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Resting into fullness. A way to explore the green zone as a way of engaging the challenges of life while not getting stressed. [vc_row css_animation=”” row_type=”row” use_row_as_full_screen_section=”no” type=”full_width” angled_section=”no” text_align=”left” background_image_as_pattern=”without_pattern”][vc_column][vc_column_text css=”.vc_custom_1585341898773{margin-bottom: 30px !important;}”]In this meditation, talk and discussion from my Wednesday Night Meditation, we start with a 45-minute meditation in Resting at Peace in…

This talk from the San Rafael Meditation group with Rick Hanson, Ph.D. It is titled, “The Biology of Craving – and Not” and focuses on biological nature of craving and what we can do about it. This talk included a guided meditation which you can download here…. [vc_row css_animation=”” row_type=”row” use_row_as_full_screen_section=”no” type=”full_width” angled_section=”no” text_align=”left” background_image_as_pattern=”without_pattern”][vc_column][vc_column_text css=”.vc_custom_1585341898773{margin-bottom: 30px…

The San Rafael Meditation focuses on warming the heart and providing practical guidelines from the Buddha in terms of right speech, right action, and right livelihood. [vc_row css_animation=”” row_type=”row” use_row_as_full_screen_section=”no” type=”full_width” angled_section=”no” text_align=”left” background_image_as_pattern=”without_pattern”][vc_column][vc_column_text css=”.vc_custom_1585341898773{margin-bottom: 30px !important;}”]In this meditation, talk and discussion from my Wednesday Night Meditation, we start with a 45-minute meditation in Resting…

This talk from the San Rafael Meditation focuses on Resting in Fullness which is informed by and gets at the transition between the second and third noble truth in Buddhism, from more craving to less craving and any craving to no craving. [vc_row css_animation=”” row_type=”row” use_row_as_full_screen_section=”no” type=”full_width” angled_section=”no” text_align=”left” background_image_as_pattern=”without_pattern”][vc_column][vc_column_text css=”.vc_custom_1585341898773{margin-bottom: 30px !important;}”]In this meditation,…

This talk from the San Rafael Meditation focuses on on our need for safety and developing resources inside of our selves to feel safe and at peace. [vc_row css_animation=”” row_type=”row” use_row_as_full_screen_section=”no” type=”full_width” angled_section=”no” text_align=”left” background_image_as_pattern=”without_pattern”][vc_column][vc_column_text css=”.vc_custom_1585341898773{margin-bottom: 30px !important;}”]In this meditation, talk and discussion from my Wednesday Night Meditation, we start with a 45-minute meditation in…

This talk from the San Rafael Meditation focuses on resting in fullness is a way to explore the transition between the second (craving) and third (end of craving) noble truths in Buddhism. [vc_row css_animation=”” row_type=”row” use_row_as_full_screen_section=”no” type=”full_width” angled_section=”no” text_align=”left” background_image_as_pattern=”without_pattern”][vc_column][vc_column_text css=”.vc_custom_1585341898773{margin-bottom: 30px !important;}”]In this meditation, talk and discussion from my Wednesday Night Meditation, we start…

“I was constantly seeking a balance between mourning what’s already been lost, making space for the time and moments we still had left, and making sense of this complicated process that felt like my heart was split between two contrasting realities: hope and heartbreak.” ~Liz Newman There is a quiet heaviness that begins to settle…

“Finally, I realized that I was never asking too much. I was just asking the wrong person.” ~Unknown Friendship should nourish the soul. And in my life, for the most part, it has. I have a small, longstanding circle of friends steeped in a long-shared history. We’re basically a real-life, thirty-five-year-long John Hughes film. However,…

“As a solid rock is not shaken by the wind, the wise are not shaken by praise or blame.” ~The Dhammapada, Verse 81 Some moments lift you like moonlight. Others break you like a wave. I’ve lived through both—and I’ve come to believe that the way we move through these emotional thresholds defines who we…

“Music was my refuge. I could crawl into the space between the notes and curl my back to loneliness.” ~Maya Angelou I used to believe that healing and personal transformation required a lot of effort—writing page after page in a journal or getting up at the crack of dawn to carry out a morning routine,…