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Each moment, life as it is, the only teacher: quotes from Joko Beck
Charlotte Joko Beck died yesterday, very peacefully, at the age of 94. She was a Zen teacher who made a major impact on American Buddhism. Here’s a link to her obituary, a note from her dharma heir...
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Being a Five, reading, writing, and what works
Part of my journey as a Five on the Enneagram has had to do with my attitude about information. As a child, I took to reading like a duck to water. I soon became an indiscriminate reader. Comic books,...
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When the teacher is the teaching: Tom Best.
I figure I spent a thousand hours with Tom Best between 2007 and April 21, 2012, three days before his death. I took NLP practitioner training as a student in Austin. Then evolutionary NLP in Dallas....
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The questions of the heart; seeking the sound of a normal heartbeat
I beg you, to have patience with everything unresolved in your heart and to try to love the questions themselves as if they were locked rooms or books written in a very foreign language. Don’t search...
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“The 5 rhythms are a contemporary shamanic Zen practice” ~ Gabrielle Roth
Okay, so science has recently showed us that dancers have genes for transcendence and social connection. (And if you don’t dance, maybe you have these genes too and don’t know it yet. And consider...
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Waking up quote
“Waking up to who you are requires letting go of who you imagine yourself to be.” ~ Alan Watts Filed under: sitting Tagged: Alan Watts, letting go, quote, waking up, wisdom
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Each moment, life as it is, the only teacher: quotes from Joko Beck
I posted this originally on June 16, 2011. Needing to remind myself of her wisdom, I thought you might want to (re)read her words and appreciate her wisdom too. ~~ Charlotte Joko Beck died yesterday,...
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Practical enlightenment workshop in September? Yes, please!
I am going to be attending a workshop September 28-29 in Austin, and I’d love for it to fill up. This workshop is for people who are interested in enlightenment (or maybe just deeper well-being),...
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How to live a more satisfying life
The best first step towards changing the way things are is to fully accept the way things are. Michael Giles has written a book called Action of Mind: Essential Steps Toward a Satisfying Life. Neatly...
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Note to self: remember this next time I get sick of myself
I will forget again how powerful this is. I will resist doing it, caught up in the whirl of thoughts. And I will get sick of myself again, and find my way back to this practice. Continue reading →
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What If?
What if our religion was each other? If our practice was our life? If prayer was our words? What if the Temple was the Earth? If forests were our church? If holy water – the rivers, lakes and ocean?...
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