Kiss the joy as it flies
A poem by William Blake inspires a dharma post on finding joy.
Category: grasping
Who are you letting shape your reality?
Most of us accept the reality manufactured for us. We are endlessly subjected to the self-limiting perception of the need to name and claim instead of expanding our sense of who we are. In this blog post, Stephanie shares a video of a TED Talk by Ron Finley who challenges us to make our own reality.
Are you imprisoned by your preferences?
In the past four posts, I’ve written about the mind states of loving-kindness, compassion, sympathetic joy and equanimity: the Brahma-viharas,
Root-bound – Learning to Let Go
Just outside in the early spring sunshine, my neighbors were trying to pull a root-bound rosemary plant out of its
Holding Your Life in an Open Embrace
This was a speech with visual aids. I will try to get permission to use the photos I shared in
Meditation on Gratitude
Tomorrow we Americans celebrate Thanksgiving, and for many of us it’s a very busy day filled with the three F’s:
The Second Noble Truth & Coming into Skillful Relationship with Desire
In previous posts we explored the First Noble Truth: That there is suffering in life. The Second Noble Truth says
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