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Pema Chodron Pema served as the director of Karma Dzong, in Boulder, until moving in 1984 to rural Cape Breton, Nova Scotia to be the director of Gampo Abbey. Chögyam Trungpa Rinpoche asked her to work towards the establishment of a monastery for western monks and nuns.

Posted on April 8, 2013 | Views: 3704

How We Get Hooked and How We Get Unhooked

By Pema Chödrön: Shenpa is the urge, the hook, that triggers our habitual tendency to close down. We get hooked in that moment of tightening when we reach for relief.

Posted on April 7, 2013 | Views: 2676

Making Friends With Your Fear

by Ed and Deb Shapiro: What is your greatest fear? Ed’s mother died when he was only five days old. How does a child grow up without the fear of losing loved ones?

Posted on April 6, 2013 | Views: 2426

How Meditation Might Boost Your Test Scores

by JAN HOFFMAN: Mindfulness meditation, the ancient and flourishing practice that increases awareness of random thoughts and redirects attention to the present moment,

Posted on April 4, 2013 | Views: 2606

Your Past Need Not Become Your Future

by Ed and Deb Shapiro: No matter how hard we want to, there’s one thing we can never do, and that’s change the past.

Roshi Joan Halifax Zen Buddhist roshi, Joan Halifax is an ecologist, anthropogist and civic rights leader, but she is mostly known for her compassionate work with the terminally ill.

Posted on April 3, 2013 | Views: 3079

by Roshi Joan Halifax: (Exercise from The Lucky Dark) In teaching care of the dying, I often begin by asking questions that explore our stories around death, including the legacies we may have inherited from culture and family.

Posted on March 27, 2013 | Views: 4345

Emptiness: The Most Misunderstood Word in Buddhism

by Lewis Richmond: “Emptiness” is a central teaching of all Buddhism, but its true meaning is often misunderstood.

Marianne Williamson Live a Miraculous Life: God Will Replace the Darkness With Light.

Posted on March 27, 2013 | Views: 2792

Our Deepest Fear

by Marianne Williamson: Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. It is our light, not our darkness that most frightens us.

Posted on March 25, 2013 | Views: 2554

Jean Shinoda Bolen – We Came to Make A Difference

Jean Shinoda Bolen explains that in the second stage of life a woman’s blood is retained to create a baby and that in the third stage her blood is retained to create wisdom.

Posted on March 24, 2013 | Views: 2774

What Is True Friendship?

by Paramhansa Yogananda: What Is True Friendship? Friendship is a manifestation of God’s love for you, expressed through your friends. Friendship is the purest of all love. In filial love, in the love of parents for their children, and in the love of lovers there is compulsion. But in true friendship there is no compulsion.

Posted on March 24, 2013 | Views: 2751

The Philosopher’s Stone

by Paramhansa Yogananda: A proud prince and his large retinue galloped into a Hindustan jungle on a hunting expedition. After bagging many game birds and animals, the prince and his party lost their way in the jungle. They had food but no water, and though they searched frantically, they found no water.