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  • Love and Compassion in Action

    The Buddha teaches that during our meditation we can send our mind of love and compassion into the four directions and embrace all species of living beings. But we must be careful not to think that the meditations of love and compassion consist in just sitting still and imagining that our mind of love and…

  • BEING A SMART ANIMAL

    This week’s reading is from Jan Frazier’s book, “The Great Sweetening, Life After Thought,” pp.8-10 “Once upon a time there was a creature endowed with a fine mind, and also with sense receptors that were sweetly attuned to the surrounding world and to its own delightful body.  This intelligent and feeling creature could pick up…

  • How to Tap Into the Natural Warmth of Your Heart, Pema Chodron

         BEFORE WE CAN KNOW what natural warmth really is, often we must experience loss. We go along for years moving through our days, propelled by habit, taking life pretty much for granted. Then we or someone dear to us has an accident or gets seriously ill, and it’s as if blinders have been…

  • GENEROSITY

    “Generosity is another quality which, like patience, letting go, non-judging, and trust, provides a solid foundation for mindfulness practice.  You might experiment with using the cultivation of generosity as a vehicle for deep self-observation and inquiry as well as an exercise in giving.  A good place to start is with yourself.  See if you can…

  • “The Guest House” by Rumi

    This being human is a guest house.Every morning a new arrival. A joy, a depression, a meanness,some momentary awareness comesAs an unexpected visitor. Welcome and entertain them all!Even if they’re a crowd of sorrows,who violently sweep your houseempty of its furniture,still treat each guest honorably.He may be clearing you outfor some new delight. The dark…

  • Letting Go

    The phrase ‘letting go’ has to be high in the running for New Age cliche of the century.  It is overused, abused daily.  Yet it is such a powerful inward maneuver that it merits looking into, cliche or no.  There is something vitally important to be learned from the practice of letting go.Letting go means just…