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Theres a teaching from the Buddha about telling the truth that I find interesting and challenging. The setting is a story of the Buddha speaking to his son seven year old son Rahula. This is ri... Read more
Learning to Be Content
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I find it very helpful to have a guideline for making decisions as I move through my day. What are my values that guide my decisions? I like the framework of the Buddhist teachings for... Read more
The Bliss of Blamelessness
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My favorite translation of sila, which is the Pali word for ethical conduct, is compassionate morality. I like that term because there’s a heart quality -- it’s not stern; it’s warm, it... Read more
We are Deeply Interconnected
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There is a quote from Christina Koch, who is an astronaut, that space has a way of making you quiet. And in that quiet, you see more clearly.
Thats also an aspect of our practice: when we sit ... Read more
Nurturing Wise Attention
In our always-on world, constant notifications, screens, and noise can leave us feeling scattered, drained, and disconnected from ourselves.
Many of us sense that something is off.
We pick up our phones “just for a minute” and emerge an hour later fe... Read more
Mara, I See You
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Mara is discussed quite often in the suttas of the Pali Canon -- the stories and teachings about the Buddha. What I’d like to do is offer two baskets. The first basket is understand... Read more
Being Present Together
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How do you maintain a daily meditation practice? I started thinking about that question last night when considering what to talk about today. I thought Id share a little bit about my own journe... Read more
Seeing Our World Differently
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At one of our recent Sundays Together gatherings, a participant’s reflection on rumination opened into a thoughtful teaching from Pablo Das on how mindfulness can help us navigate the full spectrum of human e... Read more
Choosing How We Respond to Life
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In the Buddhist teachings, Wise Intention is one of what we call the path factors. Its the second factor on the Noble Eightfold Path. What is really important about Wise Intention is that that is something we... Read more
Starting the Path of Practice
In the spirit of this still being a relatively new year, I thought that I would talk about what are perhaps the most essential teachings of the Buddha: the beginning teachings. I was wondering, where do you start?
So I researched the way the Buddha tau... Read more