11 Things You Should Remind Yourself Daily. Today, here and now, is where your life is. This moment is your life. And if you make a choice to immerse yourself fully into this moment – appreciating, enjoying and loving what is, you will experience joy that you have never experienced before, and you will feel […]
Archives for July 2015
Indiegogo Campaign for Healing with the 7 Principles of Mindfulness
The Indiegogo campaign for Healing with the 7 Principles of Mindfulness launched today. When you visit the site, you will be greeted by an extremely powerful video from 1980. It is a clip from an episode of In Search of … with Leonard Nemoy (Dr. Spock). It tells the story of the (miraculous ?) recovery […]
Impermanence
Facing Impermanence Change is continuous in spite of our efforts to resist it. We begin to realize that we do not have any way to stop it or to slow it down. The more we try, the more we suffer. But there is a way to let go, to break this cycle of suffering. We […]
Develop Your Own Path
The Buddha provided us with a wonderful eightfold path for us to discover our true nature and become enlightened. While this path worked for the Buddha and it would work for you, provided that you are diligent, you may still have to develop your own path. Michael Ray has an interesting idea about developing your […]
More than Bare Attention
More than Bare Attention When mindfulness is equated with bare attention, it can easily lead to the misconception that the cultivation of mindfulness has nothing to do with ethics or with the cultivation of wholesome states of mind and the attenuation of unwholesome states. Nothing could be further from the truth. – B. Alan Wallace, […]
Learning to Pay Attention
We are learning to pay attention—period. Walking, sitting, typing, driving, cooking, listening, and speaking are all becoming fully HERE, no distractions, activities. Every moment is a fully present, completely HERE, no distractions “activity.” Soon you’ll realize it doesn’t take tense muscles to do anything. Soon you’ll see that awareness contains everything, and that as you […]
Your Inner Pilot Light
Light Gives Forth Light When we share our light with others, we do not diminish our own light. Rather, we increase the amount of light available to all. Therefore, when others light our candle, we issue forth light. When out of gratitude we use our candle to light other people’s candles, the whole room gets […]
Pema Chodron Turned 79!
A lot is happening in the world of Buddhism and yoga these days! With the Dalai Lama turning 80, Zen Master Thich Nhat Hanh being treated for his stroke at UCSF (near my home), and Swami Veda Bharati passing away I think it is high time to launch the Indiegogo campaign! Just a couple of […]
In Memory of Swami Veda Bharati
This article is in memory of Swami Veda Bharati, who passed away on July 14, 2015. When I met him in 1971, he was called Dr. Arya and he was the scholar in residence at the Himalayan Institute of Yoga Science and Philosophy under the direction of Swami Rama in the suburbs of Chicago. As […]
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