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Blog postThe meditation begins at 6:15 Audio only version is here. Hello, wonderful Open Heart Project. How is your heart these days? Are you feeling good about love, confused by love, saddened by love, all/none of the above? Before today’s meditation and in honor of Valentine’s Day, I share with you the Four Noble Truths of... READ MORE
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Hello, wonderful Open Heart Project.
Before today’s sit, I want to share with you something I have spoken about and written on many times. Perhaps you have heard it before! If so, please skip right to the meditation. If not, have a listen to this interesting teaching on how you can arrange your world so that you feel more confident in yourself. I have been practicing these steps for many years (not perfectly!!) an -
Blog postThe meditation begins at 6:45 Audio only version is here. Hello, wonderful Open Heart Project. I recently read an interview with Twitter co-founder Jack Dorsey who had just returned from a 10-day silent meditation retreat. That is not an easy thing to do! It takes a lot of commitment and courage. However, the way he... READ MORE
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Blog postWelcome to the Ask Susan podcast. This is episode #24. I’m really excited to be able to offer this to you. Each week, I will answer a question about spirituality and meditation practice. Please click here to ask me your question. Torsten from Berlin raises an excellent question, one for the ages. If mindfulness... READ MORE
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May it bring you peace.
Love, Susan xo
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Blog postWelcome to the Ask Susan podcast. This is episode #23. I’m really excited to be able to offer this to you. Each week, I will answer a question about spirituality and meditation practice. Please click here to ask me your question. Katia’s question is about figuring out the balance between kindness toward others and... READ MORE
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Blog postI’m a 20+ year practitioner in the Shambhala Buddhist lineage, a Tibetan Vajrayana tradition. It is based on teachings brought to the West by Chogyam Trungpa Rinpoche. There are things in these two seemingly straightforward sentences that might piss some people off. For example, in my community, there are arguments about whether it is okay... READ MORE
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Welcome to the Ask Susan podcast. This is episode #21. I’m really excited to be able to offer this to you. Each week, I will answer a question about spirituality and meditation practice. Please click here to ask me your question.
This week’s question is truly fascinating. Our questioner has discovered that since beginning a meditation practice, his mind keeps trying to stay awake, even as his body is trying to fall asleep. Interesting! Irritating! All of the -
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Welcome to the Ask Susan podcast. This is episode #20. I’m really excited to be able to offer this to you. Each week, I will answer a question about spirituality and meditation practice. Please click here to ask me your question.
This week’s excellent question is about equanimity. Our lovely questioner wants to know how she can remain equanimous when she investigates emotional pain. A key question for us all.
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Welcome to the Ask Susan podcast. This is episode #19. I’m really excited to be able to offer this to you. Each week, I will answer a question about spirituality and meditation practice. Please click here to ask me your question.
Ashley is planning to come on one of my retreats. YAY! This is her first-ever meditation retreat and she was wondering what she could do to prepare.
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Welcome to the Ask Susan podcast. This is episode #18. I’m really excited to be able to offer this to you. Each week, I will answer a question about spirituality and meditation practice. Please click here to ask me your question.
I love, love, love this question from Paula. Thank you, Paula! She has been meditating for several years but still finds the practice to be boring. It’s uncomfortable. Should she exchange the breath for another object of meditation? -
Blog postWelcome to the Ask Susan podcast. This is episode #17. I’m really excited to be able to offer this to you. Each week, I will answer a question about spirituality and meditation practice. Please click here to ask me your question. Hillary is accustomed to an eyes-open practice (as I teach it). But she... READ MORE
The post I find meditation to be irritating! My eyes feel dry and uncomfortable. Can I still get the benefits of wakefulness if I meditate with my eyes clo -
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Welcome to the Ask Susan podcast. This is episode #16. I’m really excited to be able to offer this to you. Each week, I will answer a question about spirituality and meditation practice. Please click here to ask me your question.
This week’s question is about becoming a Buddhist. The ceremony for doing so is called “taking refuge”. What does this even mean? Our questioner wondered how I knew this was the right thing to do and what it meant.
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Welcome to the Ask Susan podcast. This is episode #15. I’m really excited to be able to offer this to you. Each week, I will answer a question about spirituality and meditation practice. Please click here to ask me your question.
Victoria from England is really interested in two different but equally meaningful spiritual practice. How important is it to focus on one? Spoiler alert: My answer is more related to the world of dating than dharma…
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Blog postJust back from teaching two retreats in France and am filled with gratitude for the participants and for the great good fortune of being a teacher. Reposting this from 2015 as much of it still stands.
I just finished teaching two retreats at Dechen Choling Retreat Center in France, “The Open Heart Retreat” followed by “Fearless Creativity: A Meditation and Writing Retreat.” On the last day of the last program, a student kindly asked what it felt like for me when a retreat was ove -
Blog post(Parts of this piece were published previously, but as our wedding anniversary approaches, I felt compelled to update it.) Next month, my partner and I celebrate our 19th wedding anniversary. Nineteen years. How the hell did that happen?! As we get ready to celebrate nearly two decades of wedded bliss, (and also of wedded hell,... READ MORE
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Blog postWelcome to the Ask Susan podcast. This is episode #14. I’m really excited to be able to offer this to you. Each week, I will answer a question about spirituality and meditation practice. Please click here to ask me your question. Fiona from Australia wonders what is going on when she feels a mix... READ MORE
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Blog postWelcome to the Ask Susan podcast. This is episode #13. I’m really excited to be able to offer this to you. Each week, I will answer a question about spirituality and meditation practice. Please click here to ask me your question. This week’s question comes from Edith in Scotland. She is curious about the... READ MORE
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Blog postEven though Buddhism is often associated with ascetic practices done by people in robes, as a 20+ year practitioner, it has been useful to apply core Buddhist teachings to my love life. Buddhist practice and study were helpful when I fell in love, got my heart broken, and, now, in marriage.
In a recent post, I offered a way to look at the basis of all Buddhist philosophy, the Four Noble Truths, when applied to love. The Four Noble Truths of Love* are:
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Blog postWelcome to the Ask Susan podcast. This is episode #12. I’m really excited to be able to offer this to you. Each week, I will answer a question about spirituality and meditation practice. Please click here to ask me your question. Fran participated in the Open Heart Project’s 21-Day meditation challenge and was good... READ MORE
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Welcome to the Ask Susan podcast. This is episode #11. I’m really excited to be able to offer this to you. Each week, I will answer a question about spirituality and meditation practice. Please click here to ask me your question.
Claudia’s meditation practice was going really well…until she developed tinnitus. Is it possible to meditate on your breath when all you notice is the ringing in your ears? Well, no. And yes. In this week’s podcast episode, I explai -
Blog postEarlier this week, I posted about applying the wisdom of Buddhism to romantic relationships. Is it even possible? Advisable? As a Buddhist and a wife, I would say yes.
Relationships have periods of closeness and distance and no one can really tell you what governs their coming and going. It’s a mystery. During one such period of distance with my husband, I thought we might be through. No matter how hard we tried to regain closeness, we clashed. Every conversation turned into a fight. -
Blog postMy 19th wedding anniversary is coming up next month. HOLY CRAP. I never in a million years imagined that I would be with one person for this long. Our marriage has been more than I could have hoped for but nothing I would ever have expected.
Like most of us, when I was young, I dreamed of finding the right relationship. The definition of “right” changed over the years but the longing to love and be loved did not. Still, when it came to romance, all I could imagine was Part O -
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Welcome to the Ask Susan podcast. This is episode #10. I’m really excited to be able to offer this to you. Each week, I will answer a question about spirituality and meditation practice. Please click here to ask me your question.
This week’s questioner has struggled with feelings of betrayal and abandonment. One of the tenets of Buddhism is that all beings, deep down, are basically good. How can she ever trust this, given what she’s experienced?
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Blog postWelcome to the Ask Susan podcast. This is episode #9. I’m really excited to be able to offer this to you. Each week, I will answer a question about spirituality and meditation practice. Please click here to ask me your question. This week’s question is about deciding on a particular technique. Is it necessary?... READ MORE
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Blog postWelcome to the Ask Susan podcast. I’m really excited to be able to offer this to you. Each week, I will answer a question about spirituality and meditation practice. Please click here to ask me your question. Our practice teaches us how to remain present…but we still have to make pragmatic and skillful choices... READ MORE
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Welcome to the Ask Susan podcast. I’m really excited to be able to offer this to you. Each week, I will answer a question about spirituality and meditation practice. Please click here to ask me your question.
In this week’s episode, our caller reports that her meditation practice brings her face-to-face with difficult emotions, which she was taught to repress as she grew up. She is looking for recommendations about how (or if) to stay with negative emotions during meditat -
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Welcome to the Ask Susan podcast. I’m really excited to be able to offer this to you. Each week, I will answer a question about spirituality and meditation practice. Please click here to ask me your question.
This week’s Ask Susan question is a very practical one! When Marsha sits down to practice, her “feet go dead.” For all the spiritual and psychological benefits of meditation, it is still true that irritating physical things happen like feet going numb, shoulders star -
Blog postWelcome to the Ask Susan podcast. I’m really excited to be able to offer this to you. Each week, I will answer a question about spirituality and meditation practice. Please click here to ask me your question. This week’s excellent question is about meditation during times of great upset. When we are angry, sad,... READ MORE
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Welcome to the Ask Susan podcast. I’m really excited to be able to offer this to you. Each week, I will answer a question about spirituality and meditation practice. Please click here to ask me your question.
This week the question is about showing compassion for others and also protecting our own boundaries, which is an excellent point to consider. We are trained to be giving and kind. But is this always appropriate? What about situations and individuals that take advant -
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Welcome to the Ask Susan podcast. I’m really excited to be able to offer this to you. Each week, I will answer a question about spirituality and meditation practice. Please click here to ask me your question.
This week’s question comes from a listener in Amsterdam. The question is What is meant by basic goodness?” Basic Goodness is the notion that all beings (ALL) are absolutely worthy, whole, and decent. How can this be? Sure, some people… But what about all the terrible -
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Welcome to the Ask Susan podcast. I’m really excited to be able to offer this to you. Each week, I will answer a question about spirituality and meditation practice. Please click here to ask me your question.
This week’s question is one many of us share. It is about discovering deeper wells of patience and kindness through our practice and then becoming disillusioned with some of the people in our life who are not willing or able to deepen in this way. What to do?
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Welcome to the Ask Susan podcast! I’m really excited to be able to offer this to you. Each week, I will answer a question about spirituality and meditation practice. Please click here to ask me your question.
Our first episode answers a question from Lisa, How do I stay focused during my meditation? How can my mind be more focused on the meditation and less focused on my monkey-mind?
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Blog postWhen you think of spirituality, you might call to mind a framework or set of rules that show you the way to inner peace, to end your suffering (and possibly even avoid death), is to be good. On the darker end of the spectrum, however, behavior is often driven by a fear of consequences (of... READ MORE
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Blog postSince the presidential election, I have felt called to do more. To get involved with organizations that stand for the values I hold dear, to call my elected officials to give them a piece of my mind (or at least read one of the suggested scripts from Facebook), to march and rail and educate myself... READ MORE
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Blog postIn Part 1 I talked about the top five benefits of meditating when you’re a mom. In Part
2, I discuss the major obstacles and how to overcome them.
There are plenty of barriers to creating and sustaining a meditation practice for any
of us, but when your life centers on caring for small humans, that ups the ante. In
particular, I see five big blocks standing in the way of moms who want to meditate:
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Blog postWhen my son was 10 months old, he already had 8 front teeth and an appetite to match. Without molars, however, he could literally bite off more than he could chew. Nevertheless, anything that neared our mouths was exactly what he wanted. One afternoon, at a bistro with my mom, that anything was a hunk... READ MORE
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Blog postHello, dear, brave warriors. I want to share with you a piece I wrote for Lion’s Roar on November 9, called “Don’t Bite the Hook: Five Things to Remember Post-Election.”
As a community of practitioners, now is the time to put our practice to work as the foundation for bravely standing up for what is right without losing a sense of connection to each other. No matter what. It is a very, very tall challenge. We can do it.
Here is an excerpt:
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Blog postI woke up at 3:30 this morning and made one up out of a longing to live in a world that makes sense to me. Before I even got out of bed, I decided that I want a third party that will take us in the direction we need to go to save our Democracy... READ MORE
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Blog postOne could say that many of the world’s ills are rooted in fear. This is a pretty ordinary observation. If you watch a scary movie at night, you hear the noises in your home as ominous. If you don’t, they aren’t. Fear changes the way we perceive the world around us. On this day just... READ MORE
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Blog postIn a recent post, I wrote about my choice to respond to hateful comments even though the general consensus is to delete. Go back and read it if you like, but you don’t have to. Here are some additional thoughts on how one might go about doing this without creating more insanity. What usually happens is... READ MORE
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Blog postAs a writer, blogger, Buddhist teacher, and self-employed person who depends on her web presence for all sorts of reasons, I have often heard this admonition: Ignore flamers. Don’t respond to anyone who wants to fight with you or challenge your position unless they are polite and measured. Do not react to aggression, ridicule, shaming,... READ MORE
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Blog postIt has been a crazy, painful election season here in the United States and we know that people all over the world have been feeling it too. No matter what “side” you are on, there has been so much chaos, vitriol, and aggression. On November 9th, it will be time to move forward. Can we find a way to be on the same side, including everything we agree and disagree on? This may seem impossible. Maybe it is. But with the practice of Loving Kindness meditation, we can “make the impossib
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Blog postWithin the first few nutrition therapy sessions with a new client, I inevitably ask her (or him) to do something that seems impossible: to stay in the icky, fearsome, claustrophobic space between having a painful emotion and automatically reacting to it by overeating. This might not sound like much, but to someone struggling with emotional... READ MORE
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Blog postA meditation teacher and award-winning author provides guidance on readers’ real-life problems. Here is her advice on domestic distress. Dear Susan, My boyfriend of 10 years now is so rude to me. He barks orders and isn’t sexually interested anymore and complains about all that I do. I feel worthless. What should I do? Dear... READ MORE
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Blog postA meditation teacher and award-winning author provides guidance on readers’ real-life problems. Here is her advice on what to do when you’re spiritually disconnected from your spouse. Dear Susan, Four years ago something changed in me. I woke up feeling electrical. Full of energy. I saw things different, knowledge of things I don’t know came... READ MORE
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Blog postA meditation teacher and award-winning author provides guidance on readers’ real-life problems. Here is her advice on understanding and resolving anger. Dear Susan, How does one let go of anger—not deep-rooted anger but anger over everyday trivial things? How can I learn to really let go of things that don’t matter in my life? Too... READ MORE
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Blog postA meditation teacher and award-winning author provides guidance on readers’ real-life problems. Here is her advice on dealing with loss. Dear Susan,
It has been 11 years since my late husband’s tragic death, I have since remarried, but I am missing my late husband greatly. I still miss him very much. How can I fully move on with my life and feel happy?
Dear Friend,
I am so sorry for your loss. To lose a loved one is awful, but when the death is also trag -
Blog postDuring this election cycle in the US, I find tremendous cause for hate. Spoiler alert: I HATE Donald Trump—hate him with a passion I would otherwise reserve for terrorists, power-mongers, fundamentalists of any stripe, baby slappers, and puppy murderers. HATE. I fucking hate that guy. He is a liar. A charlatan. A cheat. Someone who... READ MORE
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