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Boost Your Immune System through Relaxation and Meditation

In the midst of your life’s hustle and bustle, amidst stress and anxieties that seem to never end, you seek solace and balance. In this pursuit, you turn to relaxation techniques and meditation. Those ancient yet powerful practices that offer us a refuge of inner peace, and more over, boost our immune system. Meditation, oftenContinue reading “Boost Your Immune System through Relaxation and Meditation”

The Qualities You Need to Cultivate to Unleash Your Inner Buddha

The six perfections, also known as paramitas, are invaluable qualities in Buddhism that we can develop through our practice. These qualities represent the enlightened state, but they are also attainable in our everyday lives. In this post I provide you with a brief overview and encourage you to incorporate the cultivation of the six perfectionsContinue reading “The Qualities You Need to Cultivate to Unleash Your Inner Buddha”

The Illusory Dance of Dreams

As a practitioner on the path of Buddhism, I have come in deep contact with the profound interconnection between sleep, dreams, and awakening. When Prince Siddhartha Gautama, after attaining enlightenment, proclaimed with deep clarity, “I am awake” this pivotal moment gave rise to the term “Buddha,” which transcends a mere name and symbolizes the awakenedContinue reading “The Illusory Dance of Dreams”

My path towards greater alignment

( This blog article was originally published on the Golden Age Models blog, and has been re-edited here for the Sky Dancer World blog) Like with all significant transitions, I remember leaving lay life to pursue the life of a monastic as an initiation rite of sorts. My awakening heart was calling me out intoContinue reading “My path towards greater alignment”

སྒྲོལ་མའི་བསྟོད་པ། In Praise of Tara

Tara, also known as Drolma in Tibetan, is a Bodhisattva or Buddha of compassion in action, a protector who comes to our aid to relieve physical, emotional, and spiritual suffering. She is not like most of us human beings who, yes, can admit to her virtue of being a helper, but at the same time,Continue reading “སྒྲོལ་མའི་བསྟོད་པ། In Praise of Tara”

The Laughing Buddha

When I was little, I had this little colorful Buddha statue. It wasn’t a statue of the serene sitting Buddha, but rather a Buddha statue of what’s generally considered “the laughing Buddha,” usually represented as a fat laughing man standing up with his arms stretching towards the sky. I used to delightfully glance at himContinue reading “The Laughing Buddha”

In a changing world everything is possible

Enlightenment is sprung out of our willingness to consider what is broken, painful, and tragic as precious. Our broken, painful, and tragic stories are the heart of the matter —’no mud, no lotus’ as Ven.Thich Nhat Hanh has said, and ‘there is a crack in everything – that is how the light gets in,’ asContinue reading “In a changing world everything is possible”

Is that so?

A young girl in the village was pregnant. Her angry parents demanded to know who the father was. At first, there was a resistance to confess. Eventually, the anxious and embarrassed girl finally pointed to Hakuin, the Zen master whom everyone previously revered for living such a pure life. When the outraged parents confronted HakuinContinue reading “Is that so?”

Sati – Remembering Now

So, what is wrong with translating Sati as Mindfulness? Well, part of the early translations suggests that it has to do with remembering. So, what exactly are we supposed to remember? ‘Sati‘ – is the seventh acre of the Buddhist wheel called ‘the eightfold path.’ And in its completeness, the eightfold path includes Right view, right motivation,Continue reading “Sati – Remembering Now”