Be Your Own Advocate for Life

The first principle of mindfulness in healing is to be your own advocate for life and health! What does it mean to be your own advocate in the context of living in a fast-paced society with many social, economic, energetic, and environmental crisis? In the first place, it means to stand up for yourself so […]

How to Feed Cancer

I’m sure you don’t want to know how to feed cancer, but you are probably already doing so, without knowing it. Why do I say this? Because most people eat about 150 pounds of sugar every year without paying any heed to the well-known fact that cancer feeds on sugar! So many food substances have […]

How to Tap into Your Inner Pilot Light

If you have been following Lissa Rankin, MD and know how to tap into your inner pilot light, you can skip this article. It is based on an email I received from her last Thursday which contained 30 suggestions on how to tap into your inner pilot light. I’m just going to list them here […]

Bounce Back Big in 2016

These words of wisdom from Sonia Ricotti can be found in her eBook, Bounce Back BIG in 2016. Surrender to “what is” Recreate your reality Listen to the whispers To surrender to “what is” takes you to a place where you can contemplate how you got there and what you can do about it. We […]

Dream Analysis (and how to do it) – Anne Davin

Source: Dream Analysis (and how to do it) – Anne Davin

On Liking Yourself Just the Way You Are – jerome.tc.org@gmail.com – Gmail

Gmail is email that’s intuitive, efficient, and useful. 15 GB of storage, less spam, and mobile access. Source: On Liking Yourself Just the Way You Are – jerome.tc.org@gmail.com – Gmail

Freedom from Separateness

The lojong teachings of Tibetan Buddhism are slogans to guide us on our path to freedom from separateness. Pema Chodron is quite well known for her exposition of the lojong teachings. This particular one states, “All dharmas agree at one point.” Dharmas here refer to the happenings in everyday life and living. By practicing this slogan, […]

What Happens with You Meditate?

What happens when you meditate? Do you loose track of time only to hear the sound of the ending bell? Or does your mind wander and you wonder how it is possible to bring it back to the object of your meditation? Or do you sometimes begin to doze off or even fall asleep? Here […]

The Bodhisattva Vows

When I first was introduced to Zen Meditation at the San Francisco Zen Center (SFZC) in Green Gulch Farm in Sausalito, I learned the four Bodhisattva vows. One day last week, I woke up thinking about these vows and what they meant to me and then the following came in an email: THE BODHISATTVA PATH […]

Gratitude

Gratitude We have plenty to be grateful for every day!  All day, every day. Moment-by-moment we are given gifts beyond measure. Some of the biggest—those that allow us to appreciate so many others—are the awareness to see what’s going on, the willingness to choose thisherenow, and, biggest of all I suppose, getting our Life force […]