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How I Ended my Chronic Anxiety and Depression with Buddhist Practice Part 2 The most transformation teaching I received during…

Could Unequal Compassion have been the Roots of my Depression and Anxiety? For the last two blog posts I have…

Garden Variety Depression and Anxiety can be helped by Mindfulness-Awareness Practice The Buddha, in the second of his famous Four…

‘Gathering Circle’ —A Buddhist Practice The most common group activity participated in by practitioners of Vajrayana Buddhism is a  gathering…

Some folks say Buddhism is a religion. And it has many of the trappings of religion: large hierarchical institutions, canonical…

Part One: Harsh Speech How can you tell a Dharma practitioner—someone who puts the Buddha’s teachings into use—from someone who…

Part 2: Honesty Dharma Speech Part 2 Another way you can tell if others are putting the Buddha’s teachings into…

Practicing as Deity/Buddha Practicing deity gets us out of our narrow little minds and forever changes us. Viewing ourselves as a…

If you feel stuck in your practice, as though your meditation is not creating a permanent shift away from your…

It rolls in like the fog creeping under the Golden Gate. It is the leaden, motherless, mantle of sorrow. The…