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How and Why We Sit, By Mark Nunberg

There’s an old saying: “If we always do what we’ve always done, we’ll always get what we’ve always gotten.” This old proverb helps us understand why one might want to sit down right in the middle of one’s life and train the heart to be intimate or real with the conditions of the moment. “This […]

Protections for the Heart: Wisdom and Loving Kindness, by Rebecca Bradshaw

We have been born into this awesome, mysterious, incomprehensible, wild world of change. As humans, we’re not super excited about continuous change. It makes us feel vulnerable. We have this yearning for openheartedness in this world, and yet we’d like to feel safe, too. We want some kind of lasting security, which we go about […]

Brightening the Mind: Non-isolation, by Venerable Ajahn Sucitto

What follows is a response to a query from my last posting: ‘How do you brighten the mind?’ The question isn’t an unusual one, and that in itself says something. Despite hundreds of years of human development, improvement in terms of health, communications, opportunities for travel, let alone a deluge of commodities, the mind often remains a gloomy or barren space… Continue reading article

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