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The Fog of Grief

It rolls in like the fog creeping under the Golden Gate. It is the leaden, motherless, mantle of sorrow. The…

A Practice that Shifts You

If you feel stuck in your practice, as though your meditation is not creating a permanent shift away from your…

Beyond Our Little Minds

Practicing as Deity/Buddha Practicing deity gets us out of our narrow little minds and forever changes us. Viewing ourselves as a…

How Buddhist Practitioners Use Words

Part 2: Honesty Dharma Speech Part 2 Another way you can tell if others are putting the Buddha’s teachings into…

How Buddhist Practitioners Use Words

Part One: Harsh Speech How can you tell a Dharma practitioner—someone who puts the Buddha’s teachings into use—from someone who…

Gathering Circle

‘Gathering Circle’ —A Buddhist Practice The most common group activity participated in by practitioners of Vajrayana Buddhism is a  gathering…

Getting to the Root of Our Suffering

Garden Variety Depression and Anxiety can be helped by Mindfulness-Awareness Practice The Buddha, in the second of his famous Four…

Meeting my Lama and Practicing Universal Compassion.

Could Unequal Compassion have been the Roots of my Depression and Anxiety? For the last two blog posts I have…

The Situation is Completely Hopeless

How I Ended my Chronic Anxiety and Depression with Buddhist Practice Part 2 The most transformation teaching I received during…

Prison of Thoughts

How I Ended my Chronic Anxiety and Depression with Buddhist Practice Part I In my early thirties, after having spent…

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