Buddhism and Spirituality

Find your peace in 2012

How are you doing with your New Year resolutions? Did you make any? Quit smoking, get fit, spend more time with the family. Lose weight, get out of debt, quit drinking. Get more creative, be more productive, set better goals or no goals, do what you love, make X number of sales, win that promotion. [...]

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Insults are gifts that we don’t have to accept

It’s been a long time since I realized that how people treat me is one thing, their thing. How I choose to react—or not—is another. My thing. The two are closely connected, of course, and sometimes seem almost indistinguishable. He gets me so mad. She drives me crazy. My boss drives me up a wall. [...]

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The Zen of scratching your ass

Your breathing slows, thoughts scatter into nonsense, and tension seeps out of your tired body. Finally. Sleep. You sigh and sink deeper into the pillow and turn your face a little to the side. Finally, you breathe, as you drift off. Someone’s knocking at the door. Or is it the window? A drip, drip, drip [...]

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You can’t be bad at meditation: here’s why

Four times today, as I browsed through blog comments and scanned Facebook posts, I saw comments like  “I am bad at meditating” or “I’m bad with meditation” or “I’m just no good at it.” It’s not the first time I’ve seen or heard things like that. I’ve also heard people say they’re “good” at meditating. [...]

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Breathe, you are alive: Thich Nhat Hanh

Peace is present right here and now, in ourselves and in everything we do and see. The question is whether or not we are in touch with it. ~Thich Nhat Hanh, Peace Is Every Step In 1991, fresh out of college, I discovered Thich Nhat Hanh on a bookshelf in the bookstore where I worked. [...]

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