No-Self Love: When the Self Drops Away.
According to Buddhist philosophy, thinking that we are or have a self, a thing we can identify with, is the primary cause of all human suffering.
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Finally, It Is Safe to Feel Safe.
We might have a history of having to depend on inconsistent and unreliable adults, so now we feel we cannot trust anyone with anything.
Walk of Life: Contrasting War and Yoga Practice.
The wages of war are swinish, dark, bottomless. Yoga is practiced for one reason, uniting body, spirit, mind. The wages of Yoga are breath light energy.
Shojin Ryori: Just Stir the Pot.
Shojin Ryori practitioners are able to turn vegetarian cooking into a pathway towards awakening. And we can do the same by simply living every day with a full heart.
Are You a ‘Placitarian’?
Perhaps I'm a Placitarian: a human being who is very likely to fall in love with a town, city, place or location. The sight of a tree or smell of a flower is always more than I expect. I've never looked at a tree and thought, "Wow, that is so disappointing." Nature always satisfies.
Don’t Buy the Snake Oil: When Patriarchy Masquerades as Tantra.
Drink this snake oil, and you will be fixed/enlightened/saved. Take this workshop, and you will be feminine enough to catch an awakened man.
The Gift and Power of Your Presence.
Contemporary spiritual teachers, such as Tara Brach, Jeffrey Foster, and Eckhart Tolle, take a different route to Rome, or home, that deflates the appeal of this risky temptation and opens the door to deep healing. Their take on being present is more aligned with Buddhist and Taoist thought, ...
This Is a Love Story Between a Buddhist and a Christian.
Ethics is the big overlap zone in the Venn Diagram of our marriage. Although we are altruists, we work in non-overlapping professional zones, and we are a part of non-overlapping worship communities. This separation of church and sangha, so to speak, insures that we live separate lives through ...