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Author: Gloria Green

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SnowFlower Sun January 2023

Posted on: December 31, 2022 Last updated on: December 31, 2022 Written by: Gloria Green Comments: 0
Our Body Doesn’t Lie a dharma talk by Lisa Gleuck Early on, I’d sit on my zafu and soar freely through space. (At least on a good day.) Lovely wordlessness: no boundaries, no worries, and no stress.  The trouble was,…
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SnowFlower Sun April 2021

Posted on: March 29, 2021 Last updated on: March 29, 2021 Written by: Gloria Green Comments: 0
Growing Compassion, Attention, Presence: the 4th Mindfulness Training From a talk by Walt Keough in 2012 Loving speech and deep listening are broader, wider practices than might first appear. Practice and effort are needed just to become ready to listen…
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SnowFlower Sun March 2021

Posted on: February 26, 2021 Last updated on: February 26, 2021 Written by: Gloria Green Comments: 0
Finding the Positives from a talk by Don Katz-March/April 2013 If, as the Second Mindfulness Training, “True Happiness”, tells us, “we already have more than enough conditions to be happy,” the questions becomes how do we learn to notice the…
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SnowFlower Sun February 2021

Posted on: January 26, 2021 Last updated on: January 26, 2021 Written by: Gloria Green Comments: 2
SEEDS FOR A BOUNDLESS LIFE – Part 1 By Zenkei Blanche Hartman; Excerpts by Susan O’Leary “When we sit in meditation, we can see the tranquil world despite the chaos that is present in and around our lives. The seeds…
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SnowFlower Sun January 2021

Posted on: December 28, 2020 Last updated on: December 28, 2020 Written by: Gloria Green Comments: 0
MY MASTER’S ROBE by Thich Nhat Hanh My monastic ordination at Tu Hieu temple was scheduled for 4:00 o’clock in the morning. The night before, after chanting practice, I saw my teacher (Master Thanh Qui, of Tu Hieu Temple) sitting…
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SnowFlower Sun December 2020

Posted on: November 27, 2020 Last updated on: November 27, 2020 Written by: Gloria Green Comments: 0
Awakening Joy through the Practice of Gratitude from a talk by Mary Michal in January of 2015 I used to think that joy was a feeling that I would either experience or not, and the same with gratitude. I now…
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SnowFlower Sun November 2020

Posted on: October 28, 2020 Last updated on: October 31, 2020 Written by: Gloria Green Comments: 0
Discourse on the Dharma Seal from a talk by Jim Roseberry (Spring, 2013) What is the essence of this discourse in which the Buddha identified the Dharma Seal as the Three Doors of Liberation: emptiness, signlessness, wishlessness. To answer this,…
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SnowFlower Sun October 2020

Posted on: September 27, 2020 Last updated on: September 27, 2020 Written by: Gloria Green Comments: 0
Tonglen Loving Kindness from a talk by Cheri Maples Tonglen is a loving kindness practice that has its roots in the Tibetan tradition. Interestingly, it is actually the reverse of the loving kindness meditation we usually practice. Normally we breathe…
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SnowFlower Sun September 2020

Posted on: August 27, 2020 Last updated on: August 27, 2020 Written by: Gloria Green Comments: 0
APRANIHITI – the Third Door of Liberation from a talk by Amy Krohn Thay gives us many touchstones to rely on in our practice, so beautifully pulling profound concepts into simple explanations, and then encouraging us to practice and work…
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SnowFlower Sun August 2020

Posted on: July 26, 2020 Last updated on: July 29, 2020 Written by: Gloria Green Comments: 0
Practicing  Compassion  Amid  Chaos  &  Illusion from a talk by Jim Roseberry  in 2016 The term ‘compassion’ maintains an exalted status in Buddhism. Avalokiteshvara (or Kwan Yin) is revered as the Bodhisattva of Compassion. Along with loving kindness, joy, and equanimity, compassion is…
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