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Discipline: The Paramita of Steadiness and Joy

December 1, 2025   |   1 Comment

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Hello wonderful Open Heart Project, I’m writing to share something I believe deeply: the second of the transcendent actions — the paramita of discipline — isn’t a matter of rigid self-control. It is a source of clarity, spaciousness, and genuine joy. Practiced well, discipline becomes the structure that supports our freedom. It’s also a perfect preparation for the new year.... READ MORE

Preparing for 2026: Starting with Generosity

November 24, 2025   |   Leave a reply

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Hello, wonderful Open Heart Project. This week, we’re revisiting the first of the six paramitas — generosity. I originally recorded this teaching some time ago, but it feels especially relevant now, as we move toward the end of the year. Generosity is not only about giving material things; it’s about offering our attention, our patience, and our willingness to show... READ MORE

Is this the most important Buddhist teaching for our time?

November 17, 2025   |   6 Comments

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Hello Open Heart Project. I hope you are well and finding sources of joy, big, small, in-between. In this week’s video, I share some thoughts about what may be the most important spiritual teaching for our time. I’m pretty sure I’m not exaggerating. Have a listen and see what you think! Love, Susan

Let’s just meditate

November 10, 2025   |   4 Comments

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I hope you are well and finding sources of joy, big and/or small. I thought it might be useful to revisit some of the basics about our meditation practice. However, these basics are not basic at all. They point out the path to wisdom, insight, and creative inspiration. The only thing we have to do is let go of ambition…... READ MORE

Secret Magic: Seeing the Sacred in Everything

October 27, 2025   |   Leave a reply

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Dear Open Heart Project. Over the past 2 weeks, we’ve been revisiting a series I recorded a few years ago about outer, inner, and secret magic. It still feels relevant in these complicated times. In that talk, I suggested that magic isn’t something far away or mystical. It arises right here—in the way we care for our surroundings, the gentleness we... READ MORE

For When Your Mind Wanders (It Will and It’s Part of the Practice)

October 20, 2025   |   Leave a reply

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Hello wonderful Open Heart Project, This is the second video in a series I created a few years back. You can (but you don’t have to) check out what we talked about last week here. I’ve felt the wisdom of this series more deeply lately. In hard times, the invitation in this talk is always relevant. And so that’s why... READ MORE

When life gets hard, what if that’s where the magic begins?

October 13, 2025   |   2 Comments

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Dear Open Heart Project, I recorded a short video series a few years ago about how real magic is never separate from our hardest emotions — fear, grief, confusion. Magic doesn’t distract us from pain; it deepens our connection to it, and through that, something mysterious can begin to shift. I’ve been thinking about this ever since, and now I’m offering... READ MORE

Info Session Recording: Inexplicable Magic, a 4-week course

October 8, 2025   |   2 Comments

Thank you so much for signing up and joining me for this conversation. I’m truly grateful you took time from your life, your day, your world to explore something so vital—what it means to work with your own mind in the midst of all that’s happening around (and within) us. Whether you were able to attend live or are watching... READ MORE

The time I took drugs and had a lasting spiritual insight

October 6, 2025   |   7 Comments

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I hope you are well and finding sources of joy, big and/or small. Yes, your meditation teacher got high. A LONG TIME AGO! But it was awesome and provided my first true spiritual insight.  Don’t do what I did!! Drugs are not necessary but I was a youngster and it happened and so I’m sharing this crazy story with you.... READ MORE

A personal story about my spiritual journey

September 22, 2025   |   22 Comments

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I hope you are well during this difficult time. So much sorrow. Did you know I’ve been sending these free meditation emails for more than TEN YEARS?! I hope to continue to do so for another ten. In the meantime, I thought it might be a good idea to let you in on a bit more about my own spiritual... READ MORE

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