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Healing Your Mother (or Father) Wound
If you have unresolved feelings about your mother (or father), making them part of your mindfulness practice can transform what has been a hindrance in your life into a teacher.
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Opening to Love
Practicing loving-kindness and compassion allows you to be at peace in the midst of suffering.
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Practicing Nonviolence Toward Self
Find freedom from self-violence caused by fearful or wanting mind-states through the practice of mindfulness.
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Self-Soothing during Difficult Times
Through the skillful application of mindfulness, we can learn to self-soothe whenever life knocks us off balance.
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Surrendering to Suffering
If you wish to develop understanding, kindness, and clarity, you must willingly surrender to dukkha, the inevitable pain of life.
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The Ghost of Unfinished Business

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Current triggers may cause unfinished business from our past to surface from our unconscious and cause us to feel haunted, disquieted, or inauthentic. Mindfulness helps us recognize our suffering and the ghost that has arisen. We want to bring these experiences to the forefront so we can respond in the present moment with compassion.

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Two Aspects of Forgiveness Practice

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Practicing forgiveness is not about being able to forgive in the moment; it is about having the intention to forgive, even if our ability to forgive right now is lacking. Why do we resist forgiveness? Why is it so hard to move on in our lives? These are questions worth investigating if we wish to experience greater loving-kindness, compassion, and freedom from suffering.

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Boundaries

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What is the role of the Self in spiritual development? What we think of as being the Self is really our ego, which is a useful, organizing complex within our body of experience. The ego has a sense of boundaries and helps us discern whether our boundaries are wholesome or unwholesome. Boundaries may be sexual, physical, or involve possession and may entail a lover, family, or a group of people. Buddhist precepts show us how to respect boundaries, both our own and those of others.

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Forgiving the Unforgivable

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In the wake of the bombing of the World Trade Center, we would do well to remember the Buddha’s teaching that only love dispels hate and to practice forgiveness — forgiveness for the person, not the act. Forgiveness is clouded by pain and confusion. Resentment can be so strong that it impedes our ability to forgive. Reflection helps us to see the way things are. When we practice forgiveness, we are doing it to find freedom for ourselves and to stop the cycle of hatred in the world. Forgiveness reflects our deepest values and is a way to be proactive, not reactive.

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Two Aspects of Forgiveness Practice

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Practicing forgiveness is not about being able to forgive in the moment; it is about having the intention to forgive, even if our ability to forgive right now is lacking. Why do we resist forgiveness? Why is it so hard to move on in our lives? These are questions worth investigating if we wish to experience greater loving-kindness, compassion, and freedom from suffering.

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Phillip Moffitt

At the peak of his career, former CEO and Editor-in-chief of Esquire magazine, Phillip Moffitt, traded in his worldly aspirations to explore the inner life. He subsequently founded the Life Balance Institute and now teaches vipassana meditation with an emphasis on living the dharma in daily life. Phillip is a co-guiding teacher at Spirit Rock Meditation Center and the author of Emotional Chaos to Clarity and Dancing with Life.

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How to Live More Skillfully, Make Better Decisions, and Find Purpose in Life

Emotional Chaos to Clarity can be purchased in bookstores and on the Internet. It is available in hardcover, paperback, e-book, and audiobook.

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Buddhist Insights for Finding Meaning and in Everyday Life.

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