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Lower the Pressure

September 24, 2011
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Is it truly urgent? The Practice: Lower the pressure. Why? Things come at us with so much urgency and demand these days. Phones ring, texts buzz, emails pile up, new balls have to be juggled, work days lengthen and move into evenings and weekends, traffic gets denser, financial demands feel like a knife at the [...]

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Love the World

August 20, 2011
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Are we really so separate? The Practice: Love the world. Why? Your brain evolved in three stages (to simplify a complex process): Reptile – Brainstem, focused on AVOIDING harm Mammal – Limbic system, focused on APPROACHING rewards Primate – Cortex, focused on ATTACHING to “us” With a fun use (to me, at least) of animal [...]

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Empty the Cup

June 27, 2011
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Are you full to the rim? The Practice: Empty the cup. Why? Once upon a time, a scholar came to visit a saint. After the scholar had been orating and propounding for a while, the saint proposed some tea. She slowly filled the scholar’s cup: gradually the tea rose to the very brim and began [...]

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Rest

June 8, 2011
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Busy, busy? The Practice: Rest. Why? This practice is definitely a case of teaching what you need to learn: I’ve been working through a big bucket of tasks lately with little chance to rest. (I console myself with knowing that the bucket is emptying a lot faster than it’s filling with new tasks.) Sometimes you [...]

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