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The Human condition, Our Two Realities, Suffering, Struggle and our Hidden Wholeness

The Human condition, Our Two Realities, Suffering, Struggle and our Hidden Wholeness Buddha said: Life is suffering. Yes, human life, the human condition, is characterized by suffering. But, the Buddha did not just leave us with this first Nobel Truth. He went on to espouse three other Noble Truths: 2. That suffering has its causes […]

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How Mindfulness works – Emotion, Energy, the Brain and Body

Lucy Lopez

Some of our thoughts have such a strong impact on us because we have either SUPPRESSED or REINFORCED them. Think about it. It is estimated that we have between thirty to sixty thousand thoughts a day, (mostly repetitive). Why is it that most of them don’t bother us? Why is it that just some, perhaps one

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Why do we feel unhappy?

Lucy Lopez

It really boils down to this: We are not happy because life is not the way we want it to be. But why is that? Why is it that we are not happy with the way life is? There are two reasons for this. Firstly, we have forgotten that WE ARE LIFE. That, LIFE IS

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There is only Love and we are it

Lucy Lopez

There is only Love and you and I are it. Love is Life is God is Truth is Infinite Intelligence is the Source Field or Quantum Field is the Dao. The name may vary but the reality is the same. Love is the only and ultimate reality. Some of us will spend a lifetime recognizing

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Is this moment enough?

Lucy Lopez

If we observe ourselves as we go through our day, we’ll notice that there’s an underlying restlessness that we carry with us all the time or that seems to carry us all the time. When we’re doing something, we’ll be thinking of something else – something else that we should be doing or want to

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You are the blue sky not the clouds

Lucy Lopez

Think of meditation not as a pill for instant or short term relief though it might provide that. Think of meditation more like daily exercise whose immediate effects may be unattractive – ‘This feels hard, I’m not getting this right, My mind cannot stand still, It’s all over the place, This is making me more

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Have you learned to appreciate silence?

Lucy Lopez

Have you learned to appreciate silence? The kind of silence in which only the cicadas seem to be alive? When the slow drip from a tap is deafening? And when the loudest thing happening to you is the heaving of your chest? Have you learned to appreciate such silence? Have you learned to appreciate

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When miracles are commonplace

Lucy Lopez

Miracles are commonplace when our conditioned perception of reality is unhinged. When we are able to see that, while we walk a time-space bound reality, we are in fact of a reality that is fundamentally timeless and infinite. We can experience this timeless, infinite reality in meditation when we become fully present, when we

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Are you afraid to meditate?

Lucy Lopez

Some people are afraid to meditate because they believe that it makes them more anxious. It is true that for some, the initial practice of sitting still and watching their breath or the flow of thoughts. feelings and sensations can feel quite threatening. For the first time, they notice their physicality (or corporeality). For

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Go peacefully today

Lucy Lopez

Go peacefully today Leave the past where it belongs Stay here, now where you are always, eternally, infinitely Let each moment be the soft explosion of possibility drenched with the fullness of Life You are possibility in motion An unbounded field of Love It is the only truth worth remembering

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