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Category: loss

September 19, 2020 death / illness / loss / meditation / metta / Wise Action / Wise Speech

Being a friend in times of need

When someone is suffering, what can we say or do to help? The wise women of my weekly sangha offer advice from years of experience. And the Buddha has a few guidelines too.

August 10, 2019 death / habit / loss / marriage / ritual

What role does ritual play in your life?

Exploring the different between habit and ritual, discovering the value of ritual, whether inherited or invented, and finding a way to ritualize necessary activities to enrich our lives.

October 6, 2017 breath / grief / loss / poem / self-acceptance / tree analogy

But then I remember

Amidst all the conflicts going on — the mental illness that leads to massacre, the fear that leads to hate,

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August 13, 2017 benefits of meditation / caregiving / death / loss / Uncategorized

The Practice Put to the Test

In recent weeks my meditation practice was put to the test. Together with my husband and five visiting family members,

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May 20, 2017 difficult emotions / difficulty meditating / grief / loss / Uncategorized

How to Sit with an Elephant in the Room

  Sometimes in life we are faced with great challenges and difficulties that, when we sit down to meditate, simply

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June 8, 2014 gratitude / http://schemas.google.com/blogger/2008/kind#post / loss / moment / retreat / silence

Great Gratitude Retreat

I just led a daylong Great Gratitude retreat that seemed to leave everyone in a state of bliss and yes

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May 12, 2014 blame / Eight Worldly Winds / gain / http://schemas.google.com/blogger/2008/kind#post / loss / pain / pleasure / praise / reputation

The Buddha’s Eight Worldly Winds

It’s been really windy lately. I notice that I get anxious in high wind, imagining how it is sucking the

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September 17, 2012 coping / emotion / grief / http://schemas.google.com/blogger/2008/kind#post / loss / mourning / transition / trauma

Transitions, Loss and Discovery

We are in the few weeks between the ‘end of summer’ marked in the US by Labor Day and nature’s

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November 5, 2011 blame / Eight Worldly Winds / gain / http://schemas.google.com/blogger/2008/kind#post / loss / pain / pleasure / praise / reputation / river analogy

Buddha’s Eight Worldly Winds

In exploring the Buddha’s teaching stories and analogies, I find myself elaborating and embellishing. It feels to me as if

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December 11, 2008 breath / compassion / fear / Four Brahmaviharas / http://schemas.google.com/blogger/2008/kind#post / karuna / loss / pity / sympathy

Karuna, Accessing Deep Rooted Compassion

Have you ever been in a situation where people were feeling sorry for you? Perhaps you had suffered a great

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Stephanie Noble, author of 'Asking In, Six Empowering Questions Only You Can Answer', has been teaching insight meditation since 2004, and sharing her dharma posts since 2007. She serves as a board member of the Buddhist Insight Network. She teaches her Thursday morning Marin Insight women's class on Zoom. Contact for an invitation.

“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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