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Daily Connect: Loving Your Enemy?

Director of SCPS Leroy Smith helps a member of the Loyal White Knights of the Ku Klux Klan at a July 18th rally in Columbia, South Carolina.  Photo by @robgodfrey via Twitter.  read more

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Daniel de Sosa's Cosmic Cat

Daniel de Sosa is an American-born comics artist living in the United Kingdom inspired by science fiction, heavy metal, screwball comedy, and Buddhist tales and traditions. Like many artists too...

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Metta Month Begins Tomorrow! Take the 30 Day Lovingkindness Challenge

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Crabby Metta Practice

In personal situations, sometimes I feel very strongly that I'm right and you're wrong. It's very hard for me to see that you have your own point of view, that you don't mean me any harm, and that your...

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Daily Connect: Metta Lessens Self-Criticism

The Wall Street Journal has an article this week on the latest research study about lovingkindness meditation.  Researchers studied participants of a seven-week LKM meditation program.  They report...

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Daily Connect: Urban Metta Practice

Although many believe meditation means sitting motionless in a quiet room, it's important to remember that meditation can be done anytime, anywhere.  Metta meditation is particularly easy to do in...

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And I Love You

Very early tomorrow I will be getting on a plane and heading off to a fairly remote retreat center in Colorado. Very early. The first flight leaves at 5 a.m., which means leaving the house around 2:30...

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Making the First Move

Saddled with backpacks, duffle bags, and pillows, the teens shuffle up to the table one by one to register for their weeklong meditation retreat. Their eyes flicker with hope and fear as they...

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A Road to Self-Compassion: In Honor of August as Metta Meditation Month

Throughout my life, I’ve always been viewed as the “selfless” one. The “people pleaser.” The “highly empathetic one,” the “ridiculously sensitive one,” the one who wears her heart on her sleeve and...

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Dharma Connect: Philadelphia Proclaims a Day of Kindness

Philadelphia -- long known as the City of Brotherly Love but more (in)famous recently as the city that destroyed a robot that had traveled safely throughout Canada and parts of  Europe -- will hold a...

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Daily Connect: Three Scientific Outcomes of Meditation

It seems like everyday there's another news story on the benefits of meditation, and how meditation causes physical changes to the brain.  But what do the changes signify?  Harvard neuroscientist Sara...

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Metta Month - An Ending and a Beginning

Back in June, at the beginning of the summer, IDP decided to offer a weekly Metta/Lovingkindness Meditation practice, on Fridays from 6-7pm. When planning the offering, I wondered if anyone would...

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How to love the scared and scary ones

How do you love someone who is scared and who scares you?I was reminded of this question, posed by Tsoknyi Rinpoche in his book "Open Heart, Open Mind," this week as I watched the Internet react to...

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Off the Cushion and Onto the Dance Floor

"It's a meditation," the dance instructor says, coaxing me to relax and follow him in the tango.read more

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Daily Connect: Mindfulness App Gets $30 Million in Funding

Headspace received $30 million in funding this week to expand their services.  In one press release, they were described as a "leading digital health and wellness media brand", though most of us know...

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You Are My Other Me

In southern Arizona, where I live, many people think that it’s illegal to give exhausted desert travelers water, food, and shelter. Go ahead and re-read that first sentence. read more

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Good Morning Monday

The person I call “Bernie” consists of many parts—limbs, organs, tissues, bones, and cells. If my right hand is gashed, my entire body will spring into action. My brain will think of ways to get care...

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The Most Worthwhile 5 Minutes You'll Spend All Day

It has never been more difficult to live in the moment. Many of us have lives so full of activities that we can hardly catch our breaths. We work long hours, sometimes on weekends, and have hectic...

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Embodying the Teachings: A Daylong Retreat

In our culture, we place a high emphasis on intellectual learning. Yet our personal growth seems to depend on how we translate what we read and hear into some deeper, possibly wordless understanding....

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Laurie Anderson takes on the Buddhist View of Death and Bardo in New Film

Laurie Anderson and her deceased husband, Lou Reed, were both students of the Tibetan Buddhist teacher, YongeyMingurRinpoche.  IDP Blog Writer, Nancy Thompson wrote a wonderful post here, describing...

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