Dear Friends: This post is the 500th post on Meditation Practices For Healing and Well-Being! Thank your for your continued support. Jerome This week’s Words of Wisdom chosen by Lama Surya Das were spoken by my teacher, Zen Master Thich Nhat Hanh. Thay, as he is affectionately called by his followers, is constantly talking about being […]
The Past Is A Ghost
April 24, 2013 by
The Words of Wisdom this week come from a surprising source. They were chosen by Lama Surya Das and spoken by Bill Cosby, of all people. I was astonished to see his name on an email from Lama Surya Das! “The past is a ghost, the future is a dream, and all we ever have […]
Don’t Despair – Take Action
April 23, 2013 by
The response to Peter Cutler’s article about the bombings in Boston repeated in All You Need Is Love have sparked another very interesting set of comments from other OI members. In particular, Mitchell Ratner, posted an article on the website of the Still Water Mindfulness Practice Center in Washington, D. C. His article, Despair Is the […]
A Marine And An Army Veteran
April 17, 2013 by
This article is related to two previous articles. The first one is on Jon Kabat-Zinn‘s consultation with top leaders in the United Kingdom last week about cutting health care costs (see Mindfulness In Health Care) and yesterday’s article about US Marines getting mindfulness training and yoga (see Marines Learning Push Ups For The Brain). On April 8, […]
We Need To Root Out Seeds Of Anger
April 16, 2013 by
I just received these Words of Wisdom from Lama Surya Das about the Boston bombing that took place on yesterday during the Boston Marathon. In this statement, Lama Surya Das says that we need to root out seeds of anger, hatred, fear, and greed. Today is a day of tears and prayers here in Boston, […]
Meditation Develops Certainty And Conviction
April 15, 2013 by
In the Weekly Words of Wisdom chosen by Lama Surya Das, Dudjom Rimpoche says that “If you do meditate, certainty and conviction will be attained.” I was immediately grabbed by this statement because certainty and conviction came up in my morning meditation yesterday. I was listening to a meditation recording by Kelly Howell called, The Secret to […]
See The World In A Moment
April 12, 2013 by
Dainin Katagiri Roshi was a Soto Zen Master who died at the young age of 62 in 1990. This quote, “See The World In A Moment,” is from his treatment of time in the Zen tradition in his book, “Each Moment Is the Universe.” Katagiri Roshi was the leader of a sesshin (a Zen retreat […]
What Should We Talk About?
April 10, 2013 by
My dharma buddy, Bhikkhu Samahita, sent me an interesting email over the weekend. He basically answered the question, “What should we talk about?” Naturally, he was coming from the point of view of what the Buddha said. Not being one skilled in the art of small talk, I welcomed his words of wisdom. He writes […]
Human Responsibility
April 9, 2013 by
These Weekly Words of Wisdom chosen by Lama Surya Das tie into what I wrote yesterday about Mindfulness in Health Care. The idea of human responsibility expressed by Václav Havel is equivalent to the concepts of interbeing and interdependence. Mindfulness practices engender a sense of human responsibility. The Buddha, himself, taught rulers of kingdoms in […]
2500 Years Of Social Revolution
April 6, 2013 by
This quote by Roshi Joan Halifax came to me by email in December. This ties in with The Story of the Buddha from earlier this week and reflects on 2500 years of social revolution. Also, I have been listening to a podcast by Zen Master Thich Nhat Hanh in which he talked about how the Buddha […]
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