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How Generosity Makes You Happy

How Generosity Makes You Happy

How Generous are You? By SivanaSpirit | Jennifer Lance Take a moment and reflect: Where in your life do you feel generous? Where in your life could you be more giving? We all know the feeling of excitement around giving…

The aspirations of the Bodhisattva

The aspirations of the Bodhisattva

May I avert the pain of hunger and thirst with showers of food and drink. May I become both drink and food for the immediate aeons of famine. May I be inexhaustible treasure for impoverished beings. May I wait upon…

Desire is the Devil

Desire is the Devil

Walking on the purple sand of Pheifer Beach,  I noticed an old man building stone pagodas. There are thousands of them in this secret cove, I’ve built a few on my previous visits and from the looks of it so…

I have been to the mountain top.

I have been to the mountain top.

 Dr. Kings last speech.  _/\_  Three Steps, One Bow. More? Letter from Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. to the Nobel Peace Prize committee recommending the “apostle of peace” Thich Nhat Hanh: What does an Atheist, a Monk, a Christian and…

For what it’s worth…. it’s never too late, or in my case too early, to be whoever you want to be.

For what it’s worth…. it’s never too late, or in my case too early, to be whoever you want to be.

For what it’s worth…. it’s never too late, or in my case too early, to be whoever you want to be. There’s no time limit. Start whenever you want. You can change or stay the same. There are no rules…

We can’t hide in our highness any more than we’ve hidden in our unworthiness.

We can’t hide in our highness any more than we’ve hidden in our unworthiness.

“There is a story about an old Zen monk who was dying, who had finished everything and was about to get off the wheel. He was just floating away, free and in his pure Buddha-mind, when a thought passed by…

As we left the monastery…

As we left the monastery…

I have finally realized, often the road and experience away from something is as beautiful as the journey to it. See for yourself, click below and turn up your volume: Tyler and Bhante leaving the monastery in Big Sur More?…

What it’s like to be The Watcher, To stand and Bear Witness to the unknown:

What it’s like to be The Watcher, To stand and Bear Witness to the unknown:

I recently posted an article by Ram Dass HERE that stirred up some emotion.  Seems like many of us really connected with the same line:  “So it is that we must weather that dark time, the period of transformation when…

Loss of Meaning: when what is familiar has been taken away and the new richness is not yet ours

Loss of Meaning: when what is familiar has been taken away and the new richness is not yet ours

A long term favorite wisdom teacher for me, Ram Dass, has this way of speaking directly to me.  The trouble is, most everybody who loves and follows him feels the same way. Universal principles and common experiences seem to penetrate…

BE YOUR POSTS.

BE YOUR POSTS.

Social Media is a funny thing.  This ability to see inside each other in a whole new way is altering us in ways I suspect we can’t even yet conceive of. When it comes to spirituality, religion and wisdom of…