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 […]
What does meditation mean? How do we go about working with our habitual patterns of behavior and the emotions in our daily lives? The only way we can do so is to begin by becoming genuine and down to earth with ourselves and those around us. One of the ways I’ve been able to get […]
Have you ever wondered, "What is life coaching?" Maybe you've noticed that many of your days are spent being pushed around by your desires and dislikes. You find yourself striving to find happiness and an equal desire to avoid pain. Our conditioning determines our reactions to everyday encounters. For example, someone says something unkind or […]
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 […]
How can meditation affect anxiety? If you find yourself struggling with it, you're not alone. Aside from Ukraine for obvious reasons, the United States comes in second place among the top 10 countries with the highest rates of anxiety in the world. Let's talk about what meditation does to the brain! Of all of the […]
If you’ve been following this series over the past three weeks, we’ve been taking a very rudimentary look into the first three of the most basic and most fundamental of all Buddhist teachings: the Four Noble Truths. This fourth post brings us to Buddha’s prescription for how we embark on the path out of our […]
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. […]
Last week, we discussed the very foundation of Buddhist teachings, the Four Noble Truths (see Part One of this series to get caught up!). We explored the reality that life includes “suffering.” It’s simply part of what it means to be human. In essence, our suffering can only be caused by our reaction to the […]
We’re not here to survive life, we’re here to live. Somehow, we walk around with this idea that freedom is “out there” somewhere. We think that if we can just identify and fix whatever is wrong with our lives or ourselves, or whatever problems we’re having, we’ll be happy and fulfilled. What if instead, we […]
Even if we feel lonely and isolated, we can’t help but actually belong to many different groups. Our gender, our race, our culture, our country, our age group, our religion, our community, our workplaces. And many of us also belong to other organizations that we’re members of. But within all of these groups, are we […]