[January 2024 – Dharma Center Mindfulness Tip] We crave stability and security. Our mind creates an artificial sense of security by manufacturing the illusion that how we currently perceive the world is how it’s always been. Yet we know our world and our perception are inherently unstable. We and everything…
Recently, I had the good fortune to receive three sound healing sessions from the magical Mikii Seed . We were on Hawaii, and she suggested I practice Ho’oponopono and welcome back my past lives. She and the partners she consulted about my case thought integrating my past lives may provide…
[a short story by Turiya Dhara] Atla Tis hacked away at the brush with her machete. Although she walked this trail every three months – every Solstice and every Equinox – the jungle took it over completely. Carefully slicing her way up the mountain, she planted each foot firmly before…
[December 2023 – Dharma Center Mindfulness Tip] As the Winter Solstice approaches, the power of the shifting Earth tumbles through me. Rapture and rupture alternate as this world is torn asunder. Within the mind-streams of billions of people, choices are being made. Some cling to the old models, ushering in…
[November 2023 – Dharma Center Mindfulness Tip] Is there a difference between peace and contentment? In my experience, yes, there is a profound difference. When we come to embrace the spiritual path, it is because we finally decide we have suffered enough. We want to know life beyond suffering. We…
[October 2023 – Dharma Center Mindfulness Tip] Pay attention when you embark upon new adventures, and when you are in the monotony of maintenance, pay attention. Whether you are planning and building or if things are ending and you are saying goodbye, pay attention. Pay attentionin moments of confusion and fear Pay attention in moments of…
[September 2023 – Dharma Center Mindfulness Tip] In an attempt to make sense of ourselves, the world, and our place within it, we often seek to know “why.” This retrospective analysis results in only a temporary egoic satisfaction. If we look at any situation long enough, the reasoning we came…
[August 2023 – Dharma Center Mindfulness Tip] Our society holds the promise of joy out in front of us like a carrot on a stick. We’re told we can be happy when … when we finish our degree, when we land the high paying job, when we buy the house,…
[July 2023 – Dharma Center Mindfulness Tip] A project or goal is a relationship. We always have a choice when it comes to relationships. We can love or we can hate. We can remain or we can leave. Sometimes a relationship is thrust upon us, and we fight. Other times…
[June 2023 – Dharma Center Mindfulness Tip] Every year around this time, the air currents form coastal eddies which create a thick layer of fog stretching from the coast towards the foothills. We call it May Gray and June Gloom. On most days, the inland valleys will clear by the…