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Meditating with pets
I have a daily Zoom meditation group as part of Wildmind’s Meditation Initiative, and there are often a few pets in evidence. In fact one day someone commented that it must be “Take Your Dog to...
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The thing you may sometimes confuse with true kindness
Someone recently wrote to me sharing his reservations about the use of the word “love” to translate metta. Metta is a Buddhist word that is most often translated as “lovingkindness.” I confess I used...
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Love, grammar, and magic
I’ve just finished reading Lawrence Weinstein’s book, “Grammar for a Full Life,” which I intend to write a review of later this week. (Spoiler: I’ll be recommending the book highly.) “Grammar for a...
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The benefits of making things hard for ourselves
I find that a lot of the time, when people are cultivating kindness or compassion for a person they find difficult, they do it in a rather vague way. Usually in their meditation practice they just...
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“Goodnight Love: A Bedtime Meditation Story”
Please order books locally, rather than from Amazon, through, Shambhala, Indiebound (US), or Bookshop.org (US and UK) A little while ago I received an email from Sumi Loundon Kim, telling me about a...
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In lovingkindness practice, don’t look for love; look with love
I remember one time, not long after I’d first learned to meditate, I was being guided through the lovingkindness (metta bhavana) meditation practice. And the instructor asked us to turn our attention...
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A meditation for accepting aging
An elderly friend of mine once said to me, “Aging isn’t for sissies.” She was talking mainly about the physical difficulties of getting older, and especially the aches, pains, and difficulty in doing...
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Four spiritual love languages
Yesterday on Mastodon, which is the only social media site I use at the moment besides the private online community space I host for Wildmind’s sponsors, someone shared a link to a “love languages”...
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12 Ways to respond to unkindness with kindness
I came across this on Mastodon (the BEST social media platform), shared by user Vee, and thought it was really useful. I haven’t been able to find out for sure where it’s from, but it seems to be from...
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Self-love, self-kindness, and non-self
Some wrote to me recently and asked two questions, which boiled down to: Did the Buddha teach self-love? Is loving yourself contrary to seeing through the illusion of self? There was a third question,...
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