By Ron Forster illustration by Brother Phap Ban Look with loving kindness, a gatha I said to myself daily, came to mind as I walked from the parking lot to my office at Hewlett-Packard. It was Monday morning in April 2004. I felt the ease of having been at Deer…
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Parenting, Children, and Mindfulness
A Wonderfully Rich Practice By Bud Reiter-Lavery Few of the local Sangha members have young children. I have two neighbors with children under the age of three who used to do formal sitting meditation alone or in groups, but haven’t done so since the birth of their children. Similarly, I…
Cherishing Each Day
By Howard Weamer In 1992 my wife and I began raising Yeti, our first Canine Companion puppy. These dogs assist physically challenged companions by learning specialized skills like turning lights on and off, fetching objects by name, alerting the person to sounds in their home, etc. Our job was to present CCI with an 18-month-old…
Raspberries as Spiritual Guide
By Rose Kramer The window of worldly function keeps inching downward as Parkinson's Disease follows its habitual path. "Progressing" is what it is called in the literature. Initially I often find myself hard put to apply the term "progress" to the slow but steady movement down a slippery slope. Like a refugee fleeing a war…
Wake Up Spirit
By Brian Kimmel photo by Robert Harrison What is Wake Up Spirit? The intention to “wake up” beyond our usual notions of ourselves and our environment, to enter deeply into meditation and move out into the world, to celebrate and share our gifts with collective awareness, inclusion, and fun. It…
Fertile Ground
Indonesia Teaching Tour By Brother Phap Lai photo by Deny Hermawan Thay and the Sangha touched down in Jakarta, the capital of Indonesia, on September 27, 2010, having just said a wistful goodbye to our hosts in Malaysia, where we enjoyed a successful two weeks offering retreats and public talks.…
Being Home
By Susan O’Leary Ours is an old house in the heart of a midwestern American city. This is where we daily breathe (not always in mindfulness), where we daily walk, where we daily sit. This is where our practice starts in the morning and ends at night. We do not…
Dharma Talk: The Art of Living
Many years ago, a young man named Jim Forest asked me to teach him about the practice of mindfulness. But when I offered him some tangerines, he continued telling me about the many projects he was involved in — his work for peace, social justice, and so on. He was…
Creating Villages of Peace
Summer Camp in Texas By Terry Masters One day at my summer camp for gifted children, MasterSchool, the children created different villages from around the world. Using their imaginations and whatever materials they could find around the ranch, they built villages in Mexico, India, Israel, France, and Japan. In France, in…
Cultivating Balance
Reflections from a Retreat with Law Professionals By Leslie Rawls, Jeanne Anselmo, and Valerie Brown photo by Nicole Dunn What do you get when you bring together sixty lawyers for a weekend mindfulness retreat? LAW – Love in Action With compassion. Our June 2012 law retreat, “Cultivating Balance,” arose from…