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Video: What Enlightenment Is NOT…
“Enlightenment is not an experience. Rather it’s living from a truth that goes past any story any of us might have about what truth might be.”
Video: Dealing With Guilt
Video: Getting on the Other Side of Hurt
How is it possible to meet the continual challenges we face from a place of peace?
Quick Dharma: Intimacy
Quick Vid: Truly Stopping
Awareness Is Not Thought
Community Opportunity
Michael will be presenting with our friends at the Lafayette-Orinda Presbyterian Church on this lecture series, on 3/28/19 from 6:30 to 9:30pm. Care to join? ___ Life Worth Living Thursday evenings, March 21 to May 9, 6:30-9:30 (excluding April 18) and all-day...
Opinion | You Should Meditate Every Day – The New York Times
Great read... The best way I can describe the effect is to liken it to a software upgrade for my brain — an update designed to guard against the terrible way the online world takes over your time and your mind. Source: Opinion | You Should Meditate Every Day - The New...
“Stop Assuming that Everything You Feel or Think Is Right”—An Interview with Robert Greene – Quillette
I enjoyed this brief Quillette interview with Robert Greene. It both contextualizes much of what comes up in Sangha discussions. Getting over "ourselves" is serious business. But I write this with a smile on my face. Question, question, question. Don’t assume that the...
Enlightenments, Not Enlightenment – Tricycle: The Buddhist Review
I enjoyed Jack Kornfield's approach, relating to the topic of interpreting "enlightenment." I would also add that what is available at every level, and at the core of every interpretation, is the simple experience of awareness. If our practice leads us here, so much...