How to Simplify Our Lives

In a world where we are taught to make things more and more complicated each day Jon Jandai, founded Pun Pun Center for Self-Reliance, with his wife, Peggy Reents in 2003. He no longer compares his life to others and withdraws from competition. The Pun Pun Center is an organic farm outside Chiang Mai, Thailand. Jon […]

Embracing Anger

These words of wisdom from Mark Epstein in Tricycle Daily Dharma teach us about sitting with anger, or, as Zen Master Thich Nhat Hanh (Thay) teaches, embracing anger. Can you imagine a more explosive situation than what is going on in Israel today? With the recent war in Gaza started by Hamas with their bombing […]

7 Power Habits to Double Your Detox and Weight Loss

Power Habits to Double Your Detox and Weight Loss with Dr. Sara Gottfried MD and JJ Virgin Feeling fat and sluggish? Hormones out of whack? If you’ve tried everything to look and feel your best, with little-to-no success, it is most likely NOT your fault. You may be following the wrong set of rules. And […]

Guided Meditation to Create Your Inner Sanctuary

This guided meditation to create your inner sanctuary is provided by The Honest Guys, Sian Lloyd-Pennell, Rick Clarke, and their producer, Kevin. My first experience with creating my inner sanctuary was when I took the Silva Mind Control course in Chicago in 1971. I believe it was called creating your inner sanctuary. I think it […]

Why You Should Meditate – Pema Chodron

These words of wisdom are from Pema Chodron. She teaches you why you should meditate. She tells us that we are not meditating to become good meditators. We are meditating to become more alive, more aware, more awake. Daily practice is the key to establishing a good meditation practice. It can be as little as […]

26 Lessons from Mahatma Gandhi

These 26 lessons from Mahatma Gandhi are for you to contemplate and investigate in your lives. The come from the Purpose Ferry, Luminita Saviuc. Luminita is a former employee of Mindvalley who has achieved an enormous degree of success on her own. She is a gifted writer and speaker from Romania. On her blog, she […]

Let Go of Scarcity and Fear by Cultivating Joy and Gratitude

In this video, we learn to let go of scarcity and fear by cultivating joy and gratitude. It is another segment from Super Soul Sunday in which Oprah Winfrey interviews Dr. Brené Brown. Dr. Brown says, “When we lose our tolerance to be vulnerable, joy becomes foreboding, and so what we do in moments of […]

Gratitude as a Daily Practice

I first met Zenju Earthlyn Manuel at an event sponsored by the Buddhist Peace Fellowship around 2006 or 2007. I was impressed with her lovely demeanor, and want to get to know here better. She is no longer the director of the Buddhist Peace Fellowship, and I keep encountering writings from her from time to […]

The Four Immeasurable Minds

The four immeasurable minds are some of my favorite insights that have come from the Buddha. What are the four immeasurable minds? They are loving kindnesss, compassion, sympathetic joy, and equanimity. I can remember a time when I had muscle invasive bladder cancer for the first time in 1997. I was watching my daughter, Rachael, […]

The Brain in Love

This Ted Talk follows on the heals of my first encounter with romantic love. See The Bliss of Awakening – Adyashanti Warning, where I tell the story. Helen Fisher says, “Love is in us, it’s deeply embedded in the brain, our challenge is to understand each other.” She does fMRI research on the brain in […]