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Benchmarks of spiritual practice

Here is a list of 12 benchmarks of spiritual practice (Saskia Davis's Symptoms of Inner Peace) with examples of how…

May 29, 2012

Positivity is contagious

Are you a movie buff? Do you enjoy going to a theater, watching a movie and getting caught up in…

January 19, 2012

Five ways to increase your joy

Joy (sukha in Pali) should be our natural state of being. Unfortunately, though, we've been brought up in a society…

January 14, 2012

How to get into jhāna (or dhyāna, if you prefer Sanskrit)

I'd like to offer you a simple, four-step approach to cultivating jhāna. With a little practice and refinement, this approach…

June 17, 2011

Chogyam Trungpa on Warriorship

In these extracts from a forthcoming book from Shambhala Publications, the late Chogyam Trungpa defines his vision of the peaceful…

October 25, 2008

Muhammad Ali: “Children make you want to start life over.”

Probably all of us have looked at a child and wished we could start our lives over again. We can't…

January 29, 2008