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The Labyrinth as a Walking Meditation
Meditation can be frustrating, with physical discomfort and constant, intrusive thoughts. Walking a labyrinth can be a wonderful walking meditation.
Follow His Instructions for Health
"It means you have a relationship with your own health, as well as with your Healer. You are either going to pay attention to your health, your Healer and His instructions for health and healing, or you are not."
The Impermanence of Emotions
"The truth is, we all go through cycles of emotions and eventually return to neutral. We then remain in a neutral state of equilibrium until some stimulus acts on us again, and then we feel an emotion until it too fades away and we return to neutral again."
A Pilgrimage: Making Sense of a Labyrinth Walk
When a labyrinth is walked with even a small amount of direction, it becomes a powerful field for self-discovery, transformation, spiritual deepening, processing grief, relieving stress, and finding clarity.
The Power of Breath to Calm
When life goes sideways on you, it's helpful to remember that one of the most powerful tools we have to affect many layers of our health is already happening within us.
That Lonely Spell
The author recalls a period of loneliness long ago—a feeling that has come back, again, after decades.
Being Grounded in an Ungrounded World
Being connected to life. Returning home to yourself. Serving others. You were made for this awakening. Get grounded!
Developing Self-Forgiveness and Self-Compassion as a Survivor of Child Sexual Abuse
"Tell someone you were sexually abused as a child and soon the word 'forgiveness' pops up. 'Have you forgiven your abusers?' the curious predictably ask. Why does this concern, I wonder, supersede others?"
Honoring our Interdependence
In the Soto Zen tradition, emphasis is placed on ethical or mindful acts in everyday practice. This Earth Day practice held at Green Gulch Farm and Zen Center in Northern California is offered to benefit all beings.
Poem: Tell Me How The World Ends
The poems and prose in Amanda Torroni's new book, Stargazing at Noon, unfold in moon phases, beginning with a fullness, then purging. This poem, Tell me How the World Ends, is from the crescent phase.
