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Things I Learned: Sexual Predator
It seems the universe has chosen my last hour of sleep, between 4:30am and 5:30am, to send me various messages about insights into my life and practice. This has been going on for a while but it wasn’t...
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Stories/Koans/Parables: “This is very Good”
In a far away land lived a king renowned for his wisdom. The king was so wise he made sure to surround himself with the wisest advisors, and he made the wisest of those his most close and trusted...
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Stories/Koan/Parables: Mother’s Day
“Eshun was a nun at the monastery of Saijoi. The abbot of Saijoji wanted to send a message to the abbot of the great temple of Engakuji, which was known for it’s rough treatment of outsiders. None of...
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Things I Learned: You just live it
I was conducting a family session a few weeks ago, establishing the values that each individual held dearest and the values that defines them as a family. The exercise is designed to get everyone on...
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One Quote, One Card: Everything is Guiding
There have been a few times in my life where I would read the first line of a story, or hear the opening verse of a new song, and would need to immediately stop because I was not mentally...
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Father’s Day 2015 – A Personal Story/Koan/Parable
It wasn’t until I was 12 years old that I realized how fucked up it was for my biological father to be absent from my life. Up to that point I was doing the thing that kids do eerily well: adjusting to...
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Things I Learned: Compassion
Emelia Sam gives daily gems on “Life, love and liberation from a soul-centered perspective” over on 360 Soul. She has recently begun holding conversations with like-minded individuals on related...
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One Quote, One Card: Comforters
“God does not comfort us to make us comfortable, but to make us comforters.” — John Henry Jowett How appropriate! Zen Pencils has a wonderful cartoon “Make Good Art” in which the writer implores the...
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One Quote, One Card: Seeding Mistakes & Beautiful Stumbles
To make mistakes is human; to stumble is commonplace; to be able to laugh at yourself is maturity. — William Arthur Ward Acceptance vs Rejection Behaviors are like seeds — you reap what you sow — and...
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Stories/Koans/Parables: Turning Toward
Fear, Regret, Grief, Humiliation, Sadness, Loneliness, Heartbreak… Trungpa Rinpoche was traveling with his attendants to a monastery he’d never seen before. As they neared the gates, he saw a large...
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