Today’s lesson is on how to practice inclusiveness is also from the 21-day Happiness Challenge from Luminita Saviuc, also known as the Purpose Ferry. Our world today is filled with different groups, religions, races, people with a different sexual orientation, and many other categories that keep us separate. When we practice inclusiveness, we allow others […]
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Introducing…
Introducing: How to Use Mindfulness to Be Happy A new book title from Dr. Jerome Freedman How to Use Mindfulness to Be Happy is based on nine weeks of classes I taught between February 16 and April 13, 2022 online on Zoom to 8-12 people, many new to mindfulness practices. The book allowed me to […]
The Four Divine Abodes
This course is a four week introduction to the Four Divine Abodes: loving kindness, compassion, sympathetic joy and equanimity. They are also called the four sublime abodes or four immeasurable minds because they bring a sense of vitality and happiness for others. These are some of my favorite teachings as they work together to cultivate […]
Taking Care of Anger
April 16, 2019 by
At a recent meeting of our Mindfulness In Healing sangha (meditation group) we discussed the Mindfulness Training #6, Taking Care of Anger. This training reads, Aware that anger blocks communication and creates suffering, we are committed to taking care of the energy of anger when it arises, recognizing and transforming the seeds of anger that […]
Practice Kindness
September 5, 2017 by
One of the many things that you can do for your happiness and the happiness of others is to practice kindness. Kindness has the capacity to spread like wildfire. If you are kind to the grocery clerk who checked you out, he or she will be kind to the rest of the people she serves […]
Include All Things
February 23, 2017 by
The insight of interbeing tells us to include all things. This inclusiveness pertains to people, animals, plants and minerals all the way down to the smallest atom (hydrogen) and all the up beyond the visible universe. But this is not a new idea as many think. For example, in my interview with Neil deGrasse Tyson […]
What the World Needs Now
January 28, 2016 by
What the world needs now is generosity instead of greed, kindness, gratitude and compassion instead of aggression, wisdom instead of delusion, and most of all, unconditional love instead of hatred. These were the conclusions we came to last night at our dharma discussion in the Mindfulness in Healing sangha. The discussion was sparked by the […]
Remembering Dr Martin Luther King Jr
January 19, 2015 by
Today in the United States is a day of remembering Dr Martin Luther King Jr. As portrayed in the movie, Selma, Dr. King was a man who believed in non-violence. He took on the whole country to try to rid us of our discrimination against people of color. To a large extent, he was very […]
Loving Kindness for All Beings
September 29, 2014 by
The music in this video is by Ashana from her album, All is Forgiven. The song is called, Loving Kindness for all beings! A friend of mine shared this with me for healing, relaxation, and inner peace. It was the one song I relied on during my recent eight weeks of cancer treatments. The words […]
Worthiness
March 25, 2014 by
These words of wisdom today come from Thomas Merton, an American Catholic writer, mystic, and friend of Zen Master Thich Nhat Hanh. I have heard Thich Nhat Hanh, known as Thay by his followers, speak about Thomas Merton many times in recent years. The subject of worthiness comes up everyday in the life of followers […]
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