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A Four Step Mindfulness Process

I’ve tried many times to maintain mindfulness throughout the day, but let’s face it, it’s not easy. Especially when I’m at work all day (with my job often following me home), it’s pretty hard to not zoom through the day

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Letting Go

If you let go a little, you will have a little peace. If you let go a lot, you will have a lot of peace. If you let go completely, you will know complete peace and freedom. — Ajahn Chah

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Letting Go – simple, precise and potent

AudioDharma.org (via Zencast) recently posted a dharma talk from Gil Fronsdal about three kinds of practice. The three he discussed are Development, Letting Go and No Practice. He goes into some detail about each and why some work better than

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Dealing with difficult people

I like to think I’m one of those people who gets along with everyone. And for the most part, I do. But I’ve been struggling with a few difficult people who are relatively unavoidable for years now. There were three

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Piling It On

Today was a “bad day”. I’m always careful to keep that thought in perspective… nobody died, fell seriously ill or had a personal tragedy. But it was one of those days where things just went wrong instead of right. As

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This Buddhism, That Buddhism

After hearing David Chapman on Buddhist Geeks, I thought he sounded interesting and certainly intelligent. I’ve been focused mainly on Theravada Buddhism and insight meditation, which he politely eschewed as “hardcore” and incompatible with non-renunciative practice. To be honest, I

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