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Where’s the Battle? (Where’s the Peace?)

by Eric on May 8, 2012

Life can get very, very intense. Have you noticed?
In the Bhagavad Gita, this intensity is symbolized as a war. The whole text takes place . . . on a battlefield. But this isn’t an ordinary battlefield. It’s much more personal than that.
In fact, whether you’re standing or sitting as you read this . . . you’re on the battlefleld.

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Love or Reactivity (What are you growing?)

February 13, 2012

At a certain point in your spiritual development, you realize that: Practice is essential Everything is practice You really, really see (not just as an idea, but as a palpable, embodied realization) that you are always practicing. How you live is your practice. You are always reinforcing or releasing patterns. You are always strengthening old [...]

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How meditation heals emotions

January 17, 2012

When you pour tea into a tall thin cup, the tea assumes that tall, thin shape. When you pour tea into a squat, round cup, it assumes that shape. It’s wonderful that tea does this. It facilitates tea drinking. But your mind needn’t act like tea. Too often it does. How does the mind act [...]

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How to Hear the Inner Voice

October 15, 2011

  There’s such a tendency to seek expert advice – especially in a society of dizzying complexity where symbols of stability and security are dissolving before your eyes. And sometimes expert advice is needed. But there’s a voice of guidance within you. This inner voice is more primary, more essential, than that of any expert. [...]

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Be Still & Know

September 20, 2011

  The practice of meditation is one of subtraction. Letting go of images, expectations, beliefs, and assumptions in order to see & know Life-as-it-is.  This meditation – which I learned from Cynthia Bourgeault – uses a potent phrase from Psalm 46 to take you step by step into the ever-present mystery. Use the dharma doodle [...]

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Meditation & Email

July 18, 2011

The mind can get addicted to email.

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