Lose Weight Quickly and Effortlessly: Guided Hypnosis – Purpose Fairy

Lose Weight Quickly and Effortlessly: Guided Hypnosis . Today’s guided meditation, or guided hypnotherapy session, is meant to help you lose weight quickly and effortlessly by “re-programming” all the bad, negative thoughts about food, eating, and weight right out of your body! Source: Lose Weight Quickly and Effortlessly: Guided Hypnosis – Purpose Fairy

See Yourself Clearly

See Yourself Clearly “In meditation we have the opportunity to meet ourselves, to see ourselves clearly for the first time. We have never met ourselves properly or spent this kind of time with ourselves before. . . . We cook, we talk, we take a walk, or we swim. We never just sit with ourselves.” […]

The Aspiration Is What Counts

“Beginning students commonly ask how they can honestly vow to save all beings. It sounds like missionary arrogance. [7th-century Chan monk] Hui-neng offers a response: “You are saving them in your own mind.” It is bodhicitta that you are cultivating—your own aspiration for wisdom and compassion, and your determination to practice it in the world […]

The Stream of Life

The same stream of life that runs through my veins night and day runs through the world and dances in rhythmic measures. It is the same life that shoots in joy through the dust of the earth in numberless blades of grass and breaks into tumultuous waves of leaves and flowers. It is the same […]

On Finding Yourself Through Solitude – Purpose Fairy

On Finding Yourself Through Solitude. Solitude is freedom – freedom from social norms, freedom from self-imposed limitations, freedom from ignorance, freedom from everything that keeps you from being true to yourself, and freedom from living a life that has no purpose and meaning. Source: On Finding Yourself Through Solitude – Purpose Fairy

What is Dharma?

A lot of people new to the teaching of mindfulness ask the question, “What is dharma?” They hear it mentioned in so many different contexts that they become confused. But, like many words in English, dharma has many meanings. Buddhists all over the world talk about the Three Jewels: the Buddha, the dharma, and the […]

Words Lose Their Meaning

Zen Master Thich Nhat Hanh (Thay) has been recovering from the stroke he had last November in San Francisco at the UCSF Medical Center. It must be the best place in the world for stroke rehabilitation, or he would not be there. Words lose their meaning when you try to describe how well his treatment […]

On Having the Courage to Take Life in Your Own Hands – Purpose Fairy

On Having the Courage to Take Life in Your Own Hands. There is no peace in pointing the finger and making others responsible for how you feel and for what your life looks like. There is no peace in giving your power away to forces outside of yourself and making them responsible for the quality […]

Newly-Released Book Provides Guidance and Methods for Healing Cancer

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE (Los Angeles, CA)—September 15, 2015—The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention estimates that 14 million people are diagnosed globally with cancer each year. Dr. Jerome Freedman, a cancer survivor, provides those with cancer with healing methods that support traditional medicine with his newly-released book, Healing with the Seven Principles of Mindfulness, How […]

Education of the Heart

“My hope and wish is that one day, formal education will pay attention to what I call education of the heart. Just as we take for granted the need to acquire proficiency in the basic academic subjects, I am hopefully that a time will come when we can take it for granted that children will […]