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4 Descrip­tors of the Way Life Is–the Bud­dha’s age-old wis­dom (the Four Noble Truths) is… 

Learn­ing flex­i­bil­i­ty  —  stop mak­ing excus­es for con­tin­u­ing to do what does­n’t work  —  is… 

3 riffs on relat­ing  —  ideas and con­cepts about explor­ing the depth of inti­ma­cy that… 

Bring peace‑a way to find your­self in a ground­ed and whole man­ner. It means giving… 

Great faith, great doubt, great effort  —  all lead to new ways of being. 

Hon­esty in Com­mu­ni­ca­tion  —  this is def­i­nite­ly a self-help project, as all you can do,… 

What Com­mit­ment Looks Like  —  we con­tin­ue our look at the actions nec­es­sary for a… 

Cre­at­ing and Main­tain­ing Rela­tion­ships that Work  —  rela­tion­ships that work don’t just hap­pen. You have to… 

Let­ting go of box­es: we all cat­e­go­rize, and some­times that’s help­ful, but exam­in­ing our… 

No One is Com­ing to res­cue you from the life you have cre­at­ed. It’s your… 

Here are 9 ideas to improve any rela­tion­ship, tak­en from my book, The. Best. Relationship.… 

There is a struc­ture to excel­lent part­ner­ships, which we call Ele­gant, Inti­mate Relating 

Syn­op­sis: rela­tion­ships need main­te­nance. There’s no magic–there’s com­mit­ment to a way of relating 

Drop­ping Dual­i­ty  —  On “Suc­cess” and “Fail­ure”  —  illu­sions, both. The sto­ries we tall ourselves… 

Mind, Med­i­ta­tion, Suf­fer­ing, Let­ting Go  —  it’s dif­fi­cult to let go of our own stories,… 

Pro­gres­sive Relax­ation Tech­nique  —  an oldie but a good­ie! The next few arti­cles will be… 

Aware­ness as com­pared to Non-aware­ness  —  not only is pay­ing atten­tion a chal­lenge, what we miss… 

Syn­op­sis: Zen Stick: some­times, we need a smack upside our heads, metaphor­i­cal­ly, of course. 

5 Key Con­cepts for Zen Liv­ing  —  I thought I’d write a “start here” article… 

Locat­ing Your­self  —  most define them­selves using lists. You just might be, only, what you enact.… 

Liv­ing in This End­less Moment means find­ing bal­ance, clar­i­ty and a sense of pur­pose and… 

10 Zen Prin­ci­ples to help you live a more calm and cen­tered life, as given… 

Being a Mir­ror is all about help­ing oth­ers to hear them­selves by reflect­ing back, without… 

Syn­op­sis: Relat­ing is a task that moves in one direc­tion  —  from you to your… 

Things Change When You Do  —  this is about is how we deal with events…