"be fearless"
August 24, 2007 | Leave a replyFrom this month’s Fitness Magazine (input from 11 women, including moi-self) BE FEARLESS
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home from meditation retreat
August 18, 2007 | Leave a replyThere is no way to describe the magic that happens when 100 or so people work at studying their own minds from 7am to 9pm. Our retreat was a combination of practice and study. We heard amazing, incredible, generous, inspiring talks from our teacher, Sakyong Mipham Rinpoche. The students were in love with the teacher and it seemed mutual. During... READ MORE
then they wrote an article
August 18, 2007 | Leave a replyand put a picture of me at the top. i’m starting to feel very happy.
boston globe review
August 18, 2007 | 2 CommentsThis is the first time i’ve ever received a real review. It was very cool and totally unexpected. I got a phone call while i was on the bus up to meditation retreat, telling me about it. I would have felt so awful if it was a bad review, but it was really good. thank you thank you thank you.
up the mountain
July 22, 2007 | 1 CommentGetting ready to leave Boulder and drive several hours north to Shambhala Mountain Center. Will be on meditation retreat until Aug 2. I wish it was longer. Very much so. I have enough clothes and snacks to last several months, that’s for sure. It feels like such a departure from everything ordinary that I try to soothe myself with outfit... READ MORE
going on retreat
July 19, 2007 | Leave a replywill be away july 22-aug 1 at shambhala mountain center. will be on meditation retreat with my teacher, sakyong mipham rinpoche. i’m so ridiculously excited and happy. may try to blog from there, but only intermittently if at all. it sounds crazy to say that involving yourself in spiritual practice from 7a to 9p every day for a few weeks... READ MORE
gtd and spiritual practice
July 2, 2007 | 1 CommentGTD is an amazing system for multi-leveled personal organization. There are three things I love about it: It’s enormously intelligent It shamelessly satisfies the inner geek It produces spiritual benefits It’s this last one that is so interesting. The system brings a sense of order, pleasure, and quietude– the intelligence that famously comes forth from disciplined use of GTD. This... READ MORE
business of spirituality
July 1, 2007 | Leave a replyWrote this for The Worst Horse, a great, excellent site where dharma meets pop and vice versa: Skillfully Savvy: Susan Piver’s 8 Points for Selling the Dharma Without Selling It Out We who work in the world of spirituality (or want to bring spirituality into the world of work) often think that if you focus too much on the quality... READ MORE
compromise, shmompromise
June 22, 2007 | 3 Comments“Relationships take compromise.” Is there any piece of relationship advice more ubiquitous than this? Personally, the first time I heard it, I hoped it wasn’t true. It sounded like a grim reality, one where I’d have to sacrifice what I wanted and find some way to do what the other person wanted even though it was stupid. And plus I’d... READ MORE
fearlessness
June 21, 2007 | Leave a replyChogyam Trungpa Rinpoche, from “Conquering Fear” (Based on a seminar conducted in 1979 for teachers in Shambhala Training, a series of weekend programs on meditation and the view of warriorship): The starting point on the path of fearlessness is the discovery of fear. We find ourselves fearful, frightened, even petrified by circumstances. This ubiquitous nervousness provides us with a stepping... READ MORE
9 lies we tell without knowing they're lies
June 20, 2007 | 1 Commentpredictable self-deceptions their consequences and antidotes there are 9 of each I am right. Everyone else wrong. I trust that things are righter than I can ever know. I am needed. So you better treat me right. I give without agenda. I am important. I will overwhelm you with my credentials. I have no need to spread propaganda about myself.... READ MORE
108 chances
June 14, 2007 | Leave a replymemphis slim at antone’s in austin, tx, 1986-ish (mel brown under the hat behind him, sitting at the b-3) Buddhists say that in every moment there are 108 opportunities to wake up fully and completely, to transcend the sorrows of this world and attain bliss without end. You might find your moment in the sunset or the blossoming of a... READ MORE
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