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The name of G-d is the sound of our breathing
When Moses encountered G-d on Mount Sinai, he asked what G-d’s name was and G-d answered: YHWH. YHWH is comprised of aspirated consonants that, spoken, are the sound of breathing. Try it: Y-H is the in-breath and W-H is the out-breath. So from the moment of our birth to the end of our life, and…
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Mental Health in the Workplace
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Medicine Walk, 13 June 2020
It starts out with a question, as big as it gets: “Which path should I take — the main road or some less traveled path?” Roshi’s words insinuate themselves: “Be aimless.” The path less traveled seems more consistent. As I bushwhack up a hill, I smell Christmas! Having grown up in a tropical place, there…
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Mindfulness and Othering
Written on 19 May 2018 Today I want to talk about how this practice of mindfulness can be used in dealing with conflicts. I have been thinking about how to be able to talk about this topic ever since I came to Jerusalem in October last year. The photo shows my view as I thought…
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Gate of Sweet Nectar
Calling out to hungry hearts Everywhere through endless time You who wander you who thirst I offer you this Bodhi mind. Calling out to hungry spirits Everywhere through endless time Calling out to hungry hearts All the lost and the left behind. Gather round and share this meal Your joy and your sorrow I’ll make…
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Everything is practice
“On the great road of Buddha ancestors there is always unsurpassable practice, continuous, and sustained. It forms the circle of the Way, and is never cut off. Between aspiration, practice, enlightenment, and nirvana, there is not a moment’s gap. Continuous practice is the circle of the Way. This being so, continuous practice is unstained, not…
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A Mind of No Preference
Trust In Mind the Hsin Shin Ming of Tseng Ts’an, Third Patriarch of Zen The Great Way is not difficultfor those who have no preferences.When not attached to love or hate,all is clear and undisguised.Separate by the smallest amount, however,and you are as far from it as heaven is from earth. If you wish to know…
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Bodhgaya
Rainer Maria Rilke in his Letters to a Young Poet: “Be patient toward all that is unsolved in your heart and try to love the questions themselves, like locked rooms and like books that are now written in a very foreign tongue.” “Do not now seek the answers, which cannot be given you because you…