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  • Make the Most of Your Day

    This week’s words are from Pema Chodron, taken from a 2008 article in Shambhala Sun (now Lion’s Roar) magazine, titled “How to Make the Most of Your Day.” She recommends…

  • Letting Go I

    In our lives, we often get “stuck” in a pattern of thoughts or feelings that won’t seem to go away. We want (sometimes desperately) to make this difficult feeling or…

  • Keep It Simple

    We get together each week as a group to practice together and to notice what is new and changing in the practice for each of us. By expressing and sharing…

  • Improvisation

    My Son is an Improviser. I am a Buddhist. My son gets together with a group of other improvisers for performances and, with the mere suggestion of a topic, they…

  • Impermanence III

    Based on the results of this last election, you all may know those who are elated at the result and those who are devastated, saddened, and worried about our future.…

  • Habitual Patterns

    This week’s words are from the Insight Meditation teacher Trudy Goodman in an article from Lion’s Roar magazine. The habitual patterns that arise in us seem to have a life…

  • Noble Truth III-B — Garage Doors

    Now, in relation to the Third Noble Truth: Cessation of Suffering, I would like to talk about Garage Doors. I have a garage. It has a door with an electric…

  • Befriend Your Feelings

    Here is a quote from Lama Willa Miller, head of Natural Dharma Fellowship in Boston, and the Wonderwell Retreat Center in New Hampshire. The quote comes from a section in…