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Holding Sadness in Meditation
This was what I felt needed to be said during a retreat I led this past weekend: read more
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Matthieu Ricard: A Call for Solidarity
Tibetan Buddhist monk and author, Matthieu Ricard, was visiting his home town in Aix-les-Bains, in France, for a conference when the Paris attacks occurred last week. Ricard, a scientist who holds a...
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IDP Annual Gratitude Journal - Open Thanksgiving to New Year's Day - Share...
Welcome to our 4th Annual Gratitude Journal! From Thanksgiving through New Year's Day, the IDP community posts our gratitude daily in the comments section below. read more
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Ending a War against Pain
Seven years ago, I developed a mysterious chronic pain in my upper body that had me unable to type, hold a piece of paper, and relegated to the cool wooden floor of my girlfriend’s apartment for hours...
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Dedication for 2016
As a kid, I always looked forward to Hanukkah (what kid doesn't want to eat fried potato pancakes and get eight presents and money is made out of chocolate?) But it wasn't until this year that the...
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Belonging
For the new year, I was asked to write a letter to my Zen teacher, requesting him to continue teaching for another year. I’ve never done anything like this, so I copied the suggested wording (which I...
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5 Ways To Use The Power Of Mindfulness And Compassion With Families and Teens
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Real Happiness Challenge - Week 1: The Internal Weather Service
I choose to believe that all beings are part of a single organism. We are all part of a humming, sometimes thriving, sometimes aching ecosystem. Hurting those whom I consider “others” slows down the...
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Real Happiness Challenge - Week 1 - Groundhog Day
Meditation practice feels a lot like the movie Groundhog Day. Everytime I sit down to focus it's the same thing, over and over again; my attention is on my breath, then I get distracted by a sound, a...
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Real Happiness Challenge - Week 1
"The art of beginning again": Sharon's instruction has never felt more gently apropos than this month, this time around in the 28-Day Real Happiness challenge. I'm beginning this 28-day practice cycle...
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Real Happiness Challenge-Week 1: Concentration: How To Tame Our Monkey Mind,...
“Oh my god I sooo have ADD!”read more
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Real Happiness Challenge Week 1: How You Speak To Yourself
The body the body the body.The breath the breath the breath. How do you speak to yourself?What did you say just now?How did you say it?Who is speaking and why?read more
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Real Happiness Challenge Week 1: The breath is everything
The word for today is balance. read more
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Real Happiness Challenge - Week 2: How Fast Can You Take Your Time, Kid?
“DE is a way of doing. DE simply means doing whatever you do in the easiest most relaxed way you can manage which is also the quickest and most efficient way, as you will find as you advance in DE.You...
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Real Happiness Challenge: Week 2 - Where Am I?
Like a lot of New Yorkers, I'm a busy person! Rushing from place to place, answering endless emails, Facebooking, Instagraming, Twittering, drinking coffee, attending meetings, scheduling, writing a...
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Real Happiness Challenge - Week 2 Political Bodies
The New Hampshire primary ended last night, with Bernie Sanders pulling in the Democrats read more
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Real Happiness Challenge: Week Two--Relaxation is a Skill
Hello, friends from IDP! Here I am! See me waving from Southern California? I'm sweating a bit. We are having a "mid-winter heat wave" here in Los Angeles. Ninety degrees in February! It's hard to pick...
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Real Happiness Week Two: I love to alleviate suffering!
In a talk last year at the New York City Shambhala Center, angel Kyodo Williams said that if your practice isn't in some way alleviating suffereing, you should change practices. read more
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Real Happiness Week 2: Coloring meditatively
Maybe you've seen some of the dozens of stories about coloring as the new meditation. People who know I meditate send them to me and ask what I think -- which is that coloring is not actually...
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