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Anicca, Dukkha/Sukha, Anatta
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THE THREE CHARACTERS OF EXISTENCE: ANICC...
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2021 August 05: Anicca, Dukkha, Anatta, the Three Characteristics of Existence
Anicca dukkha and anatta, is another way of understanding the world we live in. “Nothing personal but everything changes!” Let’s savor the ease and let go of the stress.
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2021 August 03: The Problem with Over Orchestrating our Experience
Settling back into the mind-body-heart eco-system.
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2021 August 02: Not Being Encumbered by Thought
It is our relationship to thinking that creates mental distress.
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2021 July 29: The Dance of, Self & Not Self, of Self & Other, of In Here & Out There
We are “complex cats” as Bill likes to say. There is a whole cast of characters that live inside that vie for center stage. In mindfulness, through its friendly posture of caring attention, we can get acquainted with them, as they appear, and learn how to “love them into the fold of mindfulness”, as I am wont to say.
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2021 July 27: The Kintsugi Craftsperson
Like a kintsugi craftsperson, we can love all of the broken parts back into wholeness. All parts are welcomed.
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2021 July 26: Care for the Self WHILE Caring for Others
No compassion fatigue here! From a mindful perspective we can learn to care for ourselves in real time!, for those parts that are hurting, are in pain physically or emotionally, AND/WHILE caring for others’ pain and suffering.
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2021 July 22: The Dance of Both / And, Rather than Either / Or
Mindfulness moves us out of our dualistic perspective into a wider, more inclusive position.
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2021 July 20: The Problem with Perfectionism
How we create more suffering by creating unrealistic expectations.
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2021 July 19: Selfing is not the Enemy
Identifying with self-defeating narratives is what creates Dukkha.
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2021 July 15: Anatta...Stepping into a Wider Perspective
We start to move in the direction of “Anatta” when we step out of our own personal view and into a wider view that includes our own AND others' needs and feelings.
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2021 July 13: Selfing
The Experience of Selfing - on and off the cushion.
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2021 July 12: Overview of Non-Self: Anatta
Correcting common misunderstandings of this core concept.
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2021 July 08: Why aren't we Content More of the Time?
Exploring the creative meditative move toward ease of well being.
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2021 July 06: "Why?" is a Meditator's Question
Things happen, plans change, life is unpredictable. What is uncomfortable? Attend kindly!!! What is comfortable? Notice & appreciate. FEEL for the ease amidst the dis-ease that is present!...the Sukha amidst the Dukkha.
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2021 July 01: Turning Toward the Difficult with Open Arms
Transmuting Dukkha into Sukha.
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