From over fifteen years of sharing her understanding of Buddhist concepts
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Finding Our Way Amidst Uncertainty
I had been purposely trying to live in a state of don’t-know mind for the past few months. “Who knows? Maybe it will turn out okay,” I’d say to myself. And it was working alright. Sure, I looked a little silly walking around with my fingers in my ears going la-la-la, but I could function.…
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Cozy wisdom of the winter season
On a retreat I attended in 2009, Teja Bell, who led us in Qi Gong twice daily, taught us a gesture. Once we understood it, he asked us to feel what it was like to use just 70% effort—dialing it back a bit. What a concept! It’s not part of our cultural conditioning to try…
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The best gifts of every season
This time of year many of us run around trying to find the perfect gifts for those we care about. We might wear ourselves out, physically and emotionally, worrying how our gifts will be received. I still feel bad that I failed to give my daughter the actual Cabbage Patch doll so popular in the…
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The Gift of Gab
As we approach the various holidays of the dark season, let’s all brush up on our understanding of the Buddha’s advice for Wise Speech. It could keep us out of trouble. Wise Speech is one of the three aspects of the Noble Eightfold Path that relate to virtue. Virtue may have the connotation of being…
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Our True Colors
(Dharma talk given to Napa Valley Insight Meditation) The Autumn foliage is so beautiful this time of year. And it’s such a reminder of the nature of impermanence, anicca. The changing of the seasons. The coming of the dark season, whatever that brings up for us. For some of us, we look forward to being…
STEPHANIE NOBLE 