Finding Authenticity: When the Inner and the Outer Voice Match
Finding Authenticity: When the Inner and the Outer Voice Match I don’t pay attention to my inner voice very well. It’s vague,
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Healing Ecological Grief – Meditate in Nature
A new term, ‘Ecological Grief,’ describes our natural reaction to actual or anticipated ecological losses. No wonder there’s a term for this feeling. After all, we’re seeing the loss of species, ecosystems, and meaningful landscapes, all because of acute or chronic environmental change.
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Finding Bliss in the Challenge of Retreat
The teachers’ comments cut through the confusion. The belief that I couldn’t do it, couldn’t meditate properly, was simply another arising within the field of empty awareness.
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How will this support my mindfulness practice?
Until I learned to ask the question, “how will this support my mindfulness practice” in everything I do, I had a really frustrating time. In fact, I had two patterns that drove me crazy.
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Attached to The Suffering
Attached to Suffering – Following The Script for the Modern Happy Life Settling for A Normal Life From the time I was
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Learning To Integrate Mindfulness
Learning To Meditate Off The Cushion It’s amazing when you enter a clear and radiant state on the meditation cushion. But can
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Challenging My View of Asperger’s Through Dharma
When I was in university, things got clearer.
I was seeing a psychiatrist and in one session, he said that I have Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD, under which Asperger’s is now classified).
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Finding Connection in Aloneness
It’s a feeling that’s unexplainable, but during that week, I had a taste of what it felt like to be deeply connected to something. To something bigger than myself. Bigger than my problems and my struggles.
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Surrender – Is there always one hand on the controls?
One thing I gained from this taste of surrender was a feeling of deep peace and tranquility. When I didn’t care if I got what I wanted or not anymore, a true sense of freedom arose.
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Three Month Stay: I was Iron Ore in the Clear Sky Forge
I Was Iron Ore in the Clear Sky Forge By Ignacio Dirdam Metallurgy, which is the study of metallic chemistry and its
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So That Happened – Now What?
How different do your days look recently? Even without the backdrop of a global pandemic, it’s an uneasy feeling to suddenly have
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Fear and the Great Healing
Even as we heal and awaken ourselves, then, we affect all of humanity. So go do the work, for the sake of all sentient beings.
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Why I do regular retreats
One of our regular blog contributors, and the Secretary of our Board of Directors, Dan O’Brien, has just completed another cabin retreat
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Are You Using Transitions as a Meditation?
Do you find it tough transitioning from your working day back into your home life? Or going into work on Monday morning after a weekend with friends and family?
It’s a whole other shift of gears to transition into the energy of a retreat center.
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Let’s Try That Conversation Again
Does the above conversation resonate with you at all? Well, let’s try that differently this time, applying some mindfulness of what’s going on with me.
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Tips for Mindfulness Around Food, Phones, and Sex
How can we maintain our ability to stay aware throughout the day, when so many things take our attention and we mostly run on automatic pilot? The modern word for this is mindfulness.
Here are some tips from one of our recent creative weekends.
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Learning to Trust
Community – I guess for some people this is easy, yet for me it’s an area that I have struggled with for many years. It feels like climbing Mount Everest.
So, for a month, I pretended that my teacher hadn’t said what he did.
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Don’t you smell that, too? – I think we need to talk.
One thing that can happen when you think there’s an unacknowledged stink in the room is that doubt can creep in. Nobody else is mentioning it, after all! Although I want to say something, I’m questioning whether it’s just my reaction and maybe there’s nothing going on at all.
I have a way of dealing with this.
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How I ended up living in a spiritual community
Some moments move in fast forward. You blink, and it’s gone. Some moments move more like car accidents, and time seems to
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