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Thank You: A Poem of Gratitude

Today, in my room, I closed my eyes again for sometime. I’ve been doing this regularly for awhile. Some call it meditation, some say it’s “nothing”.. I don’t have a preference. Today, I put aside my...

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Making Sense of Buddhist Moral Precepts

Taken from Jack Kornfield’s book “Teachings of 12 Buddhist Masters” Perhaps the most difficult aspect of the teachings to translate to Western culture with its heavy tradition of free personal...

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Kindness

Let us not mistake compassion for agreement At its best compassion is deep respect and understanding Let us not reduce it to big smiles and to an overly polite attitude Merely not wanting to rock the...

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V for Valmiki

Gateway to Sympathetic Joy Taken from “Cultivating Inner Peace” by Acharya Paul Fleischman A PERSON WHO HAS LEARNED the skill of sorrow paradoxically will be lightened by kinship and communion with all...

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A Personal Love Affair

I’ve only been meditating regularly for 2 years. Sometimes it feels like I’ve been doing it for so so long.. and other times every single sit is like the first time.. always and forever a beginner....

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Spiritual Bypassing

Friends, it’s been one year since I moved back to the city after spending 7 months at the center we have here in British Columbia, Canada. Predictably, the transition from the center to daily life...

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Eternal Masquerade

And the wheel of samsara keeps on rotating Through heartbreaks and joy, through endless exchanging You and I both through numerous role playing Appearing as one, appearing and deceiving When the whole...

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Dying to See You Smile

Sweetheart wipe away your tears Here I’ll share with you all my fears I’ve been seeking and I have found While the World went round and round This Mystery, this Creation is all too much Without your...

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