From over fifteen years of sharing her understanding of Buddhist concepts
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Happy New Year!
As we continue our exploration of the Buddha’s Noble Eightfold Path, we culminate our look at Wise View with a new year and a new decade, hopefully with clearer vision! If we anchor our awareness in Wise View, sensing our interconnection and understanding the nature of impermanence, we will make wiser choices. May it be…
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Winter Solstice Offerings
A month ago I received a request from the Unitarian Universalist Assn. for permission to post my winter solstice poem on their Worship Web, a resource for all their ministers and congregants. I was honored! I wrote that poem in the early 1990s and it continues to be shared at solstice celebrations around the world,…
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You are not alone!
It may seem scary to let go of the fear-based clinging to a sense of separate self, but it’s really falling in love with life itself and discovering the freedom to be alive in this moment just as it is.
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Urges, impulses & intentions – oh my!
Have you ever regretted something you said or did? Of course. We all have. But what made us say or do it? Maybe it’s just the way we are. We’re just impulsive. Hmm, is that true?Through the regular practice of meditation, mindfulness grows and we become less subject to urges and more likely to check…
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Gratitude for this moment, just as it is
If you live in the US, Happy Thanksgiving! No matter where you live, gratitude is joyful to cultivate even without a harvest feast. Maybe you can make a long list of all that you are grateful for. My list includes my favorite seasonal fruits shown here: easy-to-peel satsuma mandarin oranges and crunchy fuyu persimmons. Delicious!…
STEPHANIE NOBLE 