Attaining enlightenment seems to be what we are all looking for when we diligently practice mindful meditation every day. I know, from personal experience, that this can be a very difficult task. When I was 19, I had three transformative experiences that shaped my life. I did not know what theses were experiences were until […]
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How to Transform Challenges into Medicine
June 24, 2015 by Leave a Comment
Here is another quote from Alex Lickerman, MD that teaches us how to transform challenges into medicine. When Silvia Boorstein talks about the first noble truth of suffering, she calls it the noble truth of challenges. “From the Buddhist perspective, I told him, all of us have the capacity to make use of any […]
How to Recover from Failure
June 12, 2015 by
Dr. Alex Lickerman provides us with these words of wisdom today on how to recover from failure with determination. These are teachings from the Pure Land tradition of Nichiren Buddhism. This form of Japanese Buddhist practices focuses on the Lotus Sutra and relies on the Gohonzon – the chanting of Namu Myoho Renge Kyo. The […]
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