Metta Starts with Me: A Step-By-Step Guide to Meditating on Loving-Kindness.
The root of metta must begin by instilling in yourself the strength, support and loving-kindness that you will then draw upon to bless others.
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Buddhism
My Mystic Journey From Loss to Living and Loving.
I couldn't see the light poking holes through my black state of mind. Chanting widens the holes until I can only see white, bright light streaming through the recesses of my mind.
Hungry Ghosts and Benefactors: On Moving Through the Field of Motion Sickness.
We are told not to burn ourselves out, to avoid motion sickness, to be reasonable.
Gratitude for Pain.
I'm tired because I cried for hours and hours and hours last night, tears streaming and soaking my pillow, and I woke with swollen eyes, still feeling sorry for myself, missing my partner, lamenting my children's misfortune, and feeling the depths of depression that have characterized my life ...
Bang the Drum: Elegy for the Grieving. {poetry}
Bang the drum for our sons and daughters, for husbands and wives, mothers and friends.
Shout death’s name to a clueless world. Bang the drum loudly!
Love in grief has a powerful rhythm. Bang the drum with courage and strength!
Bang it loud filled with compassion! Bang the drum proudly!
How To Quit… And Why You Should.
The temporary 'high', or brief relief that we experience from the wine, cigarette or doughnut is really just a feeling of 'less bad', which is very different from actually 'feeling good'. Buddhists call this confusing suffering for happiness.
Dharma Is… : Curtain Walls, Rothko Paintings, And Butterflies.
When I stand alone on a hillcrest, watching the sun burn itself to sleep, and feel connection to something larger than my own story; when I breathe in Child’s Pose listening to Jeff Buckley’s 'Hallelujah' in my bedroom the night before yet 'another' eye surgery; when I sit on the gallery floor ...
Get Anything You Want: The World You Are In Is The World You Create.
Once you're here, I can promise you the feeling of constant happiness is even more intense than any proper depression. It’s as if you like doing Valium, and then do heroin for the first time. The feeling will be so great that you'll never want to get down from that trip. It is just that with ...