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Why meditate?
Why meditate? When you sit still and watch your thoughts rise and fall, without commenting, without criticizing or editing, gradually your mind, which before was a no-fly zone, becomes your inner neighborhood, a place you like to visit, a clean, well-lit garden, free of fear and tension. Via Dharma Forest
Q&A on Today’s Chinese Moon Festival with Our Friend from Hangzhou
Today is one of China’s most important and widely celebrated holidays: Mid Autumn Festival, also known as Moon Festival. Families gather once darkness falls and sit together, looking at the moon and eating mooncakes with tea. They give thanks for the Fall harvest and for each other. Mooncakes are small in area but they’re rich […]
David Swenson – Ujjayi breathing and bandhas.
How Your Thoughts Program Your Cells
Some “Basic” Cellular Biology There are thousands upon thousands of receptors on each cell in our body. Each receptor is specific to one peptide, or protein. When we have feelings of anger, sadness, guilt, excitement, happiness or nervousness, each separate emotion releases its own flurry of neuropeptides. Those peptides surge through the body and connect […]