Just Connect to the Feeling
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Just Connect to the Feeling The title is a play on the Journey song. Though it was a massive hit, I’m not a fan of the band, nor the sentiment of the song. Don’t stop believing? What would we do if we didn’t have to believe anything? Beliefs are things we have to squint our […]
Turn and Face the Strange …
Making Sure I’m still here I was riding in the car with a friend. After a time we had fallen into silence. I found myself having an imaginary conversation with a brother who lived on the other side of the continent. I’m an Italian American, so I talk to myself with my hands. My friend […]
Daily Practice Changes Everything There’s a feeling we all have that the more triggered we are, the greater the remedy we need. Therefore, we often overlook very basic and fundamental tools that help us regain and maintain emotional balance and mental clarity. Being triggered affects our stability because the experience compels us to react. Often […]
Good and evil. What cosmic narcissism to be the center of everything in the moral universe. The classic trope of the good angel on one shoulder and the bad angel on the other with us caught in a struggle between ultimate good and ultimate evil. Many of us continue to live under the weight of […]
By Nurturing Our Natural Kindness I wanted to reach out in the spirit of my mother, who passed a few years ago and for whom I will always carry a quiet torch. In many ways, she was the great love of my life—a spiritual guide, a dear friend, and a near perfect mom. Trudi, […]
Choosing Peace in Times of War These days many of us describe our world as crazy, cruel and chaotic. It seems socio political dysfunction is a common experience. This lack of stability in our outer reality understandably influences our inner health and wellbeing. When our mental health is attacked, even the pressures we normally face […]
The Joy of Letting Go Learning to let go is important to our health and happiness. Letting go is releasing into openness, rather than creating tensions that to shut us down. But letting go is not getting rid of anything. It is not pushing anything away. It is simply releasing our stranglehold on the things […]
The Role of Prayer in a Non-Theistic Tradition Buddhism has largely been divorced from the idea of an overseeing creator—someone to whom we can supplicate, someone managing our experience, someone to yell at us when we’ve gone astray. This is called Theism. Turning an object into a thing that, in turn, becomes a solid […]
And Living the Life We’ve Been Gifted In some readings of Buddhist thought, there is the interpretation that desire is problematic—that people on a path to awareness shouldn’t be desirous. We shouldn’t want anything, and we most certainly shouldn’t hold onto it if we did. I can’t think of a better way to forestall […]