Continuing from Spontaneous Creativity . . . Our hesitation to express ourselves fully and creatively in life comes from our conflicted emotions or mental pain. Basically, negative… Read More »The Daily Dharma – November 23, 2021
The Truth About the First Thanksgiving – The Wampanoag Perspective In school, most of us are taught that in 1621, member of the Mashpee Wampanoag… Read More »The Truth About the First Thanksgiving – The Wampanoag Perspective
Continuing from Spontaneous Creativity . . . I encourage you to explore and trust these ancient teachings. Follow them with an open heart and apply them whenever… Read More »The Daily Dharma – November 22, 2021
Continuing from Spontaneous Creativity . . . Again, the advice in meditation in relation to any emotional experience is: Leave it as it is. My teacher repeated… Read More »The Daily Dharma – November 21, 2021
Our emotional energy can derail us or be dynamic fuel for creative expression. Through meditation we can explore our emotions and give a spacious, luminous,… Read More »The Daily Dharma – November 20, 2021
Honoring Native Peoples on Thanksgiving Day For many of us, Thanksgiving is a time to reconnect with family and acknowledge the many blessings in our… Read More »Honoring Native Peoples on Thanksgiving Day
On the night of his enlightenment, the story goes, the Buddha was visited by the forces of Mara, the Evil One, who was determined to… Read More »The Daily Dharma – November 19, 2021
While the Buddha was in the south of Magadha, I travelled among the people of Kosala. One day I had accepted an invitation to travel… Read More »The Daily Dharma – November 18, 2021
Continuing from When You Greet Me I Bow . . . In Buddhist analysis, then, there is not a body. What there is, is form (rupa) – some… Read More »The Daily Dharma – November 17, 2021
The Buddhist teachings on the workings of the mind, called Abhidharma, teach us that there isn’t a body per se, just a variety of momentary mental… Read More »The Daily Dharma – November 16, 2021
