Dear Friends: How I Stopped My Panic Attacks Knowing how I struggled, my father, a famed meditation teacher, advised me to welcome my panic. So I dutifully began to greet each panic episode with, “Oh, hello, anxiety, welcome!” It did help somewhat, but because my motivation hadn’t actually changed, I was not handling it much […]

Dear Friends: “Exertion is like the fine steel of a sword blade. . . . To truly sever the confusion and duality of the usual mind with Manjusri’s sword of dhyana [concentration] and prajna [wisdom] we must be able to exert this fully, holding nothing back.” – Anzan Hoshin, Tricycle Read More Words of Wisdom […]

Dear Friends: “A wonderful result of letting go is to experience each moment as being enough, just as it is. It allows us to be present for our experience here and now with such clarity and freedom that this very moment stands out as something profound.” – Gil Fronsdal, Dzogchen Center Read More Words of […]

Dear Friends: Minette Layne I think of the trees and how simply they let go, let fall the riches of a season, how without grief (it seems) they can let go and go deep into their roots for renewal and sleep…. Imitate the trees. Learn to lose in order to recover, and remember that nothing […]

Dear Friends: The Buddha’s Four Foundations of Mindfulness The Buddha declared that the four foundations of mindfulness are the “one-way path” for the overcoming of suffering and the attainment of nirvana. The expression “four foundations of mindfulness” refers to the mindful contemplation of four objective domains that, between them, comprise the entire field of human […]

Dear Friends: Taking Off the Blinders Desire narrows our awareness till we see only what we crave; mindfulness helps us see other possibilities. – Sandra Weinberg, “Eating and the Wheel of Life” Read More Words of Wisdom Click here to offer what you can for eBooks and Guided Mediations! How to Use Mindfulness to Be […]

Dear Friends: “Sound has the power to manifest… in fact all of our reality, all of manifestation arises out of primordial sound” – Dorje Lopon Charlotte Rotterdam, Tara Mandala 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: The arc of the moral universe is long, but it bends toward justice. – Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. 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: “It’s no accident that this systematic suppression of the feminine has been accompanied down the centuries not only by the devaluation of all that is wild and instinctual in our own natures, but by the purposeful destruction of natural ecosystems. We long ago turned our backs on the planet which gives us life.” […]

Dear Friends: Our eternal spiritual self is more real than anything we perceive in this physical realm, and has a divine connection to the infinite love of the Creator. – Eben Alexander, Proof of Heaven: A Neurosurgeon’s Journey Into the Afterlife Read More Words of Wisdom Click here to offer what you can for eBooks […]