In the Buddhist practices, there are teachings to help ordinary people like us with connecting to our heart with openness and softness. These are called lojong teachings. The basic notion of lojong is that we can make friends with what we reject, those things we see as “bad” in ourselves and in others. At the […]
In order to transform our world, we first must transform ourselves. One of the ways in which we do this is being willing to go beyond our daily worries and conflicts as well as the stories we tell ourselves that we are convinced make us who we are.
Within the Japanese Buddhist community, this week marks a special Zen Buddhist celebration across Japan called Obon.
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 […]
What is Buddhism all about? By way of introduction, I'd like to impart upon you one of the primary Buddhist teachings, the Four Noble Truths. These teachings are purported to be the very first teachings given by the Buddha. They are significant because they give us a simple path toward liberation, or freedom. They represent […]
If you’ve landed on this page, you might be wondering why life coaching is important. You must have some inkling that it’s time to make some kind of a shift in your life. Perhaps you feel like you’re in limbo, trying to sort out just what you want to do next in your life. Maybe […]
In this third part of the basic Buddhist teachings of the Four Noble Truths, we’ll explore the truth of how to cease suffering. It’s in this third Noble Truth that we can find hope! You might remember from the First and Second Noble Truths that we begin to understand that life involves and includes suffering. […]
Are you feeling stuck, unmotivated and uninspired? Take your ego mind out of the equation! In Buddhism, all of the physical and emotional obstacles can be very powerful teachers. If we allow ourselves to get caught up in the daily minutiae and stressors in our daily lives, it can almost be impossible for us to […]
In my coaching practice, I encounter many clients who seem to be stuck either in a cycle of blaming another for life not turning out how they’d like or blaming themselves for what they perceive to be a failure. How do we get to a place where we are living blame-free? When we point the […]
Nothing lasts forever. Sound pessimistic? Think about it. Do you look today like you did a decade ago? Are those pretty flowers you received for Mother’s Day still fresh and alive? Do you still have the headache you woke up with last week? Nothing lasts forever. When we think of mindfulness, we primarily associate it […]