I received another email, this time from my dear friend Betina whom I have known and loved since we started working together at the New York City Welfare Department the same day in 1968. She was the first truly spiritual person I ever met, and has been in my heart ever since. She also took [...]
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Compassion for Oneself: ODE TO A KNEE
Posted in Joseph Goldstein, Mindfulness, tagged awareness, compassion, detachment, faith, Joseph Goldstein, joy, knee replacement, loving kindness, Mindfulness, non-clinging, pain, suffering, two darts, Washington Square Monument on March 30, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Loving Kindness: PAY IT FORWARD
Posted in Mindfulness, Phra Ajahn Tong, Wat Chom Tong, tagged book, Buddhism, Buddhist psychology, Canadian Lyme Disease Foundation, compassion, Dr. Greg Blaney, illness, Illness is Not for the Fain of Heart, impermanence, loving kindness, Lyme disease, Marshall Protocol, meditation class, Mindful Meditation, Mindfulness, motivational, movie, Nanaimo, non-attatchment, non-clinging, non-self, pay it forward, Phra Ajahn Tong, Ralph Frank, Stillpoint Centre, Vancouver, vancouver island, Wat Chom Tong on March 28, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
I received the following email from Ross, who has been attending the Monday Evening Meditation Group. Hey Ralph I sure do appreciate the healing journey to my recovery, you’ve introduced me to. Given an opportunity, my intention is to pay it forward, in your honour. Lucy reminds me of a beautiful star, she glows with [...]
Impermanence: APPRECIATING THE MOMENT
Posted in Mindful Meditation, Mindfulness, Personal Reflections, Phra Ajahn Suphan, Thich Nhat Hahn, Wat Ram Poeng, tagged acknowledge, B.C., beauty, Cherry Blossoms, concentration, fear, flowers, grasping, gratitude, impermanence, joy, loss, meditation, Nanaimo, nature, nature of things, Phra Ajahn Suphan, present moment awareness, responsibility, Thich Nhat Hahn, vancouver island, Wat Rampoeng, worry on March 18, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
The cherry blossoms have arrived in Nanaimo early this year. Going for a walk this morning before meeting with my small meditation study group, I stopped by one of the trees, taking a moment to appreciate the beauty. I walk past these trees all year long, yet it is only for a few short weeks [...]
Mindful Awareness: DOES SLEEPING IN MEDITATION COUNT?
Posted in Dalai Lama, Jack Kornfield, Joseph Goldstein, Mindful Meditation, Mindfulness, Personal Reflections, Phra Ajahn Suphan, Wat Ram Poeng, tagged acknowledge, aging parent, awareness, Buddhism, caretaker, caring, choiceless awareness, compassion, Dalai Lama, equinimity, guilt, heart, Jack Kornfield, Joseph Goldstein, mindful awareness, Mindful Meditation, Northern Insight Meditation Center, noticing, noting awareness, Phra Ajahn Suphan, sleepiness, Wat Rampoeng, worry on March 17, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
It was the morning after returning home from a week of taking care of my father. The exercise portion of my morning practice was sluggish and my thoughts drifted all over. The sitting meditation was very peaceful, but I kept falling asleep; when this happens I call this sleepitation. Sleepy Face at Deviant Art I [...]
Worry Swept Away by Waves of Joy
Posted in Mindfulness, Personal Reflections, tagged Abiding in Mindfulness, anxiety, awareness, calm, caretaking, creativity, detachment, Half Moon Bay, happiness, hawk, heart, joy, loving kindness, messenger, mindful awareness, ocean, peace, San Mateo, Spaciousness, stress, sun, Sun Centre for Well Being, waves, wind, worry on March 15, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Gift from the Sea
Teaching Meditation: MINDFULNESS WITH CHILDREN
Posted in Mindful Meditation, Mindfulness, Personal Reflections, tagged art and play therapy, children, Friendship Centre, Goldie Hawn, Hawn Foundation, meditation class, Mindful Meditation, Nanaimo, Tillicum Haus, Tillicum Lelum on March 4, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
I can’t imagine being luckier. Besides so many other wonderful things going on in my life, my job involves doing art and play therapy with children at the Tillicum Lelum Health Centre, an Aboriginal Friendship Centre in Nanaimo. Many of these children have faced very difficult issues that no child should ever have to contend [...]
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