travel to wonder at the height of mountains, at the huge waves of the sea, at the long courses of rivers, at the vast compass of the ocean, at the circular motion of the stars; and they pass by themselves without wondering.“ – St Augustine