It's easy to get fixated on resentment in life. We resent not being loved; we resent snarky remarks; we resent our talents going unnoticed; we resent prejudice; we resent not being perfect. But resentment is the ground for us to work from when...
All of us experience states of mind that cause us to feel anxious, depressed, fearful, uncertain, insecure, envious, doubtful, impatient. These feelings can seem so powerful at times that we try to eradicate them as quickly as possible...
The end of May brings the end of Arts month at IDP, as well as Memorial Day in the US. Over the course of the month, I’ve been contemplating and studying the book True Perception by Chögyam Trungpa
Every one of us is getting older, which is a natural process. Time is constantly moving on, second by second. Nothing can stop it, but what we can do is use our time properly; that is in our hands. HHDL
“Suffering occurs when whatever we have – whatever we are – is assumed to be not right – not enough, too much, just somehow off ”Ethan Nichtern
Lately my practice has been to notice this over and over again, both in macro and micro.
"The Maze ... broke down the traditional relationship between performer and audience, and placed both in a bizarre and engaging space that opened up new possibilities for interaction."
It was just over a year ago that I very publicly withdrew from the Taego Overseas Seminary after learning about their discriminatory policies; until then these policies had been unknown to me and the general public....
I hate change. If the coffee shop runs out of my usual olive oil cake in the morning, I'm shocked and confused and completely dissatisfied with a croissant or a tarte. When my roommate tells me she's moving in three months, I'm in a...
The Buddha Freestyles is a new column where I will take a quote from music and flesh out how it can relate to living a life of mindfulness and compassion. Have a suggested lyric? Send it over.
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Your head will collapse If there's nothing in it And...
Relationships change, power dynamics shift, internally and externally. The flow and force of habit and negligence pummel up against the revealing light of awareness, and something shifts...
“What is drama and what is dharma? I guess you could say drama is illusion that acts like truth, and dharma is truth itself-the way things are, the basic state of reality that does not change from day to day according to fashion or our mood or...
In Turning the Mind into an Ally, Sakyong Mipham Rinpoche describes the act of starting your meditation session with intention. He says it is, "like putting a rock on a leaf." It's really helpful for me to conjure this image whenever...
On this Mother’s Day, the woman who is sort of officially/unofficially my stepmother is standing guard over my father, making sure that he does not kill himself. In the past few weeks, my father has been in the hospital three times, the latest...
The classic instruction to "regard all beings as your mother" or the realization that you've lived through so many lifetimes that every being has been your mother at some point and therefore is worthy of love and respect doesn't work today...
