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Happiness

June 28, 2013
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Happiness

~Deborah Warren

 

You think of it as a summer that’s somewhere else,
where the insects are rubies and emeralds in the trees,
flitting through hymns you’ll be able to hear–tomorrow,
where petals quiver out on the air like flames.
And plumed birds flash around it, scarlet peacocks
waiting there, tricked out for your arrival:
Music and beauty;  that’s what you want from it.

 

What it is is the opposite of that.
It’s here already, here in your local April–
what did you picture? A bauble from the sun?
A star come down and planted in a garden
(up the road) and even at noon the dew
hanging like beads of heaven on its leaves?
No. It’s more like burdock, say, or vetch.

 

You want it to be the color of sherbet;  strange;
a tulip in blue or melons with violet flesh,
or a tree with arpeggios where the fruit should be,
tended by gods who amuse you while you eat–
who fan it with gold-hinged wings and delicious antics;
sweeter, really, than you can believe.  Instead,
it’s plain–it’s too plain even to be noticed,
as plain as the grass you’re walking in today.

 

This poem is a profound inquiry into mind, desire and being present and aware of our reality.  These exact themes are explored in my new online course, The Four Noble Truths.  What is not offered in the poem above is a method for dealing with the suffering that arises in the difference between what we desire and what happens.  This suffering from the desire for things to be any other way than how they actually are is a shared human experience.  The Four Noble Truths course is a “book club style” online course that provides a reading guide to Phillip Moffitt’s beautiful and insightful book, Dancing with Life and worksheets and meditations to help you bring these insights into your practice and daily life.  The tuition for this 5-week course is $25.  If you are looking for a meaningful summer read and a way to create or re-inspire a daily meditation practice, please consider joining this supportive and intelligent book club community.

Here is more information on how this unique book club style course came to be:

FREE GUIDED MEDITATION

And, I hope you will either join me LIVE or listen to the recording of a guided meditation on interdependence.  The live guided meditation is on Monday, July 1st from 7:30 to 8:30 pm.  It is FREE.  Completely FREE with no registration or strings attached.  Due to space limitations, I highly recommend showing up for the call at least 5-minutes before it is supposed to begin.  Absolutely no experience with yoga or meditation is required.  Just get comfortable, sit back, listen and relax!  Here is the link to the event page: http://instantteleseminar.com/?eventid=43192956

SIGN-UP

Every week I send out love notes to everyone on my mailing list.  Yes, that’s right.  Love notes.  The kind that make you all excited and a little giggly and nervous because you just can’t wait to open them and see what’s inside!  Of course, you will also have access to exclusive meditation and yoga events and get the first notification on new programs and projects.  And, as a little treat, I will also send you a mini-booklet of short meditations that you can do right now to feel less stress.


Interdependence Meditation

June 20, 2013
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Guided Meditation on Interdependence

 

In honor of Independence Day, I have decided to host a guided meditation on interdependence that you can experience from anywhere by calling-in on your phone.  This will be a live guided meditation experience.  All you need to do is dial-in to the conference call and then put your phone on speaker, get comfortable and enjoy the meditation session.  It doesn’t matter if you fall asleep and start snoring because the callers are muted.  You can even listen as you wash dishes or take a bath.  I am requesting a $10 karmic offering for the meditation, but payment is not required. There is a payment button below the sign-up if you do wish to make an offering for the meditation.

Date:

Monday, July 1, 2013
Time:

8:30 pm Introduction and basic meditation instructions for beginners
8:45-9:15 pm Guided Meditation
9:15-9:25 pm Closing (all times are Eastern USA)
Access Code:

Sign-up below and you will receive an e-mail with the dial-in number and access code on Friday, June 28th

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NEW Online Meditation Course

June 13, 2013
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Four Noble Truths: Insights and Meditations

In this five-week online course, we will explore the Four Noble Truths of Buddhism through Phillip Moffitt’s book, “Dancing with Life: Buddhist Insights for Finding Meaning and Joy in the Face of Suffering.”  The course includes guided required reading of this text and instruction in a variety of mindful meditations that help build compassion and insight.  Introductory tuition $25.

You can start the course at ANY time and have immediate access to the first unit upon enrollment.  You have five weeks to take the course from the date you start.  There is no schedule to keep to or required group activities.  Read at your own pace and engage with the videos, worksheets and guided meditations in whatever way is most helpful for you.  No grades.  No pressure.  No requirements.

This course is for you if:tangka

  • You want to feel less anxiety, stress and depression
  • You want to learn more about fundamental concepts in Buddhism
  • You need a flexible program that allows you to work at your convenience
  • You wish to increase your capacity for compassion

This course is for yoga and meditation students of all levels who want to know more about Buddhism and wish to learn metta meditation techniques to either start or refresh a daily meditation practice.  This is an intellectual, personal and shared journey into meditation practices that are inspired by insights related to the Four Noble Truths.  These are secular practices that can be incorporated into even the most busy lifestyle.

Dr. Dean Ornish has described the core textbook for this online course as, “…a profound book about the relationship between happiness and suffering.  It is filled with wisdom about how to live a more effective and satisfying life.  I recommend it for anyone who is struggling with change in their lives.” (From the back cover)

Do you want to improve the quality of your health on your own time, at your own pace and in the comfort of your home, office or local coffee shop or park?

Do you need an affordable meditation program that doesn’t require you to also pay for transportation, childcare, meals and housing?

Are you looking for new inspiration and meaning for your existing practice?  Are you a yoga or meditation teacher that wants to incorporate more meditation in your own practice and your teaching?  

Do not delay!  You will learn simple techniques for relieving stress, tension and anxiety on the very first day of the course—even before you read one word of the core text!

Love Letter Thursday 2.28.13

February 28, 2013
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28.2.13
Pittsburgh, PA

I want to live in a world where everyone believes that each new day represents a completely new opportunity.  It really breaks my heart when I talk with my friends, family or students and they feel as though their future has been determined by the mistakes, adversity or experiences of their past.  I see so many of us feeling stuck and in the feeling place of lacking the velocity to bring ourselves out of a trajectory that has us on the wrong track, but we feel like we just aren’t the “type of person” that makes changes “like that” or perhaps we feel doomed to be just like ______________(fill in the blank with the name of some relative).  Sometimes, it is just so hard to see around the obstacles and challenges in our life.

I want you to feel powerful in the face of change and adversity.  

So, I’ve created, just for you, a sweet meditation practice where you take a little bit of time (an hour and fifteen minutes to be exact) to help you learn a practice that will ease any anxiety you are experiencing around change and obstacles in your life.   This practice, which can be done by everyone (no experience, flexibility, sense of inner peace required), is a combination of breathing, hand mudra (a yoga pose for your hands) and visualization.

Right now I want you to go to this private little space on my website, enter the password JEWEL and then follow the directions to RSVP for a meditation practice that will put you in touch with infinity.

It all begins right now (because this moment is the most important moment of all)!  See you on SUNDAY!

With all my love,

Sharon

“When I was a Boy Scout, we played a game when new Scouts joined the troop. We lined up chairs in a pattern, creating an obstacle course through which the new Scouts, blindfolded, were supposed to maneuver. The Scoutmaster gave them a few moments to study the pattern before our adventure began. But as soon as the victims were blindfolded, the rest of us quietly removed the chairs. I think life is like this game. Perhaps we spend our lives avoiding obstacles we have created for ourselves and in reality exist only in our minds. We’re afraid to apply for that job, take violin lessons, learn a foreign language, call an old friend, write our Congressman – whatever it is that we would really like to do but don’t because of perceived obstacles. Don’t avoid any chairs until you run smack into one. And if you do, at least you’ll have a place to sit down.”

Pierce Vincent Eckhart


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