Some time ago my wife and I saw the movie, Lincoln, directed by Steven Spielberg. November 19 of that year was the 151st anniversary of the Gettysburg Address, given by Lincoln 1863.
Watching the antics of the award-winning “Henri the Cat” inspired me to write this post. For your best experience, please watch this two-minute episode: “Henri 2, Paw de Deux.”
In this post we discuss important pradigm shifts that help us overcome persistent obstacles to our happiness and creativity. These shifts and other insights will be presented in depth in our upcoming webinar, Dissolve Your Limiting Patterns With Ease.
Most of us struggle to change habit patterns that cause us pain and confusion. It’s often a “one step forward, two steps back” process. Whether we’re trying to quit smoking or lose weight, end a drug, alcohol or sex addiction, or recover from trauma, we often feel helpless and demoralized when these patterns seem to take over.
This article has insights that are a good preparation for the January/February webinar that begins next Wednesday, the 15th: Emotional Healing Begins in the Present Moment The Buddha said: “You yourself, as much as anybody in the entire universe, deserve your love and affection.”
Why do states of depression and anxiety come up again and again, despite our best efforts? At their root, these obstacles arise primarily from how we relate to our minds, not from external causes.
We are all familiar with procrastinating. However, procrastination can be very subtle and difficult to address. It may even seem innocent. Has it occurred to you that being satisfied with “knowing intellectually (but it doesn’t help)” is procrastination?
I once took a weekend seminar at NalandaWest in Seattle with a wonderful Tibetan teacher, Tsoknyi Rinpoche, author of Open Heart, Open Mind. Rinpoche has a down to earth, humorous way of presenting the teachings, filled with personal anecdotes.
In a Japanese legend, the great Dharma Chan (Zen) master Bodhidharma cut off his eyelids because he fell asleep in meditation. According to Chinese legend his main disciple Dazu Huikecut off his arm to convince Bodhidharma he was sincere and worthy to receive the teachings.
We are all familiar with procrastinating. We may even consider procrastination to be a problem we really need to address. If we are fortunate to not have an obvious addiction, we may not see the link between procrastination and subtle unconscious addictive patterns such as substance addiction, disordered eating, porn, or other compulsive habits.