Heart | Spirituality

Self love — you’re doing it right

September 1, 2011

A strong and yet supple sense of who you are encourages self-reliance and autonomy. It means you are confident that the answers lie inside you instead of with someone else. It allows you to lay open your heart and fall into the heart of another without losing yourself. It lets you love your dark places without fear that they will drive people away.

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Everything I know about Buddhism I learned from Monkey

August 24, 2011

The tour guide is a Buddhist nun. She is young, Asian, and beautiful in spite of, or maybe because of her shaved head. She reminds me of Tripitaka, the Buddhist boy priest in the cult TV series Monkey. I wonder for a moment if the majority of my Buddhist education comes from television. No wonder I am confused.

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The 3-2-1 of the Universe

August 22, 2011

Some people stop at observing the Universe, some stop when they are in a relationship with god, and some people embody their higher consciousness in the first person and exclude all else. The Universe is You, Us and Me. All three aspects are important.

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What if Your Damaged Self Didn’t Need Healing?

August 8, 2011

Genpo Roshi (Dennis Merzel) is a former Zen Buddhist who teaches the practice of Big Mind. I watched one of his videos last night which was a process that unpicks all the different “voices” we have as part of the self, what they do for us and why they need to be heard. The process [...]

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Meditation : You’re Doing it Wrong

August 7, 2011

I’ve always struggled with meditation. David Deida says that feminine essence is about being filled and masculine essence is about being empty. Meditation is becoming empty. Or so they say. This week I have been meditating according to the principles in the Presence Process. It involves sitting with the emotions of fear, anger and sadness [...]

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When We Connect, We Heal

August 5, 2011

When I think my pain is unbearable, that life is cruel and unfair, and that somehow I’ve been singled out for unimaginable grief, the Universe reminds me that I am not alone. I feel your grief, your pain and your emptiness. It reverberates across time and space to link up with mine and with all [...]

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