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"At the center of your being, you have the answer." – Lao Tzu

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April 28, 2018 Buddhism / challenges / Eight Worldly Winds / meditation techniques

In the vortex of the Eight Worldly Winds

Whatever is going on in your life right now, if you really pay attention, you will see that it is

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September 15, 2017 benefits of meditation / Buddhism / equanimity / Four Brahmaviharas / upekkha

Equanimity :: Holding life in an open embrace

In the last few posts of my dharma talks we have been looking at the Brahma-viharas, spacious mind-states where we

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July 23, 2017 Buddhism / cooking pot analogy / Eightfold Path / self-exploration

Sniff, sniff. What’s cooking?

One of the Buddha’s most handy-dandy teachings is called the Noble Eightfold Path. It’s a practical tool for sorting out

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April 29, 2017 Buddhism / choosing your path / insight / Spirit Rock Meditation Center / Vipassana

Coming home

When I first arrived at Spirit Rock Meditation Center in the early 1990’s, it felt like a homecoming. Home to

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March 4, 2017 analogy / Buddhism / cooking pot analogy / Eightfold Path / inquiry / insight / wisdom

Working with the Eightfold Path

For eight weeks we have been exploring the Buddha’s Wise Eightfold Path in order to incorporate it into our lives

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November 6, 2016 Buddhism / meditation / Paramitas

The Ten Paramitas :: A Review

The qualities we have been exploring are not alien to us. They are intrinsic to our nature. To the degree

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March 3, 2013 Anna Douglas / Buddhism / http://schemas.google.com/blogger/2008/kind#post / Pema Chodron / Tori Murden McClure / wise effort

How can what is difficult be the easy thing?

Anna Douglas, co-founder of Spirit Rock Meditation Center and my dear teacher Pema Chodron says, ‘Move toward difficulty.’ My teacher

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September 3, 2012 Buddhism / http://schemas.google.com/blogger/2008/kind#post / inner exploration / Jack Kornfield / loving awareness / loving kindness / metta / Suzuki

Being Kind to Ourselves Is Not Selfish

“The purpose of studying Buddhism is not to study Buddhism but to study ourselves.” – Shunryu Suzuki, author of Zen

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July 25, 2011 aversion / Buddhism / delusion / fear / greed / http://schemas.google.com/blogger/2008/kind#post / identity / inner aspects / labels / self-exploration / three poisons

Naming Our Poisons

The Buddha taught of the three poisons, the mental states that manifest in unskillful action and cause us and those

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May 9, 2011 Buddha / Buddhism / dharma / http://schemas.google.com/blogger/2008/kind#post / retreat / sangha / Taking refuge

Taking Refuge, Taking Root

At the beginning of a silent Buddhist retreat we ‘take refuge.’ This is a moment of deepening and clarifying our

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Stephanie Noble

Since 2004, Stephanie has taught her Thursday AM (CA time) women's insight meditation group. Now on Zoom. Contact for an invitation. She serves as a board member of the Buddhist Insight Network.

“Stephanie is an experienced Buddhist teacher with a deep practice and a very kind heart. My meditation group is fortunate to receive the benefits of her presence and teaching.”
– Rick Hanson, PhD., N.Y. Times bestselling author of Buddha’s Brain, Neurodharma, and other books

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