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LIFE IS CHANGE: Learn to let go of fear and accept change
Imagine that you have your hands full of chocolate cookies and your mother comes along with a cherry pie, hot from the oven with crumbles on top (feel free to…
ABIDING HAPPINESS: Embracing the reality of life with acceptance
Why don’t my children listen to me? Why can’t politicians tell the truth? Why did it have to rain on my wedding day? Reality baffles us. We question it every day…
CHRIST FOR BEGINNERS: Becoming aware of the God in all things
Born into a reformed Jewish family and growing up in a suburb of St. Louis in the 1950s, my first memory connected with Christ was my dawning awareness, in…
MIND CLEANSING SCHOOL: Finding fulfillment in life as a janitor
Life gives us an interesting plate. As an undergraduate I majored in business administration and minored in philosophy. A religious experience in my …
BLESS YOUR CIRCUMSTANCE: A prescription for personal and planetary healing
Some thirty-five years ago on a warm summer evening I was present as a very wise man lectured on the theme “Bless Your Circumstance.”…
The flow
An adult heart pumps up to 2000 gallons of blood throughout our body every day, without any need for conscious thought. The flow of life is much like blood being pumped throughout our body. Just as the heart works without conscious thought, so it is easy to live life according to the dominant paradigm of global capitalism without questioning it.
HEALING OURSELVES, HEALING OUR PLANET
As a child growing up in rural Ontario, I instinctively retreated to nature during times of trouble. A small island close to the banks of the river that ran through…
Mindfulness of breath
Taming the wild mind is a difficult task and it’s one of the primary reasons why meditation focuses so consistently on the breath. Just as our organs constantly work and our glands regularly secrete hormones without conscious thought, so does our mind work unconsciously. It’s estimated that over 80 per cent of all our thoughts [...]
TIMELESSNESS: Meditating with the Buddha in the Great Stupa of Dharmakaya
After spending the summer living and working at the Shambhala Mountain Center I didn’t get a chance to return for three months after I left. Quite longer than I…
RECLAIMING GOD: The experience of Oneness at kirtan
My disillusionment with theCatholic Church set in as a child and culminated when I stopped going to church as a teen. The Church posed a number of problems in…
SPIRITUAL IDENTITY: A Christian’s reinterpretation of his religion
Thich Nhat Hanh (Thay) regularly reminds his students to not abandon their original spiritual tradition in favour of his mindfulness practice. Upon first hearing this…
CULTIVATING ALTRUISM: The Dalai Lama on compassion and altruism
The basic sources of happiness are a good heart, compassion, and love. If we have these, even if we are surrounded by hostility, we will feel little disturbance…
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