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Dear Friends: Tonglen is like a prayer that rides the breath, similar to how Tibetan prayer flags ride the wind. It enhances our trust in our ability to be kind and, at the same time, it enhances our understanding of the selfish and negative energies that are also a part of us. – Judy Lief, […]

Dear Friends: Genius means little more than the faculty of perceiving in an un-habitual way. – William James, Daily Peace Quote Read More Words of Wisdom Click here to offer what you can for eBooks and Guided Mediations! How to Use Mindfulness to Be Happy! <!

Dear Friends: “Hindus will chant a specific mantra which becomes an invocation. It is not necessary that there should be a meaning to the mantra. Ordinarily there is none, because mantras with meaning become distorted with the passage of time. But meaningless mantras do not become distorted. With a meaningless mantra nothing extraneous can enter […]

Dear Friends: To the ego who wants to rule the world Some monkey stole the mic,praising the doctrine of discoveryday and night.Perfuming the land with scents and aromasof Manifest Destiny,but now furious ego fires burnbecause this mind has discoveredit cannot become God.We know our hearts and mindsare larger than that.This mind cannot become Godbecause that […]

Dear Friends: Things are as they are. Looking out into the universe at night, we make no comparisons between right and wrong stars, nor between well and badly arranged constellations. – Alan Watts, Daily Peace Quote Read More Words of Wisdom Click here to offer what you can for eBooks and Guided Mediations! How to […]

Dear Friends: The Twelfth Mindfulness Training: Reverence for Life Aware that much suffering is caused by war and conflict, we are determined to cultivate nonviolence, compassion, and the insight of interbeing in our daily lives and promote peace education, mindful meditation, and reconciliation within families, communities, ethnic and religious groups, nations, and in the world. […]

Dear Friends: Letting Go Completely If you let go a little, you will have a little peace. If you let go a lot, you will have a lot of peace. And if you let go completely, you will have complete peace. – Ajahn Chah, “Lovingkindness for Control Freaks” Read More Words of Wisdom Click here […]

Dear Friends: “Too busy, too much to do” will never get it all done. Urgency-rushing-anxiety IS A STORY IN CONDITIONED MIND! As soon as we get HERE, we see none of it is true. Life is the ultimate time management expert. There’s always time to do what needs to be done in any moment. – […]

Dear Friends: You could be a social activist and a contemplative at the same time; you could speak truth to power and not be overwhelmed by anger; you could see the suffering of delusion of those who were causing egregious harm, and it was not a matter of not holding “others” to account but of […]