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July 2010 Reading
(Influences/Influences)
... He says in his introduction, “in the deepest or highest part of you, you embrace the All.” He offers here methodologies for exploring the territory of “your own true selfless Self.” In the last chapter, ...
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Who Is In Charge?
(Journal/Journal)
... (Stanley) who was making his owner’s life a nightmare. Cesar, who says he rehabilitates dogs and trains their owners, showed the owner that the dog is not really a bad dog, but presents with bad behavior ...
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Where Do Prompts Come From?
(Twelve Doors/Twelve Doors)
... much for me as it is for you. Each one of these prompts comes out of my life experience, my fears, my problems, my joys and small satisfactions. They are, in a sense, mini-essays, small explorations into ...
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Mahamudra
(Influences/Influences)
... you actually experiencing in the mind and in the body: moment by moment? This is getting down to the essential nature of your life. McLeod says “each of us had the possibility of finding a way to ...
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Misguided Yogi
(Lessons from the Mat/Lessons from the Mat)
... to overcome if you can get your head out of some future dream that may or may not be possible (or even necessary). Calvin says often in class, “Anyone can do this practice.” He’s says this for the benefit ...
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Live Life Beyond Words
(Sabbatical/Sabbatical)
... down paths lined with the wisdom of others, maybe it’s time to trust my own connection to wisdom. This might be May’s lesson: put your books aside. Zen monk and poet Seido Ray Ronci says, “It’s only ...
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Lean in to the Difficulty
(Influences/Influences)
... I’m not smart enough to do this. I’m not talented enough to do this. My work isn’t good enough. Why did I even presume to think I could pull this off? At these moments of false belief, Chodron says ...
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Dispatched
(Sabbatical/Sabbatical)
... I'm paying attention. There are issues in life—our life lessons—that simply will not be dispatched. Pema Chodron says, “Nothing ever goes away until it has taught us what we need to know.” And ...
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Can You Wiggle Your Toes?
(Journal/Journal)
... the Shambhala Buddhist tradition. Chodron says “there is no solid obstacle except our own need to protect ourselves from being touched.” Protect ourselves from being real. Protect ourselves from being ...
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April 2010 Reading
(Influences/Influences)
... Buddhist precepts and practice, as well as in the service of spiritual evolution. Welwood says: A comprehensive psychology of awakening would explore the relationship between the suprapersonal, the ...
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A New Kind of Balance
(Journal/Journal)
... here. In the Buddhist tradition, this is the constant lesson. No matter what experience is in front of you, it is workable. Chogyam Trungpa says not to suppress or destroy energy of an experience ...
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Precepts for the Evolutionary Teacher
(Sabbatical/Sabbatical)
... we’re at to the next higher, wider, deeper state or stage. 12. Such transformation happens through dynamic, creative friction, or as Andrew Cohen says, “creative conflict and positive friction.” ...
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Pop
(Journal/Journal)
... in my life. Welwood says, Human life always entails some kind of unsatisfactoriness or pain—the pain of birth, old age, sickness, and death; the pain of trying to hold on to things that change; the ...
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What is Your Dharma This Year?
(Sabbatical/Sabbatical)
... at the Stairs, says to the protagonist: “Don’t make your own life your project in your own life: a complete waste of time.” We all laughed at that, especially because the protagonist is a young college ...
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Adore
(My Writing/Poetry)
... Ahhhhhhhh-dore. She says the word deliberately. Open, trusting, willing, on her best days she can believe her mouth will be filled with the sweetest nectar, the most potent nourishment. She will be ...
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February 2010 Reading
(Influences/Influences)
... the hell hound Devon, Katz writes: “I think of a great marriage that absorbs disruption but endures.” And this, he says, is exactly what happens between a well-matched man and dog. On both sides, as ...
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Get quiet, soften, a way will open.
(Influences/Influences)
... This desire was, of course, my reactive mind, a mind-state, Mattis-Namgyel says, in which we “lose our reference points, our body tightens, our breath shortens and our vision narrows.” And of course, ...
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I Think I'm Depressed
(Influences/Influences)
... but that’s where I’m called to be right now. Be in the space of not knowing, my inner voice says. Let that which wants to die go, and allow something new to fill the space. Let it be, little border ...
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January 2010 Reading
(Influences/Influences)
... his editorial, senior editor Barry Boyce says that mindfulness is about “letting go of the project of creating ourselves and instead paying gentle, firm attention to whatever presents itself. One moment ...
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The Worst Thing About Living Alone
(My Writing/Poetry)
... no one who says, “Honey, I’m running up to the grocery store. Need anything? Or when you put clean sheets on the bed and iron the pillowcases so they’re smooth and soft to your cheek, and there’s no ...