When Stories Hurt

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1 topic : 4 voices. This post was inspired by something Susan Piver wrote on twitter. “There is a way to write that solidifies your story and a way to write that liberates you from it.” The ensuing conversation was too wonderfully juicy to leave to 140 characters. Tweeting then and writing now are Susan [...]

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Testing the Benefits of Meditation… in the Emergency Room

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We read a lot about the benefits of meditation. But the true test may come in times of trauma. Here’s how meditation transformed a severe fall and a trip to the emergency room into an experience of mindful awareness.

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Develop Self Compassion: Meditation instructions for working with the breath

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Photography as Meditation: The Friday Flower. Sometimes just photos. Sometimes with writing. Appearing on Fridays. Sometimes it’s easier to have more compassion for others than we have for ourselves. We have feelings we think we shouldn’t have. We have prejudices we wish we didn’t have. We act in ways that disappoint or embarrass us. Instead [...]

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Do you ever do the opposite of what makes you happy?

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Photography as Meditation: The Friday Flower. Sometimes just photos. Sometimes with writing. Appearing on Fridays. Do you ever find yourself doing the opposite of what makes you happy? I don’t mean working when you wish you were on vacation or saving money by not going shopping. I mean continually making choices even when you know [...]

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Buddhist Women Who Blog

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Photography as Meditation: The Friday Photo. Sometimes just photos. Sometimes with writing. Appearing on Fridays. This week’s image is an abstract macro photograph of a water offering bowl on a Buddhist shrine. Back in December, I had the sweet honor of being included in Marguerite Manteau-Rao’s list of 15 Great Women Buddhist Blogs. She’s @minddeep [...]

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Shantideva’s Prayer

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Photography as Meditation: The Friday Flower. Sometimes just photos. Sometimes with writing. Appearing on Fridays. May all beings everywhere Plagued by sufferings of body and mind Obtain an ocean of happiness and joy By virtue of my merits. May no living creature suffer, Commit evil or ever fall ill. May no one be afraid or [...]

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In Your Body Is The Garden Of Flowers

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Photography as Meditation: The Friday Flower. Sometimes just photos. Sometimes with writing. Appearing on Fridays. Do not go to the garden of flowers!
 O friend! go not there;
 In your body is the garden of flowers.
 Take your seat on the thousand petals of the lotus, and there gaze on the infinite beauty. Kabir ~ [...]

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What’s your idea of the perfect Kindness Community?

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Some months ago I wrote about starting a Meditation Community. I still think it’s a great idea. There’s a genuine benefit to sharing our practices (whatever they may be), supporting, and motivating one another. But what I want to share with you at Luminous Heart is so much more than meditation in the way most [...]

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