In the time between the winter solstice and the first week in January, I retreated from the world to study. Starting the year like this, engaged with self-reflection and self-discovery helps… Read more »
Posts Categorized: Mind Body Spirit
Is It Normal to Cry During Meditation?
As someone who is easily moved, I can tell you crying is nothing to be ashamed of, especially during meditation. Crying can be a form of catharsis, and meditation may… Read more »
Does Meditation Work for Everyone?
According to the National Center for Complementary and Integrative Health, meditation can improve psychological balance and assist with the treatment of illnesses. Despite the unfortunate trend of obsessing over complicated… Read more »
What Is the Goal of Meditation?
In a prehistoric forest, maybe while gazing into a forest or noticing the movement of the stars, there must have been a moment when someone first wondered, what is this?… Read more »
How to Save Your Spirit in a Turbulent World
Reading time: 6 Minutes Using a traumatizing event as a life defining event can make you more resilient. I write you from the sixth week of social distancing in New… Read more »
3 Meditations on Truth & Imagination
Reading Time : Just over 7 minutes As people struggling to locate our coordinates in a new and uncertain world, we navigate between our natural reality on the one hand,… Read more »
COVID-19 Precautions
Reading Time: Just Under 2 minutes As a member of our Bodhi Heart community, I wanted to reach out to you with an update on COVID-19 and the steps we… Read more »
Attending to Time
Reading Time: Just over 7 minutes Live deeply, broadly, and grandly. Be spiritually ambitious. Engage with life. Act. Ask questions. Answer them. Test your answers . . . “Yes, all that might… Read more »
Is Meditation Selfish?
Reading time: 7 minutes We create a zone of silence that allows nature to speak to us—a zone in which we can perceive the subtle teachings of earth, wind, water,… Read more »
At Peace in the Nirvana Room
Reading time: Under 3 minutes Every temple requires three elements: the Master’s quarters, a Dharma Hall for the master’s lectures, and a Nirvana room for the sick and, if necessary, dying…. Read more »
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