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... course on Buddhist Meditation:  The Noble Eightfold Path.             Peter Carlson of Orlando Insight Meditation March 14-20, 2010   Attended Yoga as Muse Writing Retreat in Taos, NM    ...

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... express his or her feelings toward you.” “Experiences come to try to bring the understandings necessary for you to evolve.” “Express and release everything you can.” 3.  Tricycle, The Buddhist ...

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... experience our lives free of struggle.  And one of the common features of all these different ways is a sense of extraordinary openness and groundlessness.” Buddhist thought is based on epistemology, ...

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... so, I have spent the first two hours of my morning reading widely in the wisdom traditions.  I have immersed myself primarily in Buddhism, Buddhist thought, and transpersonal psychology.  I gobble up the ...

(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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... a Psychology of Awakening. This is one of the most helpful books I’ve read this year.  Welwood’s approach to therapy is infused with Buddhist practice, and it is an approach that works for me right ...

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... but energized. In this new space, I will incorporate the Buddhist teachings at a new level, especially the principle of acceptance. In this new space, I will experience and develop new potentials I ...

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... 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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... myself, learn to accept what is before me, and to let a path unfold that is not marked by “craving and clinging,” as the Buddhist say.       We decided that both of us would undertake what we see as ...

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... of this issue is to cal us to a “way of living less caught up with self and more about just being—finding relaxation and awareness to be our natural state.”  The Buddhist path provides us with approaches ...

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Jack Kornfield says “the wisdom of uncertainty frees us from what Buddhist psychology calls the thicket of views and opinions.”  This is a really great lesson for me right now.  Especially ...

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 Morning Reading:  lectio divina   1.  Chapters Twenty-Three and Twenty-Four from The Wise Heart: a guide to the universal teaching of Buddhist psychology,      by Jack Kornfield. ...

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... for your friendship and especially for the support and wisdom you have shared with me in the last two weeks.  From both of you, I have received wisdom, compassion, and love that the Buddhist principles ...

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October 2009  Reading Morning Reading:  lectio divina 1. Chapters Nineteen and Twenty from The Wise Heart: a guide to the universal teaching of Buddhist psychology, by Jack Kornfield.  ...

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... the Shambhala Buddhist tradition they say, “Be bold, and mighty warriors will come to your aid.”  Bring on the warriors, I say.  ...

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... How would I interact with people?  Would I be useful in any way?  What could possibly be solved by “benign silence”?         And yet, I knew he was right.  I’ve been a student of Buddhist psychology ...

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Morning Reading:  lectio divina 1. Chapters Seventeen and Eighteen from The Wise Heart: a guide to the universal teaching of Buddhist psychology, by Jack Kornfield. See blog on this ...

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... to be visually challenged cause I just can’t get there.  I put the book away, waiting for the beginning of next month to plunge into Chapter Nineteen, “Buddhist Cognitive Training,” something I can get ...

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          Buddhist teacher and psychotherapist Peter Carlson takes exception to the notion of the universe “conspiring” to bring lessons to individuals.  This is a notion that ...

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August 31, 2009 Morning Reading:  lectio divina 1. Chapters Fifteen and Sixteen from The Wise Heart: a guide to the universal teaching of Buddhist psychology, by Jack Kornfield. See blog ...