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Archive for August, 2011
Practice: “Fresh Eyes”- The Art of Noticing
Friday, August 12th, 2011A “beginner’s mind” and seeing with “fresh eyes” is integral to the art of noticing. There are many formal and informal ways we can practice to cultivate this skill- and to help tune our present moment awareness into seeing our direct experience with renewed and curious perspective. Allow yourself here and now a few minutes […]
Awakening
Thursday, August 11th, 2011Love is free of attachment and condition. It just is… Sit, smile & be happy.
Meditation for Everybody?
Wednesday, August 10th, 2011There are some 20 million Americans meditating. ABC News’s Dan Harris offers commentary on the why and how of it all. Meditation, he reports in a new ABC News’s video segment, “is now being used by the Marines, by corporate executives from General Mills to Target to Google, by students in classrooms all over America, and […]
Awakening
Wednesday, August 10th, 2011Our mindful intelligence of impermanence illuminates the impossibility in attaching to all that changes. Sit, smile & be happy.
Awakening
Tuesday, August 9th, 2011When we see our cravings or yearnings for what they are- we don’t necessarily give them up, but we are less apt to be enslaved by them. Sit, smile & be happy.
Awakening
Monday, August 8th, 2011Constant yearning- chasing and yearning- a repetitive & exhausting cycle where fulfillment may wear the guise of suffering. Sit, smile & be happy.
Awakening
Sunday, August 7th, 2011Awareness is colored by the arisings of the moment. Sit, smile & be happy.
Awakening
Saturday, August 6th, 2011Our awareness can be compared metaphorically with the sky- open & spacious- allowing clouds (i.e. mind states) to simply come and go in varying forms- but through them all- always remaining the clear, “pure” canvas there to receive and reflect what is. Sit, smile & be happy.
Babies & Empathy: “Roots of Empathy”
Friday, August 5th, 2011Roots of Empathy is a classroom-based program for children in kindergarten through grade eight. Aiming to build more caring, peaceful, and civil societies by raising levels of empathy in children, the program brings babies into classrooms to help teach students emotional literacy. After starting as a pilot program with 150 children in Toronto, Canada 15 […]
Awakening
Friday, August 5th, 2011As guests in the house of our consciousness- the open invitation to our mind states in the here and now- sets the stage for peaceful and friendly coexistence. Sit, smile & be happy.