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Cleaning Up Is Practice

August 17, 2026   |   Leave a reply

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Hello Wonderful Open Heart Project, One of the most important spiritual practices I know is this: clean up after yourself. Not because you should be more organized or more virtuous. Because every unfinished mess takes your attention. We can clean up physically by caring for the spaces we live in, emotionally by apologizing when we’ve caused harm or addressing what... READ MORE

Learning is Remembering: The Outer, Inner, and Secret Teachers

August 10, 2026   |   4 Comments

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Hello Wonderful Open Heart Project, How do you find a teacher? It’s a question I hear often, and the answer is more nuanced than you might think. Every true teacher appears in three ways. There is the outer teacher, the person who offers the teachings. There is the inner teacher, the part of you that recognizes something as true. And... READ MORE

Meditation: An Act of Rebellion

August 3, 2026   |   5 Comments

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Hello Wonderful Open Heart Project, It’s no secret that many forces are competing for your attention, especially online. Some are noble and righteous. Some are not.  Trying to track it all is…exhausting. The need for boundaries for our hearts and minds has never been more important. We must preserve our energy so that we can continue to care. Meditation helps... READ MORE

Info Session on July 22 for 30 Days of Dharma

July 23, 2026   |   1 Comment

Thank you to all who registered for the info session on the 30 Days of Dharma program. If you have any questions, email us. Just for your awareness, we have 2 spots left in this new program. I hope to see you there. Love, Susan

What do Buddhists mean when they talk about emptiness?

July 20, 2026   |   3 Comments

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Hello, wonderful Open Heart Project meditator. Before we sit today, I want to share with you a few thoughts about a concept famously associated with Buddhism: emptiness. It’s easy to think this means something like null or devoid of meaning or value. It doesn’t! Have a listen for more on the beauty and power of true emptiness. With love, Susan... READ MORE

The time my meditation practice made me laugh out loud

July 6, 2026   |   3 Comments

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Hello, wonderful Open Heart Project meditator. This week’s email is a chance to meditate together once again. We just moved to a new house and this is my first video from a brand new place. It was exciting to feel connected to you here. Before we sit, I share an experience I had during a recent meditation practice. Instruction was... READ MORE

Feelings are not problems, they are breadcrumbs to the truth

June 29, 2026   |   3 Comments

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Hello Wonderful Open Heart Project, There is a great deal happening in the world that can leave us angry, heartbroken, and overwhelmed. Meditation is not about getting rid of those feelings. It is about learning to work with them without hardening our hearts or losing touch with our shared humanity. One of the most important lessons of practice is to... READ MORE

Inexplicable Magic

June 22, 2026   |   Leave a reply

Hello, Open Heart Project. Wanted to pop in to let you know I have a new book, Inexplicable Magic: Meditation for Mystics. It came out a few weeks ago and  was written to explore meditation practice as a spiritual practice.  The book outlines seven principles for keeping your practice in the realm of the spiritual rather than some kind of strategy... READ MORE

Info Session on Inexplicable Magic, June 11, 2026

June 12, 2026   |   Leave a reply

Thank you for joining me and Crystal for this info session on my new book and the upcoming program. You can purchase or learn more about Inexplicable Magic: Meditation for Mystics here. May it be of benefit to your practice. There’s still a little time to sign up for the Seven Days of Inexplicable Magic program here. We hope to... READ MORE

Heartbreak is a Gateway

June 8, 2026   |   Leave a reply

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Hello, wonderful Open Heart Project. I hope you are finding joy and ease as much as possible. Before today’s sit, I continue sharing key points from my new book, Inexplicable Magic: Meditation for Mystics. It describes 7 principles of spiritual practice.The first point was We Engage in Daily Ritual. The second was We Live as Mystics (Hiding in Plain Sight).... READ MORE

The unmeasurable results of meditation practice

May 25, 2026   |   5 Comments

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Hello, wonderful Open Heart Project. I hope you are finding moments of ease and steadiness wherever you are. Before today’s sit, I continue our conversation about some of the less obvious but deeply felt impacts of meditation practice. Last week we talked about ritual and the way it reminds us that practice is not only about self-improvement. This week I... READ MORE

There’s more to meditation than feeling better

May 11, 2026   |   Leave a reply

Hello Wonderful Open Heart Project, I heard something the other day in the morning meditation at The Open Heart Project sangha: a thoughtful, well-done study confirms that meditation improves your brain and can make you happier. That’s meaningful and encouraging. It also reminded me that there’s another kind of understanding of meditation, one that comes from thousands of years of... READ MORE

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