Journey with me and share. . . I’ve downloaded Mindfuless: An Eight-Week Plan for Finding Peace in a Frantic World by Mark Williams, Danny Penman, and Jon Kabat-Zinn. I will be going to New Mexico for a retreat on Buddhism and Dying in April. I have been waiting for this retreat opportunity for a lifetime. [...]
Posts Tagged ‘Buddhism’
Come With Me. . .
Posted in Mindfulness & Buddhism, tagged Buddhism, Jon Kabat-Zinn, Mindfulness-based stress reduction on February 24, 2012 | 2 Comments »
Put Out Your Welcome Mat
Posted in Mindfulness & Buddhism, tagged mindfulness, health, Buddhism, medicine, Jon Kabat-Zinn, Mindfulness-based stress reduction, Buddhist on February 23, 2012 | 5 Comments »
“You change your relationship to the pain by opening up to it and paying attention to it. You ‘put out the welcome mat.’ Not because you’re masochistic, but because the pain is there. So you need to understand the nature of the experience and the possibilities for, as the doctors might put it, ’learning to live with [...]
Find some inner peace with quiet meditation
Posted in Mindfulness & Buddhism, tagged meditation, health, Thich Nhat Hanh, Zen, Buddhism, Religion & Spirituality, mindful eating, Kinhin on February 22, 2012 | 1 Comment »
Here is a 5-Minute meditation for you to check out. I love the idea of short meditation practices. They are so practical for today’s life. Taking time throughout the day 5 minutes here, 10 minutes there, another 5 before after dinner or before bedtime is better than no time at all. We all have [...]
The Four Boundless Qualities
Posted in BlogTalkRadio, Mindfulness & Buddhism, tagged breathing, Buddhism, compassion, coping, family, friends, healing, inspiration, Joan Halifax, meditation, Mettā, mindful, mindfulness, pain, peace, pema chodron, relationships, Religion & Spirituality, spirituality on February 21, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
Thanks so much for your kindness and generosity but most of all your patience. I’m new to Blog Talk Radio and am feeling my way as I go. I previously thought that this show had not taped, however, when I went into my archive tonight, I found it wait for me. As I was doing [...]
New Course — Thich Nhat Hanh
Posted in Mindfulness & Buddhism, tagged Buddhism, mindfulness, Religion & Spirituality, Thich Nhat Hanh on February 21, 2012 | 1 Comment »
Sounds True presents: Body and Mind are One with Thich Nhat Hanh This is great news as there is so much “On Demand” Dharma teaching right now with these kinds of courses, podcasts, audiobooks, etc. Check out my Blogroll for a few of my favorite podcasts. Their site states that you will learn the follow things [...]
Retreat at Home
Posted in Mindfulness & Buddhism, tagged breathing, Buddhism, chanting, compassion, healing, health, inspiration, meditation, Mettā, mindful, mindfulness, pema chodron, relationships, Religion & Spirituality, Religion and Spirituality, Retreats on February 20, 2012 | 2 Comments »
http://shop.shambhala.com/living-beautifully Another great way to spend a weekend in March. . . cost of access for the retreat $85.00, well worth a full weekend’s worth of teachings from Ani Pema. This retreat took place in October 2011 at the Omega Institute in NY. What a wonderful way to experience the teachings and the sangha at [...]
Final Winter Retreat Dharma Talk 2:30am EST — Thich Nhat Hanh
Posted in Mindfulness & Buddhism, tagged breathing, Buddhism, chanting, compassion, Dharma talk, meditation, PlumVillage, Religion & Spirituality, Religion and Spirituality, Thich Nhat Hanh, Zen on February 19, 2012 | 1 Comment »
The final Dharma talk of the Winter Retreat 2011-12 will start at 8:30 AM CET (2:30 AM EST) this morning. The talk will start right at that time, without sitting meditation. View the talk live, with Thay speaking in Vietnamese in the left earphone and English translation in the right earphone, at http://livestream.com/plumvillage Related articles [...]
View: 15-Minute Meditation
Posted in Mindfulness & Buddhism, tagged breathing, Buddhism, compassion, coping, health, Jon Kabat-Zinn, meditation, Mettā, mindful, pema chodron, PlumVillage, Ram Dass, relationships, Religion & Spirituality, Religion and Spirituality, Sharon Salzberg, spirituality, Tara Brach, Thich Nhat Hanh, Upaya Institute and Zen Center, Zen on February 18, 2012 | 4 Comments »
Enjoy this 15-minute meditation that I found on Youtube. I went searching for this because I have been spending a lot of time on the computer lately, doing various things from the blog, to school work, to my ”employment” work. I’ve been finding that I am multitasking all over the place. One of these days, I [...]
The Buddha on Love
Posted in Mindfulness & Buddhism, tagged Buddhism, Religion & Spirituality on February 18, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
Teach this triple truth to all: A generous heart, kind speech, and a life of service and compassion are the things which renew humanity. ~~ Buddha Related articles The Loving Buddha (thezindagilist.wordpress.com) Reality (sillyreflections.wordpress.com) Be a Light unto yourself: Zen Moments #6 (ritusthoughtcatcher.wordpress.com) The 14 Mindfulness Trainings (namasteconsultinginc.com) Signs of Spiritual Progress (chakralivingroomaz.com) Retreat ourselves in [...]
Meeting an Impasse
Posted in Mindfulness & Buddhism, tagged Alternative, breathing, Buddhism, end-of-life, Grief Loss and Bereavement, health, meditation, relationships, Religion and Spirituality, spirituality on February 11, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
Gentle Meditation Although we are not often taught this, the most skillful way through an impasse in meditation is to become aware of it and of what holds it together and keeps it running. To do this, you need to keep doing the meditation instructions that have gotten you to this point, but instead of [...]

