
Relationship as Spiritual Path: Couples Retreat Master Ben Cohen
Mindful Living, RelationshipsIntimate relationships are both an opportunity and a challenge to our capacity for love and vulnerability. Once we…
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Making America Basically Good Again: Merging Political and Contemplative View
Social EngagementTwo days ago I heard a long time senator on NPR describe the current presidential election as the wildest…
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Radical Self Healing: A Conversation with Charley Cropley, N.D.
Mindful LivingAccording to Charley Cropley, N.D., bodily sickness, like all suffering, has real, discoverable causes. The cause is not cancer,…
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Watch: Chapman University at SMC
Creative Expression, Life at SMC, Mindful Living, RelationshipsThis January, a group of students from Chapman University, a liberal arts school in southern California, visited Shambhala Mountain…
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Kay Peterson Discusses Mindful Hiking, Nature, and Meditation
Mindful Living, NatureLike trees in the forest or fish in the sea, we have an innate ability to live in greater…
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Mindfulness in Lila Yoga
Mind-BodyWe're thrilled to have the wonderfully skilled Yogacharya Erica Kaufman returning to DMC this June to lead Lila Yoga®…
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Too Much on Your Plate? Here’s Advice from a Mindfulness Teacher
Mind-Body, Mindful LivingI hope that your plates are full today -- but not too full -- and that you're enjoying every…
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Four Noble Truths for the Age of Natural Consequences / Great Turning
Life at SMC, Mindful Living, Nature, Social Engagement--- By Bez Living as we do in an epoch where the entire span of recorded history is inevitably…
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Cheerful Shambhala Day!
Life at SMCLast week we celebrated Shambhala Day — a holiday based on Losar (Tibetan New Year/Lunar New Year). It’s a…
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Thought-forms: Seeding a New Reality
Life at SMC, Mindful Living, Nature, Social Engagement'--- by Bez Anyone who’s ever done a Zen ‘practice period’, an occasion to intensify engagement with Buddhist principles,…
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Understanding the Interplay Between Karma and Trauma
Mind-BodyIn a previous post, we shared the first part of an illuminating dialogue between Julie Flynn Badal and Dr.…
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Lodro Rinzler Discusses Daily Meditation and Retreat
Mind-Body, Mindful LivingIf you are reading this, you are most likely not in a cave somewhere in the Himalayas, without distraction,…
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