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What is your heart for?

by Eric on May 4, 2012

It’s May. When I look around, the flowers remind me . . .

 


What helps you remember? What blooms your heart?

 

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Fire For Creative Joy

April 19, 2012

Are You on Fire? We recently took three days off and went to a hot springs. There’s one bath there that’s hot enough to boil an egg. When I first step into the molten water, I cringe. I’m only in up to my knees but already it seems impossible to go deeper. My whole nervous [...]

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First you cultivate Loving Kindness

February 16, 2011
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What are you not noticing?

January 18, 2011

When my family first moved to San Diego, we lived in a neighborhood called Ocean Beach. It’s close to the ocean and the airport. I loved being close to the beach. But, the regular roar and rumble of jets overhead bothered me . . . for about six weeks. Then, I habituated. It wasn’t that [...]

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Are You Lost in Thought?

January 4, 2011

It’s so easy to get lost in thought. It’s what the mind does best – generate thoughts, emotions, and beliefs. Then, the mind looks out at the world through these very thoughts/emotions/words/beliefs. The mind builds a matrix of words, a veil of language, that separates you from direct communion with life. Words upon words thicken [...]

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The Problem with Being Positive

December 7, 2010

I was at lunch the other day with a friend. While I waited for my soup, I kept smelling the spicy aroma of Tabasco sauce. My mouth watered. So, when my soup arrived I liberally dosed it with the spicy sauce. I went over board. From pleasantly spicy to tastelessly burning. Too much of a [...]

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