Dharma explorations by Stephanie Noble

From over fifteen years of sharing her understanding of Buddhist concepts

  • Who’s your tribe?

    A prime motivator of the human species, right up there with safety, is comfort. Over millennia we have developed creative ways to provide ourselves shelter from weather extremes, food at our fingertips, soft places to sleep and sit, and ways to travel great distances with ease. Ah, comfort!  Conformity is comfort, too. We feel safer…

  • What I learned on my summer vacation

    Life lessons abound, and a family vacation is full of them!

  • 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.

  • Open your channel of creativity

    Stephanie Noble offers valuable suggestions for unleashing creativity and quieting the inner critic.

  • Who are you letting shape your reality?

    Most of us accept the reality manufactured for us. We are endlessly subjected to the self-limiting perception of the need to name and claim instead of expanding our sense of who we are. In this blog post, Stephanie shares a video of a TED Talk by Ron Finley who challenges us to make our own…