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Featured Articles and Journals: Religion & Spirituality

Punk's not Dead, It's just Getting Older
by Kipp Efinger
November 26, 2012
Aging and rock n' roll don't go well together. When I listen to the music I love, especially old punk songs that nobody around me cares about anymore, I feel hopelessly doomed to a world where I keep getting older and the punk kids stay the same age...
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Mindful Writers: You’re Not Getting Graded on This
by Emily Herzlin
November 26, 2012
  Journaling as a Mindfulness Practice When I meditate, I sometimes notice myself thinking, Ok, Emily, concentrate, concentrate, hold on to the breath and have a good session this time, not like last time when you were all over the place.
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Daily Connect: What Should I Do?
by KimberlyBrown
November 26, 2012
This is what you shall do:
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100 Things We Are Grateful For
by Emily Herzlin
November 21, 2012
Selections from the The IDP Community Daily Gratitude Journals and the IDP Twitter feed (#IDPGratitude)
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SUFFERING: The Call To Investigate Beliefs
by Tara Brach
November 20, 2012
  “Reality is always kinder than the stories we tell about it.” - Byron Katie Can you imagine understanding, even loving, someone who belongs to a group of people responsible for killing your father, brother, or best friend? Can you...
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Three Steps to Unconditional Confidence
by Kipp Efinger
November 19, 2012
  There are two kinds of confidence: the kind you pump up and the kind to which you wake up. Conditional confidence comes from some kind of credential. If I read a book about cooking, I'm confident I know something about cooking. If I get...
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Where Courage is Born
by Kipp Efinger
November 7, 2012
A friend of mine told me a story in which his wife was pissed off. She let him have it with a list of grievances about the things he does wrong and how unhappy she is with their relationship. She couldn't keep her feelings bottled up anymore and...
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Mindfulness in a Middle Eastern Baklava Shop
by Kipp Efinger
October 28, 2012
I was just in the Middle East on my honeymoon. I could tell you a million things about how great Jordan is, how safe it is, all the wonderful things about Islamic practices, etc. But what I really want to talk about is what I learned about dignity,...
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When You Say Wife ...
by Nancy Thompson
October 27, 2012
In most of our human relationships, we spend much of our time reassuring one another that our costumes of identity are on straight. Ram Das
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The Radiant Awareness Living Through Us
by Tara Brach
October 16, 2012
  Sometimes you hear a voice through the door calling you, as fish out of water hear the waves, or a hunting falcon hears the drum's come back. This turning toward what you deeply love saves you … —Rumi  
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With Decline of Religion, Will Compassion Increase?
by Nancy Thompson
October 13, 2012
  I really feel that some people neglect and overlook compassion because they associate it with religion. Of course, everyone is free to choose whether they pay religion any regard, but to neglect compassion is a mistake because it is the...
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Compassion, Wisdom, and TeeTee the Turtle (IDP Seattle Blogger Group)
by samantha claire
October 10, 2012
I'm terribly late, a fact which my 18-month old son Oscar apparently does not understand. The whole morning is like nails on a chalkboard played in slow motion. In need of coffee, I set out from home under clear skies.
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Meditating Daily…”No Matter What”
by Tara Brach
October 9, 2012
 
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Undoing All the Doings
by Tara Brach
October 2, 2012
 
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Daily Connect: Aung San Suu Kyi and the homecoming court
by Nancy Thompson
September 26, 2012
In life terms, learning compassion in high school may be more valuable than geometry.
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Beyond the Defended Self
by Tara Brach
September 25, 2012
 
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Death, Meditation, and Times Square
by Ngejung
September 22, 2012
            Back in July, my best friend Patrick Morris and I set out for Times Square to try an experiment in our practice and in the way we share it. Our fellow IDP member Lani Rowe had come up with the idea of a...
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Mindfulness isn't enough
by Nancy Thompson
September 22, 2012
It's said -- metaphorically -- that mindfulness knows when the horse is out of the barn, and awareness knows to go look for it and bring it back.
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Why the F Should I Care About Right View?
by Rachana Suri
September 12, 2012
  A friend of mine posted this quote by Deepak Chopra on her Facebook page the other day:  "Every thought you are thinking creates a wave that ripples through all the layers of intellect, mind, senses, and matter, spreading out in wider...
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A Journey to a new 9/11
by shankardesai
September 11, 2012
  How will the eleven-year 9/11 memorial shape us?  Just as the date will arrive once, every year, forever, will the wheel of violence also turn eternally? Will this annual reminder harden us to more viciously pursue our goals of...
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Three Reasons I'm Still On the Path
by Kipp Efinger
September 3, 2012
After about five years of meditating like my life depended on it, I hit a wall. For the past two months, getting my butt on the cushion has been a struggle and a constant internal negotiation process. Summer felt good. Life felt good. Samsara...
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Post-Yoga (or Any Time) Relaxation
by Robert Colpitts
August 24, 2012
I’m going to share with you a relaxation exercise that I do after yoga sometimes that can help you relax after yoga or whenever you want. Lie on your back with your arms at your side, palms facing the ceiling. Relax your hips, neck, back, and the...
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Wisdom Medicine
by Meredith Arena
August 22, 2012
“Wisdom doesn’t look like one thing.” DPR This is easy to forget. Today it looks like structure and ferocity. Tomorrow it may look soft and vulnerable.  It may look like what naturally arises, but it may also be the opposing force to what seems...
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Living Life No Matter What
by Tara Brach
August 21, 2012
My earliest memories of being happy are of playing in the ocean. When our family began going to Cape Cod in the summer, the low piney woods, high dunes, and wide sweep of white sand felt like a true home. We spent hours at the beach, diving into the...
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Infinitely Profound and Subtle
by Patrick Groneman
August 20, 2012
From basic science class, I knew that I was actually looking at the light from stars as they shone thousands, millions and billions of years ago, many of which were now extinct.
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