“I have never lost my fascination with the underlying principles of mindfulness and aikido. Over the past 40 years, I’ve continued to discover new layers of insight about the same basic principles. I feel inspired to develop new ways to make these universal principles accessible to a wider range of people. The practices have helped me minimize my negativity and increased my feelings of competence and happiness. I am delighted to offer the same possibility to others.”
These words of wisdom from Lama Surya Das attempt to answer the question, “What is wisdom?” Lama Surya Das was born Jeffrey Miller in Brooklyn, New York and became a lama after studying in the Tibetan tradition for more than 20 years. He teaches the wisdom of dzogchen …
In Zen they say that you have to ask with the pores of your skin and the marrow of your bones. A Zen saying points out: Great questioning, great awakening; little questioning, little awakening; no questioning, no awakening.
Suffering and its unwholesome causes are not to be escaped but to be confronted””and eventually transformed into wisdom and compassion.
– Reverend Patti Nakai, “Someone Is Jealous of You”
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Our suffering is proof not of who we are–violent because of “human nature”–but of the fact that we are deluded, that we don’t know ourselves, and that if we are to end suffering we must, as Nietzsche says, become who we really are.
– Curtis White, “The Science Delusion”
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This wonderful quote, Take One Seat by Ajahn Chah sounds a lot like Zen. But Ajahn Chah was a teacher in the Thai Forest Tradition of Theravada Buddhism. He was the root teacher of Jack Kornfield and many other Western teachers looked up to him. Just go into the room and put one …
“This is the way to understand me. I am neither Sufi nor Zen, I am neither male nor female, I am neither positive nor negative. I am here to help you to transcend all polarities.”
– Osho, The Perfect Master
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The feedback for this event has been exciting. Linda D. wrote, “It worked out for us to watch your presentation live on Saturday. We appreciated both the content and your calm, caring delivery. I can imagine that it was well appreciated by all those in the room struggling with life threatening bladder cancer. It is so good of you to put out the energy to share with others what has been so helpful to you in your long healing journey.”
The Greater Good Science Center at the University of California, Berkeley was founded by research psychologists Dacher Keltner, Phil and Carolyn Cowan, and Steve Hinshaw. Dacher Keltner was a featured presenter in the Sounds True series, The Compassionate Brain. In his …
This food is a gift of the earth, the sky, numerous living beings, and much hard and loving work.
May we eat with mindfulness and gratitude so as to be worthy to receive this food.
May we recognize and transform unwholesome mental formations, especially our greed and learn to eat with moderation.
May we keep our compassion alive by eating in such a way that reduces the suffering of living beings, stops contributing to climate change, and heals and preserves our precious planet.
We accept this food so that we may nurture our brotherhood and sisterhood, build our Sangha, and nourish our ideal of serving all living beings.
– Plum Village Chant
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The feedback for this event has been exciting. Linda D. wrote, “It worked out for us to watch your presentation live on Saturday. We appreciated both the content and your calm, caring delivery. I can imagine that it was well appreciated by all those in the room struggling with life threatening bladder cancer. It is so good of you to put out the energy to share with others what has been so helpful to you in your long healing journey.”
Many people think that the goal of meditation is to achieve a state called “enlightenment,” nirvana, the ultimate dimension, the other shore, or God. In actuality, many of the states are not achievable when we are caught in our thoughts, feelings, emotions, plans, dream …
When you have peace within, real peace with others is possible.
“We often think of peace as the absence of war, that if powerful countries would reduce their weapon arsenals, we could have peace. But if we look deeply into the weapons, we see our own minds- our own prejudices, fears and ignorance. Even if we transport all the bombs to the moon, the roots of war and the roots of bombs are still there, in our hearts and minds, and sooner or later we will make new bombs. To work for peace is to uproot war from ourselves and from the hearts of men and women. To prepare for war, to give millions of men and women the opportunity to practice killing day and night in their hearts, is to plant millions of seeds of violence, anger, frustration, and fear that will be passed on for generations to come. “
– Thich Nhat Hanh
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The feedback for this event has been exciting. Linda D. wrote, “It worked out for us to watch your presentation live on Saturday. We appreciated both the content and your calm, caring delivery. I can imagine that it was well appreciated by all those in the room struggling with life threatening bladder cancer. It is so good of you to put out the energy to share with others what has been so helpful to you in your long healing journey.”
Dear Brothers and Sisters, I hope you are all well and warm on this winter morning. I know that with all of the hatred, anger and violence that is manifesting in our world, we are all looking deeply at how to engage effectively so that we can be of some help. I would like to o …
Bodhicitta is the path of understanding who you are in the fathomless nature of infinite contingency, and then developing the skills to navigate this reality””your life””in a way that is awakening for both yourself and for others.
– Elizabeth Mattis-Namgyel, “Nurturing the Intelligent Heart”
Healing Alert: Your are invited to view my talk on Mindfulness In Healing: How I Survived Bladder Cancer for more than 25 years from the Bladder Cancer Summit on Saturday, October 1, 2022 by visiting Resources for BCAN. Use the password “bcan2022” to get in.
The feedback for this event has been exciting. Linda D. wrote, “It worked out for us to watch your presentation live on Saturday. We appreciated both the content and your calm, caring delivery. I can imagine that it was well appreciated by all those in the room struggling with life threatening bladder cancer. It is so good of you to put out the energy to share with others what has been so helpful to you in your long healing journey.”
Focus: The Hidden Driver of Excellence is the new book by Daniel Goleman. He was recently interviewed by Joan Duncan Oliver in an article in Tricycle Magazine titled, Focus: The Power of Paying Attention. Unless you are a Tricycle.com member, you won’t b …
