Connect with your Breath The breath is a powerful reminder of your anxiety-reducing connection with others, says Kamilah Majied. Though we tremble before uncertain futures / may we meet illness, death and adversity with strength / may we dance in the face of our...
I would rather go without food than without flowers. Sounds dramatic and it is. I recall a time years ago when I was desperate to touch the natural world. I was living in a third-floor walk-up in Queens, working at Burger King, and going to City University in...
‘Don't get caught up in unskilful mental materialism.’ Beopjeong Sunim
Life can be a complete ruckus and sometimes it will be one for so long that we can't see the end of it... People can betray us, and all of the pain can come crashing down at once... What can do person do then? Who can they rely on? Only themselves. In this life, we...
‘Reality and me are one. The trouble is that's one to many.’ Zen Graffiti
‘Those who follow the way are never without direction.’ Zen Graffiti
‘We can give time to the mind, really wanting to make it better and better. This is a kind of grasping, but there is nothing wrong in wanting to make life better, not in this dharma context. At least it is going in the direction of dharma.’ Geshe Tashi Tsering
‘As long as we don't clarify ourselves, we hear the teaching through the self, ego, then interpret the teaching in numerous different ways.’ Harada Sekkei Roshi
‘In the Heart Sutra, the word ‘not’ as in ‘not born, not dying’ and so on isn’t simply a negation. If there is difference, there is sameness.’ Harada Sekkei Roshi
Pema Chödrön nos enseña la práctica de pausar, una técnica sencilla que podemos utilizar en cualquier momento que necesitemos un descanso de nuestros patrones habituales. Nuestros hábitos son fuertes, por lo que se requiere cierta disciplina para salir de nuestro...