I was exhausted last Friday. It felt like torture. After teasing us with a spring-like temperature, melting ice and glimpses of green grass on Wednesday, Mother Nature changed her mind on Thursday and delivered a …
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Together
Centuries before psychologist Carl Jung posited the idea of the collective unconscious, and biologist Rupert Sheldrake began talking and writing about morphic resonance, Nichiren Buddhism taught the Nine Consciousnesses. The ninth consciousness is Buddha nature, …
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How Jane Fonda Saved My Life
When I arrived in Montreal in 1974 I believed that my new country would treat me well. Less than a month later, I found out otherwise. (Please don't read this poem if you are easily triggered.)
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Listen, I’ll Tell You Something
One of the things I love about my Buddhist practice is that it puts my life in rhythm. I'm not just a little microcosmic cog in a big, unfeeling machine.
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Bring Back The F Word!
How do you bear with emotional pain in a way that nourishes and nurtures your inner growth?
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Weapons of Mass Distraction
Do you ever feel that Life is lining you up for something? Stacking the deck for, or against, you? I do!
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One Thing Leads to Another
A seemingly tiny improvement in how you feel about yourself can make a big difference over time.
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The True Meaning of Expansion
“The human spirit is as expansive as the cosmos. This is why it is so tragic to belittle yourself or to question your worth. No matter what happens, continue to push back the boundaries of …
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Are You Haunted by Your Past?
We breathe a kind of radioactive half-life into our past experiences by re-membering them, and reliving how awful they were, effectively creating zombie memories, phantom memories, which we use to haunt and frighten ourselves.
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Teachers and Trees and Healing Trauma
Trauma. PTSD. Nothing warm and fuzzy there. Or is there?
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