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As a meditator and mindfulness meditation teacher, I've learned that practicing mindfulness is not only about paying attention to what is happening here and now. It's also about discernment, about…
As a meditator and mindfulness meditation teacher, I've learned that practicing mindfulness is not only about paying attention to what is happening here and now. It's also about discernment, about…
I am a fluid, ever-changing work in progress. In Tibetan, sentient beings, conscious creatures that can have both positive and negative experiences, are called drowa, translated as 'migrating creatures.' That…
The new year is well underway, and, as always, time moves quickly. Many of us make resolutions each year, which we may have already broken--I'm guilty of that! But each…
The world is more interconnected than ever before. What happens on the other side of the planet affects us, and what we do affects those in far-off places. I don’t…
Every day we are confronted by ‘bad news’ stories on our phones, computers, and telephones. And it’s true that there are wars, cruelty, injustice, and violence in many parts of…
January 2021 There’s been a shift. Can you feel it? Since a new administration has moved into Washington, a sense of sanity has returned. Plans for dealing with the ongoing…
We live in a culture in which change is thought to come mostly from the outside. If only my career, relationship, lack of relationship, home, children, money situation were different,…
Are there changes you would like to see in your life but don’t know how to make them happen? Have you already tried to make a change but feel as…
It's spring in many parts of the world, and, as we are all a part of nature, we feel a sense of awakening, of energy, and perhaps of anxiety at…
Do you ever feel that you didn’t get enough attention as a child? Or maybe you got attention, but it was a negative kind, in which people pointed out your…