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Author: Eileen Ybarra

Cultivating Calm During the Holidays

One of my favorite teachers, Larry Yang, once talked about mindfulness by comparing the mind and body to a snow globe. In everyday life, he said, the activities of the mind are like the little filaments inside it. Whatever is occurring in our lives pull... Read more

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Buddhist healing impermanence Eileen Ybarra

Author: Eileen Ybarra

Life, Death, & Change – the Gift of Impermanence

Many years before I began my meditation practice, I unconsciously considered my feelings related to loss and grief a personal failure, as if I somehow should have understood and been prepared for death automatically. My grandmother died in my early tw... Read more

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