Dharma explorations by Stephanie Noble

From over fifteen years of sharing her understanding of Buddhist concepts

  • Letting Go: Beyond the Labels in Relationship

    After reading through the Dance of the Seven Veils in the previous post, it may seem as if we are being asked to give up possessions, relationships, our very skins! But of course that is not the case. Instead we are looking at what it might be like to let go of our habit of…

  • The Dance of the Seven Veils

    We have looked at the first and second Noble Truths: that there is suffering and that the cause of suffering is grasping, clinging and pushing away. The Third Noble Truth is that this suffering can end. The following is something I wrote many years ago, before studying Buddhism, but it speaks to the same possibility.…

  • In this post election moment

    Globally shared euphoria. This is a new emotion for me! As I sit with it, I marvel. I watch how just the thought of ‘President Obama’ sends a warm bath of relaxation through me, how my lips of their own accord turn up at the corners. How my eyes tear up for joy. I also…

  • Meditation on the Skeleton

    In meditation we often do a body scan, bringing awareness of sensation and opening to the possibility of relaxing and letting go of tension.This meditation has the same thing, but the attention goes to the bones.Starting with the skull, just being aware of the smooth surface, appreciating the protective nature of the skull as it…

  • POEM: Clinging

    Sometimes life feels likesitting in an over-air-conditioned theateron a sweltering summer dayhaving forgotten to bring a sweaterwatching a horror moviethat raises my hairs on endand my shoulders, neck and jaware whipped to a frigid froth of tensionmore caffeinated than a frozen frappe,but remaining seatedcaught up in the plotand dreading the heat outside,even though the warmthwould…