From Resentful to Fruitful: Answering the Call through Money and Spirituality
From Resentful to Fruitful: Answering the Call through Money and Spirituality Authors Note: “I hate money!” Ok… that may not be entirely
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How Good Posture Brings Good States
When we asked Jordan to write something about his experience as a Karma Yogi at Clear Sky, we didn’t know a poet lurked within. And yet if you know this gentle man, then perhaps you’re not surprised at all.
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Finding Bliss in the Challenge of Retreat
The teachers’ comments cut through the confusion. The belief that I couldn’t do it, couldn’t meditate properly, was simply another arising within the field of empty awareness.
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How will this support my mindfulness practice?
Until I learned to ask the question, “how will this support my mindfulness practice” in everything I do, I had a really frustrating time. In fact, I had two patterns that drove me crazy.
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Attached to The Suffering
Attached to Suffering – Following The Script for the Modern Happy Life Settling for A Normal Life From the time I was
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Learning To Integrate Mindfulness
Learning To Meditate Off The Cushion It’s amazing when you enter a clear and radiant state on the meditation cushion. But can
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Challenging My View of Asperger’s Through Dharma
When I was in university, things got clearer.
I was seeing a psychiatrist and in one session, he said that I have Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD, under which Asperger’s is now classified).
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Finding Connection in Aloneness
It’s a feeling that’s unexplainable, but during that week, I had a taste of what it felt like to be deeply connected to something. To something bigger than myself. Bigger than my problems and my struggles.
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Surrender – Is there always one hand on the controls?
One thing I gained from this taste of surrender was a feeling of deep peace and tranquility. When I didn’t care if I got what I wanted or not anymore, a true sense of freedom arose.
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Three Month Stay: I was Iron Ore in the Clear Sky Forge
I Was Iron Ore in the Clear Sky Forge By Ignacio Dirdam Metallurgy, which is the study of metallic chemistry and its
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Two Views on How Dharma Heals Us
Here we share two of the shorter pieces from our Great Healing series, written by Maureen Smith and Richard Nathaniel.
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How to not let negative emotions own you
After I’d done it, I realized that before, my ego had felt some sort of power and satisfaction from not wanting to do the task.
Does that resonate? How we randomly own a feeling and make it our reality, whether it feels good or not?
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Three Ways I Healed Deep Self-Doubt
Self doubt – it’s useless and painful.
Newsflash, though – since it is created by thinking a certain way, the good news is that it be changed. In other words:
It’s not necessary and can be transformed
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Concentration vs Awareness
Concentration vs Awareness Awareness and concentration are key to mindfulness and meditation. So what’s the difference between awareness and concentration, and can
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