From over fifteen years of sharing her understanding of Buddhist concepts
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A wacky way into wordless wonder
Thoughts are formed by words that prompt images of places and times that pull our attention away from here and now, the only moment that actually exists. (All others are memories or imagined futures. Only in this moment are we alive and empowered to set intention, make choices, speak and take action.) In Vipassana meditation…
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Feeling stuck?
For years we’ve had two patio tables that serve no purpose in our garden. I would occasionally think I needed to get rid of them, but there they sat, year in and year out, unused and unappreciated. Then — who knows why — yesterday morning I got on my rubber gloves, grabbed some rags, soap…
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What is the sound of many cell phones ringing?
The sweetest thing in the world — besides a baby of any species — is a sangha in silence on a meditation retreat. The quiet is delicious, like fine wine mellowing as it ages. Each day of the retreat the sangha (community of meditators) becomes more synchronized and sensate. Slowing down in the silence, there’s…
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Take Wing!
We all ride the worldly winds of life, but are we flailing, falling or flapping our wings more than we need to? Or do we think we can avoid the winds by cowering in our nest? We can’t. The Buddha’s Eight Worldly Winds (Gain/Loss, Pleasure/Pain, Praise/Blame, and Fame/Disgrace) are a metaphor for life itself. As…
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Radiate!
Happy Summer Solstice! Can you be fully present in this miraculous moment and radiate lovingkindness like the sun?
STEPHANIE NOBLE 