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The balance of mindful awareness allows us to navigate life and practice. Mindfulness is an overused term these days. It might refer to anything from a meditation practice, to a lifestyle choice, to a fragrance. I wanted to narrow the focus down to a practical application of the term. Mindfulness refers to the natural […]
INTUITIVE INSPIRATION Intuitive inspiration refers to bringing our feelings and wisdom into parity. It’s a process of feeling ourselves into wakefulness which is a full application of our mind – or Mindfulness. Being culturally binary, we tend to separate instincts from our higher sensibilities. The gut seems personal and the higher mind universal. But […]
It’s Monday! Ugh. Another week. And whether it’s pushing through the same old grind, or a critical mass coming to a head on our head, we frequently look at our week as if it requires heroic doses of caffeine just to face the face in the mirror. Along with stimulants, we kick ourselves into gear […]
Halloween. A time when goblins and angels cavort together. Superheroes bent on saving humanity, or at least Gotham, walk hand in hand with super villains and serial killers. It’s strange to see these polar archetypes working together when our political parties cannot seem to get along. Vajrayana Buddhist teachings suggest we are entering a “Dark […]
When we talk about joy, we think of moments of pure happiness. But, it is said that joy is deeper than simple happiness. Happiness exists in the absence of suffering, even if that absence is temporary. We are happy for the moment. And moments of happiness are very important for stress release and building mental […]
ACCEPTANCE, THE GATEWAY TO THE PATH The Buddhist path is said to be vast and profound. Profound refers to the notion that the teachings reach below surface standard cognition penetrating to the depths of our being into our human experience. Vast refers to the many manifestations that the Buddhist journey takes and the many […]
HOW TO GET EVERYTHING YOU WANT From the moment we first cried out for our bottle to the time we sidled up next to someone at the bar hoping to have them buy us a drink, we’ve learned to manipulate our world. More specifically, we’ve learned to manipulate our feelings in order to manipulate others […]
PATIENCE, THE KEY TO SYNCHRONICITY Learning to work with anxiety is an important practice for anyone trying to maintain mindful balance in their lives. How often are we thrown off-course in life due to reacting unmindfully when prompted by our fear. Something feels wrong, and before we can look into what that may be, […]
The unreliable narrator is a technique used by writers to tell their story from a point of view that is changing, altered, or diminished in some respect. This creates a sense of un-ease in the reader. However, despite its temporal unreliability, this technique often reads as organic as it feels closer to how our minds […]
WITHOUT WARNING For Bobby Hughes, and All of Us The Buddhist teaching on impermanence is central to the idea of valuing the present moment. We have so little time left. And, for many of us, that time can be taken at any moment without warning. None of us know exactly when the end will […]