READ: Compassion The Dalai Lama Way by Ed and Deb Shapiro
April 17, 2012 by Ed and Deb Shapiro
Filed under •-Feature, Love, Meditation, Mindfulness, Spiritual Guidance, Spirituality
Shortly after we were married we went to India and spent our honeymoon in ashrams and monasteries, and then in McCleod Ganj, where the Dalai Lama lives in exile in northern India along with other Tibetan refugees who have escaped Chinese rule in Tibet. Once there we went to the Office of Securities to request [...]
READ: If You’re Not Here Then Where Are You? by Ed and Deb Shapiro
April 10, 2012 by Ed and Deb Shapiro
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Life is what happens to you while you’re busy making other plans. John Lennon Who said life would be like walking the yellow brick road, or that the human condition would be easy? And why is it so important to be here? What’s the big deal? It appears that the reason we’re not happy is [...]
READ: What Does Karma Yoga Mean? by Ed and Deb Shapiro
April 4, 2012 by Ed and Deb Shapiro
Filed under •-Feature, Ego, Love, Meditation, Meditation, Mindfulness, Spiritual Guidance, Spirituality, Yoga, Yoga
Serving enables us to release any sense of separation. It takes us out of selfishness and neediness, and we discover that in giving we do not have any less.
READ: How Hot Is Your Anger? by Ed and Deb Shapiro
March 28, 2012 by Ed and Deb Shapiro
Filed under •-Feature, Insights, Meditation, Mindfulness, Personal Growth, Reflection, Spiritual Guidance, Spirituality
By naming the many faces of anger we can stay present with it as it arises, keeping the heart open, breathing, watching emotions come up and pass through.
READ: 6 Reasons Why Meditation Appears So Difficult by Ed and Deb Shapiro
March 20, 2012 by Ed and Deb Shapiro
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We were teaching a meditation program in North Wales, in the UK, in a quiet backwater near the hills. It was a peaceful day, everyone was happily seated, and we had just rung the gong to begin the morning session when a motorbike started revving right outside the window. It was a loud and annoying [...]
