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Dear Friends: Releasing Our Expectations We have endless expectations that our experience will go a certain way, and these expectations are almost inevitably foiled. . . . Zen Buddhist practice asks us to sit with and try to accept that incongruity, rather than strain against it. – Mike Gillis, “Cringing Toward Compassion” Read More Words […]

Dear Friends: “Right effort directed in the right direction is necessary.If your effort is headed in the wrong direction, especially if you are not aware of this, it is deluded effort.” – Shunryu Suzuki, Zen Mind, Beginner”™s Mind Read More Words of Wisdom Click here to offer what you can for eBooks and Guided Mediations! […]

Dear Friends: “The ego is sustained by continuous resistance.” – Eckhart Tolle Read More Mini Mindfulness Breaks Click here to offer what you can for eBooks and Guided Mediations! Mindfulness Mentoring

Dear Friends: “The existence of a single number by itself is unthinkable. Morally or spiritually, this means that the existence of each individual, whether or not he is conscious of the fact, owes something to an infinitely expanding and all-enwrapping net of loving relationship, which takes up not only every one of us but everything […]

Dear Friends: Death is our friend precisely because it brings us into absolute and passionate presence with all that is here, that is natural, that is love. . . . Life always says Yes and No simultaneously. Death (I implore you to believe) is the true Yea-sayer. It stands before eternity and says only: Yes. […]

Dear Friends: Even though it is midnight, dawn is here; even though dawn comes, it is nighttime. – Shunryu Suzuki Read More Mini Mindfulness Breaks Click here to offer what you can for eBooks and Guided Mediations! Here’s an interesting post from Meditation Practices: Meditation Practices of Musar Being raised in a conservative Jewish home, […]

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Dear Friends: “Enlightenment is not unimportant, yet the deepest practice is the development of character, which is a whole life’s work and never ends.” – Suzuki Roshi Read More Mini Mindfulness Breaks Click here to offer what you can for eBooks and Guided Mediations! Here’s an interesting post from Meditation Practices: Love is Speaking to […]

Dear Friends: I wish I could show you when you are lonely or in darkness the astonishing light of you own being. – Hafiz Read More Mini Mindfulness Breaks Click here to offer what you can for eBooks and Guided Mediations! Here’s an interesting post from Meditation Practices: Ram Dass on Unconditional Love Continuing our […]