by Jeanne Ricci | Apr 13, 2021 | Articles, Skillful Living
Knowing What’s Really Happening: Experience vs. Interpretation A crucial skill for minimizing emotional chaos and sustaining clarity in your life is the ability to distinguish between your experience and your interpretation of your experience. A crucial skill for... 
by Marco | Jan 28, 2021 | Dharma Talks, Disappointment & Loss, Self-Soothing Practices, Skillful Living
The Dharma of Discouragement Discouragement from your past and imaginings about how bad the future will be drain your energy and cause you to fail. When you embrace starting over as a practice, you focus instead on what you are doing right now and what you need to do... 
by Marco | Jan 28, 2021 | Dharma Talks, Disappointment & Loss, Skillful Living
Good Fortune, Bad Fortune In very trying circumstances remembering your intention to not cause suffering and remembering your “don’t know mind” can lead to cessation of suffering. Dharma Wisdom with Phillip Moffitt · Good Fortune, Bad... 
by Marco | Jan 28, 2021 | Dharma Talks, Skillful Living
Mindfulness: Fully Aware in the Moment One of the tools the Buddha taught for gaining insight is mindfulness, the ability to be fully aware in the moment. Mindfulness enables you to go beneath the surface level of moment-to-moment life experience, which is clouded... 
by Marco | Nov 22, 2020 | Articles, Newsletter Archive, Skillful Living
How Preferences Prejudice Your Perceptions What you perceive from among all the stimuli in your environment is biased by your preferences, and your preferences are conditioned by past experiences. Look around you. What do you notice? There are endless things in both... 
by Marco | Nov 22, 2020 | Articles, Skillful Living
Balancing Priorities If you hope to find lasting happiness, you must answer the question, what is your true priority—your inner life or your outer life? “The highest compassion, the only true act of compassion, is to point a person to their own... 