Featured Articles and Journals: fearlessness

When Your Heart Breaks Open, Fear Has Somewhere to Exit

by Lawrence Grecco

April 26, 2013

I’ve always had a stock of “worst case scenarios” tucked away somewhere in my mind that would fill my heart with dread whenever I was brave enough to consider what life would be like should any of them ever come to pass. Some of these...

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Identity of Relative and Absolute (Sandokai) by Zen Master Sekito Kisen

by Joren

December 13, 2012

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West Wind # 2 - by Mary Oliver

by Joren

September 20, 2012

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How to Be a Coward

by Kipp Efinger

June 25, 2012

I got snippy with a guy the other day. I could see the surprise on this face, so I realized I needed to turn down the volume. I felt a bit embarrassed and he felt a bit hurt. We went on with our conversation, pretending like nothing...

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Insideidea Lepidoptera

by Joren

June 21, 2012

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Experiencing Pain

by Kipp Efinger

June 18, 2012

Life is beautiful and full of pain. When we feel something painful in our hearts, our instinct is to escape. We can be like little kids, seeing a bee and running away in terror.

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The Buddha Freestyles: Jay-Z and Overcoming Fear

by Lodro Rinzler

April 26, 2012

The Buddha Freestyles is a new weekly column where I will take a quote from hip-hop and occasionally other forms of music and interpret how it can relate to living a life of mindfulness and compassion. Have a suggested lyric? Send it over. --

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