Relationship as Spiritual Path: Couples Retreat Master Ben Cohen

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March 3, 2016

  Intimate relationships are both an opportunity and a challenge to our capacity for love and vulnerability.  Once we…

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Radical Self Healing: A Conversation with Charley Cropley, N.D.

March 2, 2016

According to Charley Cropley, N.D., bodily sickness, like all suffering, has real, discoverable causes. The cause is not cancer,…

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Watch: Chapman University at SMC

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March 2, 2016

This January, a group of students from Chapman University, a liberal arts school in southern California, visited Shambhala Mountain…

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Kay Peterson Discusses Mindful Hiking, Nature, and Meditation

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March 2, 2016

Like trees in the forest or fish in the sea, we have an innate ability to live in greater…

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Too Much on Your Plate? Here’s Advice from a Mindfulness Teacher

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February 24, 2016

I hope that your plates are full today -- but not too full -- and that you're enjoying every…

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Four Noble Truths for the Age of Natural Consequences / Great Turning

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February 24, 2016

--- By Bez Living as we do in an epoch where the entire span of recorded history is inevitably…

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Thought-forms: Seeding a New Reality

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February 8, 2016

'--- by Bez Anyone who’s ever done a Zen ‘practice period’, an occasion to intensify engagement with Buddhist principles,…

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Lodro Rinzler Discusses Daily Meditation and Retreat

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February 8, 2016

If you are reading this, you are most likely not in a cave somewhere in the Himalayas, without distraction,…

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Setting an Aspiration (Rather than a “Resolution”) for 2016

December 23, 2015

Do you have any New Year resolutions in mind? Any big changes you'd like to see happen in 2016?…

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Stop Cleaning Your Plate: 5 Steps to More Mindful Eating

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December 10, 2015

By Marcella Friel I just came home from lunch with a friend, where I ordered Caesar salad with chicken.…

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Lama Tsultrim Allione Discusses the “Sacred Feminine” (Video/Audio)

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October 5, 2015

It is a widely-shared sentiment in this day and age that the world is somehow out of balance. In…

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