Balance And Being Gentle With Ourselves
One of the conversations that came up in the last class, Self-Care, Balance and Deep Community Connection was how do we bring balance into areas of our life where we’re …
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Tonglen
Tonglen practice reverses our usual logic of avoiding suffering and seeking pleasure. In tonglen practice, we visualize taking in our own pain or other people challenges, with every in-breath and …
Palestine and Israel
“I think one helpful angle is to emphasize who belongs to the Land – *not* who the Land supposedly ‘belongs’ to. From this perspective, Jews quite obviously belong in/to the …
Communing With the Divine
Noticing when we’re attached to a point of view, old pattern from the past, or a disempowering paradigm can be a powerful door into the transformational process of surrender. Our …
Spiritual Bypassing vs Authentic Healing
“Spiritual Bypass is based in hierarchy, duality or “right/wrong thinking” from the ego. This is another cut at it. ”And then we tend to use absolute truth to disparage or …
Metaphysical – Whole, Complete and Perfect
We generally define metaphysical as beyond the physical senses or what we cannot measure or detect through objective studies of material reality. Very broadly defined, it is philosophy that seeks …
Metaphysical Living
Putting metaphysics into practice is a deeply personal and transformative journey that empowers us to align our lives with the profound principles of the universe. It begins with cultivating a …
Metaphysics or Metaphysician?
Metaphysician: An expert in or student of the branch of Philosophy that deals with the first principles of things, including abstract concepts such as being and knowing. Reading about or talking …
Breakthroughs
“If the doors of perception were cleansed, everything would appear to man as it is: infinite.” — William Blake, 1757-1827, English poet and painter “Metaphysical” is defined as “beyond the physical.” …
What is a Breakthrough?
Breakthroughs can be desirable or undesirable. You can have breakthrough pain or you might break through the ice on a lake in the winter neither of which is desirable. You …