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Meditation-As I Began To Love Myself

This week below the fold I am sharing a poem frequently attributed to Charlie Chaplin entitled, “As I Began to Love Myself.” I feel compelled to pre-respond to the complaint that always arises when...

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Meditation-Tonglen

I’m sorry. I am not even going try to offer anything of my own this evening, the past week has been...well it was the week that it was. Below the fold you will find a short Pema Chodron video in which...

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Meditation-More Pema

More Pema Chodron below the fold tonight folks, enjoy. :-)Good evening and welcome to Monday Group Meditation. We will be sitting from 8:00 to 10:30 PM Eastern Time. It is not necessary to sit for the...

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Meditation-Of Warps, Wefts and Candy Land

Who, among us, consciously chooses to be unhappy? And yet when we have no idea how our thinking directly influences our day to day experience of life, when we have no idea that we are not our thoughts,...

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Meditation-Seen Another Way

This week I ran across an item attributed to Tantric teacher Saraha, it read as follows:Those who believe everything is solid and real are stupid, like cattle, but those who believe everything is empty...

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Meditation-And Contemplative Neuro-Science

This week, below the fold, you will find a 16 minute video of Richard Davison, PhD, who is the founder of Center for Healthy Minds. Davison, a neuro-scientist, began using modern tools of measurement...

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Meditation...When...

We practice developing compassion, first, for ourselves. If we can be fearless in looking at ourselves, we can develop the clarity needed to see how we came to be so small, so petty, so arrogant, so...

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Meditation-A Reservoir of Trust

After recent events, perhaps it is time for a teaching on smiling at fear and developing a reservoir of trust in life. Below the fold you will find an 8 minute video of Pema Chodron speaking directly...

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Meditation-Seeing Our Basic Goodness

This evening, below the fold you will find a short video of Pema Chodron talking about seeing our basic goodness. We can never have too many reminders. I’m on the road this week, so it’s another week...

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Meditation-Pause, Breath and Open Your Heart

This week below the fold I am sharing an excerpt and link to an article entitled Pause, Breathe and Open Your Heart by Lyse Lauren on the website LEVEKUNST art of life.A link to the article appeared in...

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Meditation-Sarcasm And The Three Difficult Practices

We humans get stuck in emotional patterns where we automatically, without thinking, do the same thing over and over again. One of the things we can do to help ourselves is to commit to the Three...

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Meditation-Away From The Cushion

This week we are visited, via a wonderful quote, by someone who knows what he is talking about.:-)Good evening and welcome to Monday Group Meditation. We will be sitting from 8:00 to 10:30 PM Eastern...

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Meditation-Surrendered Activism Explained

In the past I have tried to explain surrender and surrendered activism, but so many of us are so attached to our anger and judgments we either cannot understand the idea, or perhaps some of us simply...

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Meditation-Where To Find Peace

Hello everyone, it’s been a really busy week and I am just now home from attending a Phowa with His Holiness Drikung Kyabgong. I am so grateful to have received this transmission and to have a practice...

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Meditation-No Regrets

This week I am sharing a 34 minute video of a talk given by His Holiness the Dalai Lama at Karuna Hospice in which he shares his thoughts about how to prepare for death. In it there is some really good...

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Meditation-Letting Go

This week we have a short oldie but goodie video of Adyashanti talking about letting go and opening our focus. Enjoy!:-)Good evening and welcome to Monday Group Meditation. We will be sitting from 8:00...

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Meditation-Not Giving Up On Ourselves, And Others

This week another Pema Chodron video, I selected it because it seems to hold really good advice for all of us here at DKos. In about 8 minutes it speaks to those with tender, easily hurt hearts. It...

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Meditation-The Joy Of Non-Attachment

People frequently mistake the idea of detachment is simply being passive towards everything, but it is actually quite the opposite. In years past I’ve expended many words trying to describe how the...

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Meditation-Addicted To Thought

In the eleven minute video below Eckhart Tolle says that people are addicted to thought. Quite humorously, he compares the mind’s strategy to his dog as it is wandering around the yard and suddenly...

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Meditation-Mind The Gap

This week we have another “oldy but goody” video of Adyashanti encouraging us to let go of our egoic consciousness. :-)Good evening and welcome to Monday Group Meditation. We will be sitting from 8:00...

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Meditation-With White Tara

This evening we have a video of Gelek Rimpoche leading a guided White Tara meditation. The video is about 30 minutes long, and I hope that you will want to do the meditation, if not this evening then...

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Meditation-Something Different

And now for something completely different. This evening below the fold all you will find is a photo. It isn’t a particularly attractive or beautiful image, that isn’t the point. Just be aware of what...

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Miksang Photography-A Personal Practice

Miksang is a particular form of contemplative photography, which arose out of the teachings of Buddhist teacher Chogyam Trungpa Rimpoche, which is photographed according to its own set of rules. There...

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Meditation-The Courage To Love And Be Loved

"Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that."~Martin Luther King Jr.  Good evening and welcome to Monday Group Meditation. We will be...

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Meditation-The Power To Stay

This evening we have a short (less than 5 minutes) video from Pema Chodron that is the first in a series of 5 short videos entitled “Getting Unstuck-Breaking Your Habitual Patterns.” In this particular...

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Miksang Photography, Seeing The World As It Is

In my previous post I gave a brief introduction to the practice of Miksang Photography. In the comment section one person accused me of “photoshopping” the photos I shared in the diary, so I thought I...

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Meditation-The Courage To Live

We seem to have a mistaken idea regarding just what courage is in our culture. Many people seem to think it means to stand up and fight. Sometimes courage does require us to do just that. However when...

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Meditation-Finding Our Way Into This Infinite Moment

Two weeks ago tonight I posted a diary with a short Pema Chodron video about learning to stay. In the time since I’ve learned something that I would like to share with you. Below our regular...

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Meditation-Transcending Duality

In this relative world we continually face endless pairs of opposites: right and wrong, light and dark, positive and negative, abundance and scarcity, careful and careless, all and none, good and evil,...

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Meditation-More Than Our Mistakes

This evening I’m stepping aside to let Francis Bennett start us off below the thin grey line. :-)Good evening and welcome to Monday Group Meditation. We will be sitting from 8:00 to 10:30 PM Eastern...

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Meditation-Our Deepest Happiness

My apologies to the group, busy-ness is keeping me from having the time to gather thoughts to share. Fortunately this will only continue for a few more weeks...aaaah...impermanence! :-) So this evening...

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Meditation-What Do We Need To Be Happy?

This evening, one more time, a quote from Sharon Salzberg to start us off. :-)Good evening and welcome to Monday Group Meditation. We will be sitting from 8:00 to 10:30 PM Eastern Time. It is not...

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Meditation-Onward

This week it was my firm intention to write and share something with the group...and then my fingers were shut in a door. It was very lucky, even though my finger tips were rather flattened it seems...

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Meditation-What Enlightenment Isn't

There is so much talk these days in spiritual communities about what enlightenment is. It is interesting to me that the Buddha didn’t speak in terms of what enlightenment is, but what it isn’t.Good...

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Meditation-Reaching Out For Support

So many times people have expressed frustration over a lack of support in their spiritual paths due to not having living teachers available near them. It has been my experience that support beyond my...

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Meditation-Right Here, Right Now

Just this week I was reminded how paying attention to our senses gives our mind a rest. For some time I have been wary of mindfulness practice, because the mind can be literally trained to be on a kind...

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Meditation-Being Space

This week we have a short Adyashanti video. Enjoy. :-)Good evening and welcome to Monday Group Meditation. We will be sitting from 8:00 to 10:30 PM Eastern Time. It is not necessary to sit for the...

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Meditation-This Ripe Time

This week we have a short video from Pema Chodron instructing us how difficult times can be ripe with potential for becoming enlightened.Good evening and welcome to Monday Group Meditation. We will be...

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Meditation-Loving Kindness Practice

In the Tibetan Buddhist tradition the name for loving kindness is Maitri. This evening I am sharing a Pema Chodron audio teaching in which she gives a wonderful teaching on loving kindness, including...

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Meditation-Loving Kindness For Skeptics

This week it’s Loving Kindness again. Below the fold you’ll find a 6 minute video discussion with Sharon Salzberg by a practitioner who initially thought Loving Kindness practice was...let’s just say...

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Meditation-The Attitude Of Gratitude

The general zeitgeist during this election campaign is ugly. People are stressed, angry and frustrated.  In a response to that, the last few weeks I’ve been sharing videos on Loving Kindness practice,...

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Meditation-Mind Training With Haiku

For the last few weeks as I have been experiencing my own stress related to this election, I’ve been experimenting with practices in an attempt to find quick, easy ways to release my attachment to...

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Meditation-We Rise In Compassion

Everyone is feeling unsettled. We can start, right now, exactly where we are and openly admit our fears, our disillusionment, what ever it is we are feeling. Let the feelings come un-resisted, so they...

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Meditation-Post-Election Teachings

Since the election there has been a flood of wisdom shared on social media by many, many teachers. This evening I will be sharing some of what I considered the best of the best.Good evening and welcome...

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Meditation-Working With Anxiety

This evening to start us off we have an 8.5 minute Eckhart Tolle video about how to work with fear generated negative emotions gently and with humor...something most of us can probably all make good...

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Meditation-This Is Personal

Back in December of 2013 when I first started Monday Evening Meditation, I knew then that I would re-evaluate whether or not to continue hosting meditations after the 2016 election. It has been a...

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Meditation-The Dance Of Darkness And Light

These days when I even think of reading or watching the news, the muscles in my solar plexus clench in fear. It doesn’t make me turn away in avoidance, but it is clearly a marker regarding my...

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Meditation-Love And Acceptance

Since we are soon coming to the close of our Monday evenings together, I’ve been thinking about just what I want to put on the table for the closing sessions of our three years meditating together....

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Meditation-Our Last Monday Night Dance

For our final Monday evening together I have something special to share. The other day a slip of paper rose to the surface of the little pile of scraps of paper on my computer desk. It was something a...

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An Offering to the Community

Like so many others I am horrified by what I see happening. For the last few days I have been wanting to strike out in anger and horror at the abomination we all seeing taking place. Anger can  fuel...

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