Dharma explorations by Stephanie Noble

From over fifteen years of sharing her understanding of Buddhist concepts

  • Noticing: Thoughts on the Beach

    Walking on the ocean’s edge yesterday, I noticed huge clumps of kelp, all tangled like beached whales. This, I thought, is how thoughts are when they get tumbled in the rough storm of emotion. The beach was so clear that even the delicate tide lines showed, even the impressions of tidal bubbles left lacey tracks.…

  • Winter Solstice: Gift of the Season

    Whatever holidays we celebrate during this season, there is one underlying constant that we all share in the northern hemisphere, and that is the fact that this is the season of darkness. Tonight is the winter solstice, when the northern hemisphere of the earth is tilted the furthest away from the sun, giving us the…

  • Awake in the Wild, a book by Mark Coleman

    I am on hiatus for a month while in Mexico. The class continues meeting to meditate together and to read and discuss a book of their choice. From several options I gave them, they chose Mark Coleman’s Awake in the Wild. Since this is a book worthy of rereading, I plan to read it too.…

  • Día de los Muertos — All Souls’ Day

    Dia de los MuertosSan Miguel de Allende, Mexico Last week I saw the movie Hereafter where a little boy, having lost a loved one, types into Google, ‘What happens when we die?” It’s a question none of us can answer for sure. We may have beliefs and beliefs can be powerful, but even those who…

  • The Red Balloon

    In a recent speech to a group of mostly non-mediators, I shared the story of an illness I went through in 1990, the intensive meditative ‘retreat’ I had during the nine months of my recovery, and how my book Tapping the Wisdom Within, A Guide to Joyous Living was written from that meditative expanded state.…