Ideas & Insights

Feelings with meditation and yoga

The long term health benefits of meditation and yoga are known, namely greater happiness, lower blood pressure, and less stress. What is lesser known is...

Bags

It is exhausting work putting a person's life into bags, especially if it is someone close to you. In the last 20 months, there has...

It’s just a dress

Today I am wearing the dress I wore to my mother's funeral. A good friend is getting married and it just so happens its the...

How to do “Metta” or Loving Kindness Meditation

Loving kindness meditation or "Metta" is a traditional Buddhist prayer that wishes benevolence and good wishes toward oneself and another. It is not a religious...

We cannot sow seeds with clenched fists. To sow we must open our fists.

We cannot sow seeds with clenched fists. To sow we must open our fists. "No podemos sembrar con los puños cerrados. Para sembrar, hay que...

Surrender 3

Day 3 of Surrender Sadhana : Today marks the anniversary of the last combat troops to leave Vietnam in 1973. It did not mean the...

Manage Stress Anywhere, Anytime

Life happens. And depending on the situation, there may be nothing we can do about it in the moment. All of a sudden, hearts are racing,...

River Bat

I love the river. Its flow. Its constancy. It is here that I find my home. It is here that I rest. There is nothing...