Graceful Passages : A Companion for Living and Dying Get Link The Spell of the Sensuous: Perception and Language in a More-Than-Human World Get Link Last Steps: The Late Writings of Leo Tolstoy (Penguin Classics) Get Link Seven Brief Lessons on Physics Get Link The Yoga Handbook, An Inspirational Reference […]
Are You Going MAD?
January 25, 2017 by
Are you going MAD (Modern American Diet) from the foods you are eating? We are not built to eat like MAD men and women! “Thanks to the introduction of industrial-scale food processing, Americans have changed their dietary habits more in the past 100 years than all of humanity had in the previous 100,000. The Modern […]
A Funny Thing Happened at Sangha…
January 22, 2017 by Leave a Comment
A funny thing happened at sangha last Wednesday. It was a very dark and stormy night in San Anselmo, where we meet at the Pine Street Clinic as the Mindfulness In Healing sangha (meditation group) every Wednesday night at 7:00. I thought for sure no one would come, but even by 6:50 there were three […]
Man is Not the Enemy
January 20, 2017 by
With lots of unrest in the world and in the United States about the inauguration we have to remember that man is not the enemy. So who or what is the enemy? I would say that greed, aggression and delusion are the enemy – the three poisons taught by the Buddha. For example, in Tanzania, […]
The Power of Intuition
January 16, 2017 by
My friend told me a story the other night which demonstrates the power of intuition. I was completely blown away and I want to meet the chap that made such as stunning observation. The chap’s name, for the purposes of this demonstration, is Joe. Joe, now 37, grew up in a family of six: an […]
What to Think About
January 16, 2017 by Leave a Comment
yada “People by and large become what they think about themselves. The idea is so simple that it is easy to dismiss. People become what they think about themselves. It’s almost all a person needs to know about how to be happy. If someone came to me and asked me how to be happy, I […]
The Power of Mantra
January 12, 2017 by Leave a Comment
yada “The human mind is rather like the trunk of an elephant. It never rests . . . it goes here, there, ceaselessly moving through sensations, images, thoughts, hopes, regrets, impulses. Occasionally it does solve a problem or make necessary plans, but most of the time it wanders at large, simply because we do not […]
How is Daily Meditation Like a Bird in the Hand?
January 11, 2017 by Leave a Comment
yada “To make progress in meditation, you must be regular in your practice of it. Some people catch fire at the beginning, but when the novelty wears off in a few days and the hard work sets in, their fires dampen and go out. They cut back, postpone, make excuses, perhaps feel guilty and apologetic. […]
Prayer of the Mothers
January 10, 2017 by
The song “Prayer of the Mothers”, was born as a result of an alliance made between singer-songwriter Yael Deckelbaum, and a group of courageous women, leading the movement of “Women Wage Peace”. The movement arose on summer 2014 during the escalation of violence between Israel and the Palestinians, and the military operation “Tzuk Eitan”. On […]
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