sitting with yourself
Recently I came across one of those lists — this one was “50 things life is really about” — and while some items were kind of strange, some felt familiar to me, deep in my gut. One was “find your own...
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OH where even to start with this one. The story. We are our stories, our selves comprise all our stories, that’s one reason Alzheimer’s is so cruel; it wipes away our stories and leaves loved ones...
View Articlede-storying the re-storying
Not too long ago, July 17, I wrote a post titled “re-storying for compassion.” The whole idea there was to subvert the mean little stories I tell myself when I get frustrated with others by imagining...
View Articlethere’s always more than one way
you can find any image on the Internet Hey, yesterday’s post was number 1,400. What a nice number, and how nice to notice it, like when you happen to see your odometer rolling over a nice round number....
View Articlepleasure and the spiritual path
Last night I attended a dharma gathering with the title of the post — “Pleasure and the Spiritual Path.” After the lesson/teaching, the teacher asked questions and everyone contributed their own...
View Articlestrong back, soft front
El Presidente, charming On Tuesday night Marc and I met new friends for tacos at a great little Mexican joint down in Chelsea called El Presidente, before we all went to the dharma gathering at...
View Articleit’s even LITERAL
Yesterday I wrote about finally being ready and able to leave all the old stuff behind, stay present in time. I was thinking metaphorically, but also of course about thoughts, perspective. Last night I...
View Articlebubble follow-up
My last post about bubbles has been such a gift to me. I didn’t say this in that post, but the idea came to me as a whole, beginning to end, at the end of a yoga session. I was lying there in...
View Articlemeta
My friend Cindy posts a lot of things on Facebook that resonate with me. We have similar sensibilities in so many ways. The other day it was an Eckhart Tolle quote: What a liberation to realize that...
View Articleafter the thrill is gone….
….happens to be the title of one of my favorite Eagles songs from the 1970s. But I was also thinking about this yesterday when I was doing yoga. On June 27 I started a big project I kind of jokingly...
View Articlefighting the not-doing
Doing savasana in Nong Khiaw. Gosh I wish I were there right now. At the end of a yoga practice, you end in corpse pose — savasana. My yoga teachers always call it “the most important pose” and then...
View ArticleI do it my way
“You are the sky. Everything else is just the weather.” ~Pema Chodron I’ve been steadily meditating on that idea since last June, and it fits so beautifully — of course — with the focus on mindfulness...
View ArticleI’m not saying it’s magic, but….
Remember a couple of days ago I wrote a post about sitting with feelings — the ‘you are the blue sky’ one? In that post I talked about sitting with extreme anxiety that seemed to be due to a memory...
View Articlethose funny Buddhists
They are funny, you know. The Buddhists I know (not just junior-Buddhist-wannabes like me) are so light, they laugh all the time. All the time. They laugh at what they say, at what you say, at the...
View Articlegoing rogue
With gratitude to my friend (and former health coach) Jeff for that phrase in the post title, I too am going rogue with my meditation and mindfulness practice. Last night I went to Shambhala to listen...
View ArticleOK, I’m going in.
“The feeling that she had never really lived in this world caught her by surprise. It was a fact. She had never lived. Even as a child, as far back as she could remember, she had done nothing but...
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