“It is helpful to remember that sometimes the most powerful medicine we can offer for suffering of any kind is simply kindness. It says: ‘You’re not alone. I see you. I hear you. I am with you.’ Even if it’s only…
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A Simple Act of Kindness
Tagged with: Buddhism, Caring, Christmas, Compassion, Kindness, Spiritual, Spirituality
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Insight
Something has been happening. No matter. Just be with what is. If I’m meant to understand it will happen. If I’m not, that’s just fine. I have learned not to trust my thinking head. Answers, the ones that I pay…
Tagged with: Abuse, Buddhism, Buddhist psychology, fear, insight, mantra, Meditation, Neural plasticity
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What about Jane?
“We begin in dreams. Then we wake up. The world shrinks to the size of our own little selves. We become egotistic. The isolated, skin-bound, brain-bound, self-feeling being that has been growing within us since we recognized ourselves…
Tagged with: Anger, Buddhism, Compassion, Ego, oneness, perception, Spiritual, Spirituality
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Karma
Karma means action. Every action has an effect. Actions most often are given birth from our thoughts. Our thoughts in turn are affected by our actions. An action I make has consequences. We are also all linked, every…
Tagged with: Anniversary, Buddhism, Interbeing, Karma, Love, Marriage, Mom, Mother, Spirituality
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The Dress
Did you ever have one of those “aha” moments, you know, the kind where everything changes for you? Maybe you get out of yourself a little bit, long enough to look at the world through a different lens.…
Tagged with: Buddhism, Compassion, Ego, insight, Love, Mom, Mother, perception, Spiritual, Spirituality
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This and That or There But For the Grace of God Go I
I was feeling disappointed this morning. I had just finished meditating, the whole time during which my lower back ached. I injured it a couple of weeks ago and it was hurting. A lot. So much for my plans. I…
Tagged with: Abuse, Being with what is, Buddhism, Creator, fate, future, God, samsara, Spirituality, suffering
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Legacy
As the earth gives us food and air and all the things we need May I give my heart to caring for all others until all attain awakening For the good of all sentient beings May loving kindness be born…
Tagged with: Abuse, Buddhism, Compassion, insight, Meditation, Mothers Day, Prayer, Spirituality
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A Slow Learner
One day my teacher, Venerable Karma Yeshe Wangpo said to me: “You should teach”. I didn’t. Some weeks passed. Again he said: “You should teach”. Still I didn’t. I guess I am a slow learner. For two whole years he…
Tagged with: Buddhism, Compassion, Creator, Ego, God, insight, Spiritual, Spirituality
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Like a Cloud of the Cumulus Sort
Life: Unpredictable. Changeable. Impermanent. When I gaze at my reflection in a mirror, the image I see is very different from the one I saw ten or thirty or forty years ago. From month to month, year to year, and…
Tagged with: Buddhism, Death, Impermanence, insight, life, poetry, Spirituality
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Cherokee Wisdom
The following is something that I shared in 2008 with a group of friends who came to my home to meditate on Sunday mornings. They had all wished to be included in regular emails that I sent out, emails in…
Tagged with: Anger, Buddhism, Cherokee wisdom, Ego, Feeding anger, Meditation, meditators, Spiritual, Spirituality, watching the mind
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Imprints We Make 