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October 25, 2023

Use Your Life as Your Practice

If meditation becomes something we think we have to DO, we are missing the point of meditation all together. Use your life as your practice.

October 10, 2023

Becoming the Silent Witness

When we meditate, what we are practicing is learning how to remain in a permanent state of consciousness. We’re trying to break our old patterns of running from the present moment or being hijacked by our thinking mind.

October 4, 2023

The Power of Now - A Reflection on My Time with Eckhart Tolle

I recently returned from a life-altering trip to Europe which included a week-long retreat with spiritual leader Eckhart Tolle. I’ve been a student of Eckhart Tolle’s for about a decade now and he, as well as meditation experts, has been the primary reason I now teach meditation and marry my meditation teaching and guidance with […]

August 13, 2023

Obon: Japan’s Buddhist Festival of the Dead

Within the Japanese Buddhist community, this week marks a special Zen Buddhist celebration across Japan called Obon.

Fundamental Teachings of Buddhism: Right Thought

As we move along in our eight week series of the Noble Eightfold Path, it's time to examine the Fundamental Teaching of Buddhism: Right Thought. Thinking is the speech of our mind. Right thought makes our speech clear and beneficial. But then, as we are reminded of how each of the parts of the Noble […]

Fundamental Teachings of Buddhism: Right Mindfulness

Right mindfulness means to be diligently aware, mindful and attentive with regard to: Activities of the body Sensations or feelings Activities of the mind Ideas, thoughts, conceptions and things The practice of concentration on breathing is one of the most well known exercises connected with the body, for mental development. There are several other ways […]

Fundamental Teachings of Buddhism: Right Speech

The practice of Right Speech is to try to change our habits so that our speech arises from the seed of the Buddha that is in us, not from our unresolved, unwholesome seeds. Speech is our way for our thinking to express itself aloud. Our thoughts are no longer our private possessions. One part of […]

Fundamental Teachings of Buddhism: Right Effort

In the last three weeks, we’ve begun investigating what Buddha called the Noble Eightfold Path. The Noble Eightfold Path originates from Buddha’s very first teaching ever over 2500 years ago at Deer Park in Sarnath, India outside of the only remaining functioning religious city in the world, Varanasi. The Four Noble Truths are: Suffering or […]

Fundamental Teachings of Buddhism: Right Livelihood

As we continue our exploration of the Noble Eightfold path, we will examine Right Livelihood. The way we choose to support ourselves can be an expression of our deepest selves or it can be a source of suffering for you and others. The Buddhist sutras, or teachings, usually define Right Livelihood as earning a living […]

Fundamental Teachings of Buddhism: Right Action

Last week, we began our eight-part series of the fundamental teachings of Buddhism: the Four Noble Truths. The first being that every human life includes suffering. Distinct from pain, suffering is optional. The second Noble Truth essentially says that we can notice our suffering and how we create our own suffering through our thoughts and […]

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