Blog: Notes on Healing and Awakening

Blog: Deep Listening: Ear of the Heart

Blog: Deep Listening: Ear of the Heart

Most of us consider listening a great virtue. We love having others listen to us with interest and care, and we hope to be good listeners ourselves. But for most of us, listening...

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Blog: Learning To See Past The Mask

Blog: Learning To See Past The Mask

My friend Richie and I met when we were juniors in college. A shy, thoughtful African American man, he was known for carrying his camera everywhere, listening as others poured...

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Blog: Awakening Through Anger

Blog: Awakening Through Anger

One evening after my Wednesday night meditation class, Amy, a member of our D.C. meditation community, asked if we might talk for a few minutes about her mother, a woman she...

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Blog: Entrusting Yourself to the Waves

Blog: Entrusting Yourself to the Waves

I was drawn to my first Buddhist mindfulness retreat during a time when my son, Narayan, was four, and I was on the verge of divorce. During a slow, icy drive through a winter...

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Letting Life Live Through Us

Letting Life Live Through Us

Many years ago, after several years of experiencing a long chronic illness, I attended a six-week Vipassana meditation retreat. Given my struggles with sickness, I looked forward...

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Which Wolf Are You Feeding?

Which Wolf Are You Feeding?

After the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks, as many people feared an ongoing and vicious spiral of retaliation and global violence, a wonderful and well-known Cherokee legend...

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Rejecting the Wanting Self

Rejecting the Wanting Self

“We have been raised to fear…our deepest cravings. And the fear of our deepest cravings keeps them suspect, keeps us docile and loyal and obedient, and leads us to settle...

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Blog: Opening the Gateway of Love

Blog: Opening the Gateway of Love

As one of the American pioneers credited for bringing Eastern spirituality to the West, Ram Dass had more than four decades of spiritual training to help guide him when he...

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Blog: Stepping out of Obsessive Thinking

Blog: Stepping out of Obsessive Thinking

I’d gone into therapy during my sophomore year in college, and remember the day I brought up my current prime-time fixation: how to stop binge eating. No matter how committed I...

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Blog: Planting Ourselves in the Universe

Blog: Planting Ourselves in the Universe

Here in this body are the sacred rivers: here are the sun and moon, as well as allthe pilgrimage places. I have not encountered another temple as blissful as my own body—Tantric...

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Blog: Undoing All the Doings

Blog: Undoing All the Doings

Meditation students often ask me what will help them remember presence in the thick of things. My first response: “Just pause.” My second response: “Pause again, take a few...

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Beyond the Defended Self

Beyond the Defended Self

  During the years right after college, I was the director of a yoga studio at the ashram where I was living near Boston. One day, at a time when we were behind in promoting...

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Blog: You Are Not Your Space Suit Self

Blog: You Are Not Your Space Suit Self

Whatever came from being is caught up in being, drunkenly forgetting the way back. -Rumi We are born with a beautiful open spirit, alive with innocence and resilience. But we...

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Trusting the Gold: Uncovering Your Natural Goodness

Trusting the Gold by Tara Brach

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