Paul Tingen, a fellow Order of Interbeing Member in the Plum Village Tradition of Zen Master Thich Nhat Hanh has made this wonderful offering of music which he calls “Light in the Dark.” It is an acoustic guitar rendition to the tune of Leonard Cohen‘s Hallelujah. Paul hopes that we keep in mind the lessons […]
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The Zen Teachings of Bagger Vance
A few nights ago, we re-watched The Legend of Bagger Vance in which Rannulph Junuh, played by Matt Damon learns the Zen teachings of Bagger Vance, played by Will Smith. Junuh is in a golf tournament with two top players in Savannah, Georgia and has fallen 12 stokes behind. Bagger Vance gives Junuh the following […]
Read Healing with the 7 Principles of Mindfulness for Just 1 ¢
Read Healing with the 7 Principles of Mindfulness for Just 1 ¢ How to Thrive and Succeed in a Complex Cancer System Authored by Jerome Freedman, Ph. D. Foreword by Dr. Martin Rossman, MD. Healing with the 7 Principles of Mindfulness: How to Thrive and Succeed in a Complex Cancer System reveals the personal power […]
Read Healing Cancer with Your Mind for 1 ¢
Read Healing Cancer with Your Mind for Just 1 ¢ 7 Strategies to Help YOU Survive Authored by Jerome Freedman, Ph. D. Foreword by Dr. Martin Rossman, MD. Healing Cancer with Your Mind: 7 Strategies to Help YOU Survive reveals the personal power that you possess for self-healing. Learning and applying the 7 strategies discussed […]
Daraja – the Bridge to Reducing Climate Change
Tuesday night I witnessed something very moving that has a great effect on reversing climate change. As I reported before, Paul Hawken’s book, Drawdown: The Most Comprehensive Plan Ever Proposed to Reverse Global Warming, reports that the sixth and seventh most promising solutions to climate change are respectively, Educating Women and Family Planning. Together, these […]
Practice Kindness
One of the many things that you can do for your happiness and the happiness of others is to practice kindness. Kindness has the capacity to spread like wildfire. If you are kind to the grocery clerk who checked you out, he or she will be kind to the rest of the people she serves […]
Self-Forgiveness
Self-forgiveness, like self-compassion can often be very difficult. If we remember what Jack Kornfield said, “Forgiveness is giving up all hope of a better past,” we can begin to forgive ourselves and other people in our lives. In my way of thinking, forgiveness, like gratitude and loving kindness, are clear paths to inner peace and […]
A Song For All Beings
Last Saturday night, I attended a performance of A Song For All Beings to a packed house. Composed and produced by Jennifer Berezan and friends, A Song For All Beings is based on the Buddhist practice of metta and the four immeasurable minds or Brahma Viharas (divine abodes) of loving kindness, compassion, sympathetic joy, and […]
Why Planning for Failure is Essential to Building Great Habits – Purpose Fairy
Planning for failure is essential for building great habits and here are 4 ways to do just that. Start small and optimize for long-term success. I once heard someone say (I don’t remember exactly who was it, but I know for sure it was a public figure), that as a little child, his father taught […]
23 Powerful Lessons to Learn from a Cancer Survivor
[Note: This article is by Heather Von St. James from The Purpose Ferry, Luminita Saviac] At just 36 years old I was diagnosed with mesothelioma. This very aggressive and rare cancer left me, a new mother to a 3 ½-month-old, with a life expectancy of just 15 months. Through determination, the support of my family, […]
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