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  • Mindfulness Chocolate

    Consider, if you will, the quality of mindfulness, being fully relaxed and open to our experience in the present moment, and how that is so easily disturbed by tension created…

  • Mindfulness – Off the Cushion

    We need to understand how to engage with mindful awareness in our daily lives, not just during our sitting practice. In the written instructions for our Innate Compassion Training, Lama…

  • Living in the Moment

    Our Thanksgiving celebration with family is always a mixed blessing. We spend a lot of time on the day before preparing our house for a larger group of people and…

  • 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…

  • Intimacy

    This week’s words are from an article in Buddhadharma magazine by Lama Willa Miller, founder of Natural Dharma Fellowship. To disentangle a great tree from an invasive vine, you must…

  • Impermanence IV

    Carl Jung said “One does not become enlightened by imagining figures of light, but by making the darkness conscious.” Every time we welcome rather than push away what we have…

  • Ideal World

    This week’s words come from fellow Foundation for Active Compassion teacher, Terry Conrad, in his booklet, Fundamentals of Spiritual Practice. All of us experience moments of irritation, frustration, even anger.…

  • Handshake III

    As you know, we are working through the 5 points of Handshake (Compassionate Presence to Feelings) practice. Recall that the first two points were: Now we get to the heart…