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Can Meditation Make Us Happier?

Photo E. Carton We all have an emotional thermostat. There is an emotional ‘set-point’ around which our daily mood swings. For some people, the setting is low and they experience mostly darker moods. Others have a higher set-point that allows them to experience sunnier moods. I’m lucky because my set-point is in the ‘happy’ range. [...]

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Do You Have to Crawl Throught the Desert to get Enlightened?

Photo by Amerune A Zen student asked me recently, “Why does it take so long attain enlightenment? Do we have to crawl through the desert to get there?” The problem of ‘attaining’ If you think of attaining something, the world breaks into two: on one side is the person who is striving to attain something, [...]

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Does Meditation Really Work?

Do you notice the benefits of meditation in your life? There is a big gap between the orderliness of retreats and the chaos of ordinary life. Take a peek into a Zen retreat you’ll see black mats and straight rows. People sit like rocks and every minute of the day is regulated from black dawn [...]

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