Margaret Wheatley discusses how to heal in the months following the tragedy of September 11, 2001.
Avalokiteshvara. Photo by Cea.Avalokiteshvara. Photo by Cea. Eric Holm on how visualization practice helps us overcome ego and pacify obstacles. Includes “A Visualization Practice: Avalokiteshvara, the Bodhisattva of Compassion.” The buddhadharma is renowned for its skillful methods of meditative training. In Vajrayana Buddhism, many of these methods are based on the visualization of archetypal wisdom forms, or deities. […]
Too cold to work out? Sure, but you can still do your body and mind plenty of good — while also making a real difference to others.
“Payasos!” a young boy yells down the valley. The hills, so dense with madrone and manzanita they seem canopied in green, echo back. Payasos!-Clowns!
Shrine with a picture of Dudjom Rinpoche. Photo by Jean-Pierre DalbéraTwo teachings by Kyabje Dudjom Rinpoche from his book Counsels From My Heart on medtation and on accumulating merit.
Photo by Catherine Bulinski.How do we maintain our faith in human nature when violence is loosed and innocents die? Robin Kornman points us to three 20th-century thinkers who looked into the abyss and yet asserted the transcendent goodness and meaning of life.
Our habit is always to return to a small view of our experience. meditation trains us to return again and again to a larger view of our existence.
Photo by Johnny Jet.“The biggest problem with sleep loss is that it’s not often recognized as a problem. Those under its influence ignore the real source of their problems.”
The wheel of dharma. Photo by saamiblog.The biggest mistake we can make, according to the Buddha, is to discount or minimize our suffering.
“I have felt an urgency to photograph the last of the Buddhist masters who received their training in Tibet before the Chinese invasion.”
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