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Peeling Away the Promise of Desire

By Joseph Goldstein — 2019

We may call it different names—peace, or awakening, or enlightenment, even love—but what most of us are looking for is happiness: deep, abiding fulfillment and completion. The problem is that we’re looking for it in the wrong place.

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A Pathway to Your Sacred Self in an Age of Anxiety

Many of us are experiencing an awakening as we realize to whom we have given a fair amount of authority over our collective lives. Our global narrative has been amplified with some surreal impending atrocities, whether it is by a storm of nature or a storm of conscious or unconscious thinking.

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Sister Jenna
2017
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Buddhism and Psychotherapy: Interview With Dr. Miles Neale

Why are Buddhist concepts and techniques so popular lately?

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Jonathan S. Kaplan
2013
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Ask the Teachers: What Does it Mean to Understand Buddhism Through the Body?

Roxanne Dault, Meido Moore, and Lopön Charlotte Z. Rotterdam discuss what it means to understand Buddhism through the body — the heart of the Buddhist path.

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Lopön Charlotte Z. Rotterdam, Meido Moore, Roxanne Dault
2021
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Venerable Bhikkhu Analayo on the Satipatthana Sutta in Conversation with Phillip Moffitt

In April 2015 Venerable Bhikkhu Analayo — renowned German Buddhist monk, scholar, author, and teacher — led an 11-day meditation retreat for advanced practitioners at Spirit Rock centered around his comparative studies of the canonical versions of the Satipatthana Sutta (the Buddha's Four Foundations...

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Phillip Moffitt
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In the Moments of Non-Awakening

Larry Yang takes an honest look at what it means to be a dharma teacher who hasn’t been, and doesn’t imagine ever being, enlightened.

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Larry Yang
2021
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A Cross Cultural Experiential Perspective on Spiritual Awakening

There is an increasing need among mental health professionals, clergy, spiritual advisors and holistic practitioners to understand the normal experience of kundalini awakening across spiritual paths...

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Judith D. Wilcox
2008
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6 Ways to Invite a Spiritual Awakening to Transform Your Life

You can connect with your spirituality and awaken to the lessons that are meant for you—over and over again throughout your life—from the comfort of your own home.

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Danielle Dowling
2107
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When Sadness Rages Like Fire

Throughout his profound spiritual awakening, the great Tibetan yogi Shabkar experienced immense loss resulting in grief marked by raw pain, a sense of disorientation, sadness, and tears.

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Pema Khandro
2020
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10 Simple Principles of Spiritual Awakening

Spiritual awakening is not a goal or destination...it is a constant invitation to embrace yourself exactly as you are, in all your glorious imperfection.

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Jeff Foster
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Awakening Is a Destructive Process

Make no bones about it, awakening is not a walk in the park. It is a ride through hell. It is the tearing down of all of your cherished beliefs and everything you thought about yourself. There is no way around this.

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Uplift
2015
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