This is a story about Gandhi. It came to me a while ago from my dharma brother, Paul Tingen. Read the story then take a look at what I have learned about sugar and cancer. A mother came to Gandhi and asked him: ‘Dear Gandhi, can you please tell my son not to eat sugar […]
Motivation for When You’re Feeling Down and Out – Purpose Fairy
November 25, 2014 by Leave a Comment
Motivation for When You’re Feeling Down and Out – Purpose Fairy.
Do Not Kill Your Rabbit
November 25, 2014 by
In this video, Alan Watts tells a story about a little girl who was given a rabbit. He says, ”…pleasure in its fullness cannot be experienced when one is grasping it. “I knew a little girl to whom someone gave a bunny rabbit. She was so delighted with the bunny rabbit and so afraid of […]
Finding True Love Through Self Love – Purpose Fairy
November 23, 2014 by Leave a Comment
Finding True Love Through Self Love – Purpose Fairy.
Acceptance and Surrender with Eckhart Tolle
November 23, 2014 by
A few years back, I could not get enough of Eckhart Tolle. I went to my local library and rented every audio recording they had of Eckhardt Tolle. One of the most influential books of his is The Power of Now: A Guide to Spiritual Enlightenment. This video is on acceptance and surrender with Eckhart […]
Healing Your Mind, Body and Spirit: Guided Meditation – Purpose Fairy
November 22, 2014 by Leave a Comment
Healing Your Mind, Body and Spirit: Guided Meditation – Purpose Fairy.
The Healing Power of Equanimity
November 22, 2014 by
These words of wisdom from Darlene Cohen, a long time teacher of Buddhism, on Tricycle.com demonstrate the healing power of equanimity. She learned this lesson the hard way, having to deal with the pain of rheumatoid arthritis. Unfortunately, she passed away in 2011 from ovarian cancer. No Goal | November 21, 2014 Just as a […]
Interbeing: Precepts and Practices of an Applied Ecology-Marty Peale & Roshi Joan Halifax – Upaya Zen Center
November 20, 2014 by Leave a Comment
Interbeing: Precepts and Practices of an Applied Ecology-Marty Peale & Roshi Joan Halifax – Upaya Zen Center.
Blind Faith | November 20, 2014
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Just to be is a blessing. Just to live is holy. – Abraham Joshua Heschel The Role of Faith | November 20, 2014 As a factor of the Buddhist path, faith (saddha) does not mean blind belief but a willingness to accept on trust certain propositions that we cannot, at our present stage of development, […]
The Freshness of Life
November 20, 2014 by
These words of wisdom about the freshness of life by Uchiyama Kosho Roshi come to us from the Upaya Zen Center in Santa Fe, New Mexico. My friend, Roshi Joan Halifax is the founder of Upaya and its abbess. I look forward to her emails weekly. Uchiyama Kosho Roshi lived between 1912 and 1988. He […]
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