Dharma Weekend Meditation
“This is your own time. This spot where you sit is your own spot. It is on this very spot and in this very moment that you can become enlightened. You don’t have to sit beneath a special tree in a distant land. Practice like this for a few months, and you will begin to know […]
Karma Weekend Meditation
“Realize that everything connects to everything else.” – Leonardo DaVinci Mantra: Sankalpa When we witness our choices and spend time in the unconditioned aspect of our Being, we make more conscious choices going forward. That’s why ending our guided meditations with a silent meditation is so powerful – because then we spend time in the […]
Acceptance Meditation
“If you are irritated by every rub, how will your mirror be polished?” -Rumi This week we have been exploring the concept and the practice of acceptance. One of the most difficult things to do is accept or allow that which we have resisted. I have often described the personality of peaches – the Buddha […]
Moving Through Loss – Weekend Meditation
“I wanted a perfect ending… Now, I’ve learned the hard way that some poems don’t rhyme, and some stories don’t have a clear beginning, middle, and end. Life is about not knowing, having to change, taking the moment and making the best of it, without knowing what’s going to happen next. Delicious ambiguity.” -Gilda […]
Weekend Abundance
“What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.” — RALPH W. EMERSON Here comes the weekend!!!!! And it’s time to step into our power and open our arms and hearts to ABUNDANCE. As the ancient sage Lao Tzu wrote, “When I let go of who […]
Weekend POWER Meditation
“The most common way people give up their power is by thinking they don’t have any.” – Alice Walker We are STEPPING into OUR POWER!!!! And it’s so much more powerful when we journey on the three-fold path to: First…Gaining clarity. Then…Trusting that the time is now – and that the DO-er is YOU! And, […]
Nature Weekend
“Our task must be to free ourselves… by widening our circle of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature and it’s beauty.” ― Albert Einstein Nature flows effortlessly, gracefully, and easily. Whether it’s the wind in a hummingbirds wings, a thundering herd of elephants, or a babbling brook, the world around […]
Smile on Your Brother Weekend Meditation
Get Together by The Youngbloods Love is but the song we sing, And fear’s the way we die You can make the mountains ring Or make the angels cry Know the dove is on the wing And you need not know why C’mon people now, Smile on your brother Ev’rybody get together Try and love […]
Stress at Work: Breath More, Stress Less Weekend Meditation
Only Breath Not Christian or Jew or Muslim, not Hindu Buddhist, sufi, or zen. Not any religion or cultural system. I am not from the East or the West, not out of the ocean or up from the ground, not natural or ethereal, not composed of elements at all. I do not exist, am not […]
Real Benefits of Meditation Weekend (Stress Relief)
The Dalai Lama, when asked what surprised him most about humanity, answered “Man. Because he sacrifices his health in order to make money. Then he sacrifices money to recuperate his health. And then he is so anxious about the future that he does not enjoy the present; the result being that he does not live […]