On Sunday, July 20, I visited the wake of the wonderful teacher, Joanna Macy in her home in Berkeley, CA. She was a good friend of Thay and she will be terribly missed. The wake was quite. I first entered the living room where people were sitting and singing beautiful spiritual songs like we might […]
Words of Wisdom for February 02, 2023
February 2, 2023 by
Dear Bud Smith: You have to take moments of wildness, and you have to start tracing your way back to your true self, to your true nature. And that will always be peace. – Martha Beck, Bewildered Podcast, Ep. 1: The Happiness Imperative Read More Mini Mindfulness Breaks Click here to offer what you can […]
Words of Wisdom for February 01, 2023
February 1, 2023 by
Dear Bud Smith: “Who looks outside, dreams; who looks inside, awakes.” – Carl Jung My new book, How to Use Mindfulness to Be Happy is ready for you to preview. Click here! Read More Mini Mindfulness Breaks Click here to offer what you can for eBooks and Guided Mediations! Here’s an interesting post from Meditation […]
Words of Wisdom for January 31, 2023
January 31, 2023 by
Dear Bud Smith: Just to be is a blessing. Just to live is holy. – Rabbi Abraham Joshua Heschel, Daily Peace Quote My new book, How to Use Mindfulness to Be Happy is ready for you to preview. Click here! Read More Mini Mindfulness Breaks Click here to offer what you can for eBooks and […]
Words of Wisdom for January 30, 2023
January 30, 2023 by
Dear Bud Smith: “Do only what is easy, life becomes hard. Do what is hard, life becomes easy.” – Anonymous My new book, How to Use Mindfulness to Be Happy is ready for you to preview. Click here! Read More Mini Mindfulness Breaks Click here to offer what you can for eBooks and Guided Mediations! […]
Words of Wisdom for January 29, 2023
January 29, 2023 by
Dear Bud Smith: We are actually, in many senses, chimeric. We are prolific. We are much more inchoate than we think we are, than modernity has pressed us into thinking we are. – Bayo Akomolafe, PhD, Sounds True My new book, How to Use Mindfulness to Be Happy is ready for you to preview. Click […]
Words of Wisdom for January 29, 2023
January 28, 2023 by
Dear Bud Smith: We are actually, in many senses, chimeric. We are prolific. We are much more inchoate than we think we are, than modernity has pressed us into thinking we are. – Bayo Akomolafe, PhD, Sounds True My new book, How to Use Mindfulness to Be Happy is ready for you to preview. Click […]
Unconditional Love
June 18, 2022 by
This article on unconditional love is based on a talk I gave to the Mindfulness In Healing Sangha on June 8, 2022. It was inspired by two people, Dr. Rachel Naomi Remen and Anita Moorjani, author of Dying to Be Me: My Journey from Cancer, to Near Death, to True Healing. These days, we are […]
The Five Levels of Compassion
May 6, 2022 by
The five levels of compassion1 came from Dr. Gabor Maté. I believe these developed out of his work for 20+ years as a pediatrician and 12+ years of working with addicts in the east side of downtown Vancouver, BC. As a child, Gabor was handed off to strangers in Hungary where he was born at […]
American JuBu
February 11, 2020 by
In the current issue (Spring 2020) of Tricycle Magazine, there is a review article about Emily Sigalow’s new book, “American JewBu: Jews, Buddhists, and Religious Change.” I was deeply moved by this review to the extent of making a comment. Here is what I wrote: I was brought up in a conservative kosher home in […]
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