So live your life that the fear of death can never enter your heart. Trouble no one about their religion; respect others in their view, and demand that they respect yours. Love your life, perfect your life, beautify all things in your life. Seek to make your life long and its purpose in the service […]
How to Transform Challenges into Medicine
June 24, 2015 by Leave a Comment
Here is another quote from Alex Lickerman, MD that teaches us how to transform challenges into medicine. When Silvia Boorstein talks about the first noble truth of suffering, she calls it the noble truth of challenges. “From the Buddhist perspective, I told him, all of us have the capacity to make use of any […]
Prayer for the Twenty-First Century
June 24, 2015 by
This Prayer for the Twenty-First Century was composed by John Marsden. It was choreographed and performed by the Dandelions Dance Company. The background music was from Ashana’s Ave Maria. I listen to this recording on my iPhone quite frequently. May the road be free for the journey, May it lead where it promised it would. […]
Just Be Happy!
June 22, 2015 by
Here are two amazing quotes that tell us to just be happy! The first one if from Swami Satchidananda whose popularity among yoga students in the 1970’s was phenomenal. Seekers like Dr. Dean Ornish sought out this yogi above all others. He founded the world wide Integral Yoga Institute. I knew many of his followers […]
Relaxing in the Body of Meditation – YouTube
June 20, 2015 by Leave a Comment
Some of the earliest meditation instruction — from the Buddha himself — emphasizes the centrality of body and breath in the process of relaxing into deeper states of awareness and realization. Will Johnson has been “obsessed” with these teachings of the Buddha for decades, and is extremely skillfull in passing the wisdom along to contemporary […]
How to Transform Suffering into an Opportunity for Growth
June 19, 2015 by
Here we have more words of wisdom from Robert Emmons. This lesson is on how to transform suffering into an opportunity for growth. He quotes Abraham Maslow, who we heard from recently in The Creative Spirit Of The Self-Actualizer last month. It continues on the gratitude theme from A Gratitude Practice to Increase Happiness from […]
Pope Francis Delivered His Climate Response Encyclical
June 18, 2015 by
By the time you read this, the rest of the world will know that Pope Francis delivered his climate response encyclical today. With the Pope getting behind climate justice, we may see a broader movement to stop global warming. This video is so entertaining that Andrew Butler says, “What’s going on here is nothing short […]
Jon Kabat-Zinn On Mindfulness In Healing
June 17, 2015 by
Dr. Jon Kabat-Zinn spoke last year (in 2011) at Dartmouth College. The topic of his speech is “The Healing Power of Mindfulness.” Some of the ways we use our minds includes worry about things that haven’t happened yet and planning what will happen next. He said, “In this moment, your life is just like this!” Recent […]
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