From over fifteen years of sharing her understanding of Buddhist concepts
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Mindfulness and the Mirror
With the moment to moment practice of being fully present, anchored in physical sensation, noticing how thoughts and emotions pass through my experience, I find myself in a much kinder and healthier relationship with my body. I think of the Cat Stevens song ‘Miles to Nowhere’ when he sings, ‘Lord my body has been a…
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Wise Mindfulness, the Gift of Meditation
When I really began to have a regular practice of meditation, I noticed a shift in my awareness as I started to sense more deeply my surroundings and perceive the nature of my thoughts and emotions. While driving, I saw how I would get frustrated by the lack of manners or even common sense of…
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How to Find Wise View
Continuing with the aspect of the Noble Eightfold Path called Wise View, we have established that it has value but how do we find it? Wise View is not something we can track down. Instead we make ourselves available to it. We walk the path where Wise View is known to inhabit and trust that…
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What does Wise View do for you?
In our review of the Buddha’s Noble Eightfold Path we come to Wise View. You might fairly ask, ‘What is this ‘wise’ view and what makes it wise? Am I expected to be lock-step in line with some prefabricated view of things?’ Not at all. Wise View arises out of our own experience when we…
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Wise Effort & the Elements
The Buddha’s Noble Eightfold Path is an excellent tool to investigate what’s up in your life at this moment. ‘Why does my neck hurt?’ ‘Why am I foraging in the refrigerator again?’ ‘Why am I so annoyed at my husband or a coworker?’ Whenever something is up with you, pause and give yourself some time…
STEPHANIE NOBLE 