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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Making America Basically Good Again: Merging Political and Contemplative View

March 2, 2016

Two days ago I heard a long time senator on NPR describe the current presidential election as the wildest…

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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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Mindfulness in Lila Yoga

March 1, 2016

We're thrilled to have the wonderfully skilled Yogacharya Erica Kaufman returning to DMC this June to lead Lila Yoga®…

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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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Cheerful Shambhala Day!

February 18, 2016

Last week we celebrated Shambhala Day — a holiday based on Losar (Tibetan New Year/Lunar New Year). It’s a…

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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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Understanding the Interplay Between Karma and Trauma

February 8, 2016

In a previous post, we shared the first part of an illuminating dialogue between Julie Flynn Badal and Dr.…

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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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