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You’re on Your Own. ~ Jacquelyn O’Brien
by elephantjournal.com on Feb 10, 2012
I’ve been giving some thought to gurus, teachers and our relationships with them. I’ve been thinking about our tendency to give away our power. To invest heavily in someone else seems to reduce our ability to invest in ourselves.584 views
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Remember your New Years’ Resolutions? No? Here are the Buddha’s all 12 (apocryphal) ways to fix that.
by Ricardo das Neves on Feb 10, 2012
My guess is if the Buddha did New Years’ Resolutions, the Four Noble Truths would’ve looked like this: 1. In life there is time-wasting 2. The origin of time-wasting is unconsciousness 3. To stop being unconscious you must know what you want and what you don’t want (duh!) 4. To know what you want and what you don’t want, walk the noble twelvefold path....127 views
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The Loneliness of Meditation. ~ Sheila Singh
by elephantjournal.com on Feb 9, 2012
After more than six months of consistent practice, my meditation has become an almost lonely place of self observation. I watch as various thoughts fire off, one at a time. And each time I return back to my breath. Trying not to judge, to anticipate, to linger. Just returning to the breath.442 views
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Quote of the Day: How to Change the World in 260 Words.
by Benjamin Riggs on Feb 9, 2012
Our created nature as human beings is like a blueprint467 views
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Looking for John Friend: A True Tiny Story from The Big Picture Book.
by Hilary Lindsay on Feb 8, 2012
Here in the vast expanse of the world, of the oceans of the sky that are a beacon over this airy place where Anusara will or will not live, that teacher, his practice and this latest story of a yoga scandal are nothing but an illusion. They do not exist.354 views
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What to do when it becomes unbearable (don’t run for the hills).
by Writing Our Way Home on Feb 8, 2012
"To be fully alive, fully human, and completely awake is to be continually thrown out of the nest." ~Pema Chodron513 views
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A Simple Meditation Tip: Experience the Haunting Silence of your Radiant Mind!
by Benjamin Riggs on Feb 7, 2012
A simple tip that may help deepen your practice.1,324 views
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Buddhadharma Without Credentials. ~ Linda V. Lewis
by elephantjournal.com on Feb 6, 2012
As Trungpa Rinpoche said, “Where there’s no perceiver, our perceptions can dance among themselves. But the perceiver doesn’t have to take part in that party. In other words, you can’t watch your own burial service.”354 views
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Embracing Yoga Skepticism.
by Lorin Arnold on Feb 6, 2012
When I come up against stories of the sages, chants about a monkey god, teachings about prana, nadis, chakras and so on, the inner scientist runs right into the center of my brain and makes her presence known.201 views
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Sex, Lies & a Great Master.
by Karl Saliter on Feb 4, 2012
I believe Dharma would tell me to mind my business, to trust absolutely in karma, and to lock my bike.985 views
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Meditation, the B52s, and Spaciousness. ~ Chad Woodland
by elephantjournal.com on Feb 4, 2012
Yes, we Shambhala Buddhist enjoy parties and we love to dance. So we're on the dance floor and the B52s Love Shack comes on and its always been one of my favorite tunes. Great times ensue153 views
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Meditation Isn’t For Me. ~ Dr. Reggie Ray
by Benjamin Riggs on Feb 2, 2012
I don’t really meditate. That’s not my thing.1,123 views
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Where’s My Universal Fairy Godmother? ~ Tracy Crossley
by elephantjournal.com on Feb 2, 2012
My very apparent lack of wish fulfillment caught up with me today. It hit me while on my slightly rainy run; it caused me to yell out “I give up”!206 views
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Michael Stone on the Question, How Do I Enter My Life?
by Michael Stone (Centre of Gravity) on Feb 2, 2012
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Kitchen Sink Dharma: Foundation. ~ Rick Gilbert
by elephantjournal.com on Feb 1, 2012
Shamatha instructs practitioners to place gentle attention on a particular object when discursive thoughts threaten to crowd out a general sense of being present in the moment. Often, the object of light focus is the breath.90 views
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My new secret word-of-the-year: s***loads.
by Writing Our Way Home on Jan 28, 2012
If you're going to sin, sin vigorously'. If we are tempted to do something 'wrong', we should do so whole-heartedly - in this way we more quickly learn what we need to learn.178 views
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Ginsberg, The Mayan Jungle & a Bear Who Will Eat You.
by Karl Saliter on Jan 27, 2012
This poem is Allen praying his grace transfer to you, reader. Praying for you to snap out of it, with the considerable evocative nuance of this master poet. He prays for you and to you, and none of it comes off as prayer.353 views
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Quote of the Day: Melting the Ego.
by Benjamin Riggs on Jan 26, 2012
74 Words that will melt your ego into a great big puddle of love!1,679 views
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Slideshow Video on Chakras 1 & 2: Grounding and Pleasure.
by Julian Walker on Jan 25, 2012
The word "energy" refers to your felt experience of your body, your emotions, sensations, traumas, aspirations... I use the chakras are a poetic way of talking about how the mind lives in the body, and how we hold contractions in different areas and experience this as "blocked energy." Can you stand up for yourself, do you own your right to pleasure, are you ready to heal broken trust and embrace an ecstatic grounding in your sacred body?!320 views
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Back from Exile: Reclaiming Spirituality as My Birthright.
by Chris Lemig on Jan 25, 2012
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Ambivalence & Doubt on the Spiritual Path. ~ Belle DeArmon Alonzo
by elephantjournal.com on Jan 23, 2012
Building your own spiritual path from scratch and life experience is not easy, quite the opposite.133 views
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Be Bold, Brilliant & Bodacious. ~ Sherri Rosen & Tyler Blanski
by elephantjournal.com on Jan 22, 2012
Too often we play it safe, hedge our bets, look for the easiest road. And, when we are afraid to take risks or to pursue our dreams, we settle for what's familiar and safe. But the odds are that when we are only okay, out of danger or home free, we are not living from our hearts. Sure, we might be unhurt, uninjured and unscathed, but we are not really living either.46 views
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Walk the Talk Show with Waylon Lewis: a look back at “elevision,” our first incarnation.
by Walk The Talk Show on Jan 19, 2012
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Religiousness and the Spiritual Path. ~ Chad Woodland
by elephantjournal.com on Jan 19, 2012
Just as monks do with their religious convictions, we can use those inspirations to drive our spiritual journey.101 views
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God & Buddhism: A Western Journey Down the Path of Dharma.
by Benjamin Riggs on Jan 19, 2012
This short article (371 words) puts the fall of man into a modern perspective, unpacks the concept of "God," and suggests that the practice of meditation is an honest relationship with one's Self.778 views
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by elephantjournal.com on Jan 17, 2012
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A Place for Healing.
by Frances Frischkorn on Jan 16, 2012
Crestone became my haven, a place to which I could escape from my wild life and reconnect with the Divine and reconnect with my Self. I learned more about myself in those 12 weeks at Crestone Healing Arts Center than I did in the 20 years of private-school education and 400+ hours of Yoga Teacher Training combined - and that's no lie.504 views
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Leadership + Four Skillful Actions.
by Linda Lewis on Jan 16, 2012
But humanity has survived this far because of these very uplifted qualities, plus ordinary kindness. The nurturing tendency of human beings to be kind doesn’t make the news, but it is the reason why each of us is alive today. The very motivation to lead in order to be of benefit is an expression of this.623 views
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One of the Scariest Things I’ve Ever Done: Living 2 Years at a Buddhist Retreat Center (Part I.). ~ Sherri Rosen
by elephantjournal.com on Jan 16, 2012
Believe me, there were many days I struggled through this practice, not wanting to care about anyone except myself. What I began to realize from doing this practice was not to lash out at others in order to make them feel the pain that I was experiencing. It was important to sit with my feelings and allow them to pass.194 views
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One of the Scariest Things I’ve Ever Done: Transitioning Back to the Real World After 2 Years at a Buddhist Retreat Center (Part II.). ~ Sherri Rosen
by elephantjournal.com on Jan 16, 2012
When I came back to New York City, after my two-year stay, a big change occurred in my publicity business. I began to discriminate whom I would work with as clients, whom I would have as friends and whom I would have as lovers. Respect and kindness became important to me and I began attracting those qualities in the people who came into my life. Not all of the time, but most of the time. After all, it was up to me to discriminate no matter who came into my life.202 views
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What is Anicca, Really? ~ Hector Barrientos-Bullock
by elephantjournal.com on Jan 10, 2012
Anicca is the concept of change that is so spouted upon in Buddhism but not fully understood in the west.295 views
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The Invitation of Yoga.
by Craig Holliday on Jan 9, 2012
Can we live beyond labels, without labels? This is quite a radical stance from the perspective of the mind. One of the main jobs of the mind is to define the world. And as long as we continue to give our mind permission it will continue to put the world in a box. And as long as the world is in a box we will continue to live in the trance of our self created virtual reality.178 views
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Sexism in the Buddhadharma.
by Linda Lewis on Jan 9, 2012
The present 17th Karmapa is actually working hard to establish equality for nuns, going against this remaining frozen "tradition" of sexual inequality within the world of Karme Kagyu monasticism.695 views
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Enlightened Tantric Yogi? Or Abusive, Capitalist Con Artist? ~ Adele Wilde-Blavatsky
by elephantjournal.com on Jan 5, 2012
My first reaction on watching the video was it was very focused on Kalu's pain and grievance. This was in stark contrast to the vast view and understanding of karma, impermanence, selflessness and emptiness that we are used to seeing embodied in great Buddhist practitioners.403 views
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A Yogi’s Intentions for the New Year.
by Craig Holliday on Dec 27, 2011
We all could use more exercise and less chocolate, but is there something deeper that we could live for? We can look to the wisdom of yoga for help with this year's resolutions.489 views
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Get Me Off This Crazy Ride. Or Not. ~ Jeri Senor
by elephantjournal.com on Dec 27, 2011
I have been experiencing some sort of profound consciousness shift. My three lowest chakras (energy vortices lying along the etheric spine, the lowest three associated with survival in terms of meeting basic needs, sexuality and ego-sense respectively) are in a state of complete and irreverent disarray. I am careening out of control and the intensity of this churning and unbounded energy, that has for whatever reason been cathartically awakened, is absolutely flooding into every aspect of my existence.235 views
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elephant Readers’ Most-Read Blogs of 2011.
by elephantjournal.com on Dec 25, 2011
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Tweeting Under the Influence.
by Kate Bartolotta on Dec 23, 2011
I wouldn't take my trash can around to all my friends' houses and leave a little bit on each of their doorsteps, so why do it online?439 views
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On dukkha and sukha (suffering and sweetness).
by Michelle Fajkus on Dec 21, 2011
Dukkha and sukha. Yin and yang. Shadow and light. One can't exist without the other.324 views
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Yoga Will Improve Your Sex Life!
by Jamie Ginsberg on Dec 21, 2011
"Yoga will improve your sex life," I said as a last ditch effort to convince my father-in-law to take a class. As I said the words, the truth of these basic words echoed in my head. Why do we shy away from this as we describe the benefits of yoga with increased clarity, connecting more with the earth and people, stronger muscles and improved flexibility. These are all nice benefits, that cover up the real story here, you will start having better sex. You want me to spell it out for you? S-E-X!!!536 views
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Pema Chodron: You Can Teach an Old Dog New Tricks.
by Waylon Lewis on Dec 20, 2011
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So It’s Money You Want?
by Matt Wallace on Dec 20, 2011
Often times the desire for fortune is put down in the community of spiritual seekers.109 views
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