Articles tagged with: meditation
BACKGROUND: This kind of meditation practice has been the basis for the development of most of the saints or enlightened people throughout the ages. In modern times it has been shown to improve …
Background
Especially when we are at work, most of us are in our minds, using our rational thinking, most of the time. It’s important to become balanced between heart and mind. This is an …
For kindness to be more fully realized, it needs to be distinguished from being ineffectual or meek. It also needs to be infused with wisdom, supported by courage, and threaded with balance.
- Sharon Salzberg, the …
What is your deepest connection to the natural world around you? Your heart-based connection to the world around you? Your community in the way it is meaningful to you? Map your local area and …
To live content with
small means,
to seek elegance rather
than luxury,
and refinement rather
than fashion,
to be worthy, not respectable,
and wealthy, not rich,
to study hard, think quietly,
talk gently, act frankly,
to listen to stars and birds,
babes and sages,
with open heart,
to …
Hardly a day goes by that I don’t pull a card from this beautiful and inspiring deck - 36 illustrated cards. I learn so much about trees. And myself. I take just a few minutes …
This is my favorite meditation when I need spiritual healing help; I expect I do it a few thousand times a year, but then again maybe I need more help than others. During high …
After a stressful, kind of terrible freshman year, I wanted to do everything I could to create a space that emanated peace, well-being, and compassion. So, sophomore year, I hung prayer flags over …
A friend whent to a three-day workshop with Tibetan Buddhist master Yongey Mingyur Rinpoche, author of The Joy of Living and other inspiring books, and she came away with two pearls of wisdom from …




