How to Communicate Well in the Heat of the Moment

September 26, 2017

By Janet Mueller // I am always looking for good analogies to help people grow in their capacity to…

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Mindful Eating: Why Bother?

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September 26, 2017

By Marcella Friel // It’s so easy to believe that our struggles with food are our fault. It’s so…

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Advice for Setting New Year Intentions (Rather than Resolutions)

September 25, 2017

For the past several years, Shastri Jon Barbierri has come up to Shambhala Mountain Center to lead a group…

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Albert Flynn DeSilver on Writing as a Path to Awakening

August 30, 2017

Albert Flynn DeSilver is a well known poet, memoirist, novelist, and one of the foremost teachers of writing as…

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A Contemplative Approach to Viewing the Eclipse

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August 10, 2017

By Andrea Schweitzer, Ph.D. in astronomy // There has been a lot of news about the upcoming "Great American Solar…

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Reading As a Path to Awakening

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August 10, 2017

By Albert Flynn DeSilver // Here’s a funny question: What is reading? I mean really. The act of looking…

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Becoming

July 13, 2017

By Richard Rudis // Let’s imagine it’s approximately 2,600 years ago and you’re sitting by the bank of the…

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Living Fully, Loving Well—Reflections on the Awakened Heart

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July 13, 2017

By David Chernikoff I first became interested in death and dying in my early teens. It wasn’t a choice…

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On Being a Teacher

July 12, 2017

By Susan Piver // I just finished teaching two retreats at Dechen Choling Retreat Center in France, “The Open…

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Lama Rod Owens: Prayer, Grief, and Activism

June 27, 2017

This community dharma talk offered by Lama Rod Owens to the Radical Dharma Boston Collective explores the practices of…

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Compassionate Acceptance as a Path of Healing

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June 15, 2017

By Thomas Roberts // How often do we embark on our spiritual growth journeys with the well-meaning intention of…

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The Search for Comfort Zones

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June 15, 2017

By Orgyen Chowang Rinpoche With every blink of the eye, with every breath, we are trying to find comfort—some…

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