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Hurricane Lane may be an opportunity to mindfully experience the discomforts many face as facts of life: no dependable electric power, no…
Hurricane Lane may be an opportunity to mindfully experience the discomforts many face as facts of life: no dependable electric power, no…
This year, I decided to not make any resolutions. Well, except maybe one. I resolve to just be myself. I always felt…
I am often asked why I meditate. Sometimes it’s phrased – What are you trying to accomplish by just sitting on a…
Fairy tales often convey deep meaning. Take Hans Christian Andersen’s story of the ugly duckling. A baby swan is orphaned and raised…
Mindfulness helps us recognize the chronic frazzle, which is like discovering the horse you are riding has reigns. Actually sitting down to…
We suffer because we forget what we truly are. We take refuge and remember. We forget we are love and compassion; that…
The lychees didn’t fruit much this year. In fact, barely at all. I thought maybe it was something I said? Karma, you…
In one of Tara Brach’s online talks on self-compassion, she tells a story about the work of Dian Fossey with gorilla groups…
The prominent mindfulness meditation teacher Jack Kornfield tells this story illustrating the freshness of what has been called beginner’s mind in one…
I read online somewhere that before they enter kindergarten kids are exposed to thousands of commercials. I remember when our son was…
The other night my wife and kids threw me a 60th birthday party where, after the usual social stuff, folks started dancing…
In this much written about contentious election season, filled with so many angry accusations and counter accusations, where civility and decency appear…
We already have what we need – your brain and your heart are your temples, and your philosophy, kindness. It seems many…
Meditation changes your brain. The you meditate, the more you respond to life from the place of calm, compassion, and awareness. …
Have you ever had the experience of being irritated with someone or about something, like a parking ticket, while waking somewhere when…
On this New Year’s Day, I struggle with what to do about New Year’s resolutions. Should I bother? If past years and…
We don’t need any more divisiveness, we have had enough to satisfy any curiosity for what this contacted state feels like to…
A couple of years ago the Dalai Lama attended a large scientific meeting in Washington DC. He met with doctors, neuroscientists and…
We all need each other It’s been an eventful past couple of weeks. Two weeks ago we experienced yet another horror with…
I think we all have an aspiration to be kind. I do. And I am keenly aware that I don’t always live…
You are most likely one of the majority of people who may agree with a finding in a recent major poll that…
The other day I was re-reading parts of Karen Armstrong’s illuminating autobiography The Spiral Staircase: My Climb Out of Darkness. Her experiences…
There’s an old Zen story that I like very much. A monk comes to the monastery of Zhaozhou and asks for teaching….
Here in Honolulu we are preparing for the first hurricane set to make landfall on our islands in 22 years. Mainland newspapers…
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