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A Path to Freedom

The eightfold path offers a method for awakening to the fragility of life and the precariousness of our future, as well as an ethical framework for living together in harmony in a flourishing world.
September 6, 2021
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Embracing Groundlessness

Through a dedicated mindfulness practice, we may find freedom in groundlessness - the ambiguity and uncertainty that is characteristic of all life.
September 4, 2021
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Wise Perspective: Seeing Things Clearly

Our perspective becomes the scaffolding for our practice, and at the same time, our practice helps us develop clearer understanding and wiser ways of relating with ourselves and the world around us.
August 30, 2021
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Mindfulness of Doubt

Mindfulness can help us find middle ground so that we might navigate the paradox of doubt with greater wisdom and less struggle.
August 13, 2021
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Adopting a Language of Interconnection, Reintegration and Transformation

Mindfulness can help us let go of the vernacular of violence we use in everyday conversation to a language of interconnection, reintegration and transformation - and in changing our words, we can change our minds.
August 10, 2021
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Honoring Our Humanity with Mindfulness

The dehumanization that can lead to mass violence and collective suffering might be mitigated by a paradigm shift - a change in the habitual ways we relate to ourselves and the world. Mindfulness can be a part of our rehumanization.
August 1, 2021
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Mindfulness of Arousal and Challenge

The beauty of mindfulness is that it can help us open to all kinds of life experiences under any circumstances, so that we might see things more clearly and respond more skillfully. But, in order to realize these more profound effects, we have to be willing and able to explore the more challenging aspects of our experience.
July 24, 2021
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A Journey with Mindfulness: Mindfulness and Transformation

MAM teacher, Tatiana Padron Perich, writes about her personal mindfulness journey and how her mindfulness teacher training experience helped expand and broaden her understanding.
July 22, 2021
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Being Human is Hard, Mindfulness Can Help

Being human is hard, but its also an opportunity. Mindfulness can help us capitalize on our natural inborn assets in order to make our own lives better and contribute to a thriving world.
July 13, 2021
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Mindfulness Cultivates Foundational Skills for Wellbeing

A consistent practice of mindfulness helps cultivate many of the fundamental skills and inner determinants of wellbeing, while countering harmful conditioning and unskillful habits.
July 2, 2021
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Mindfulness of Satiety

Mindfulness can help us divest ourselves from myths and harmful conditioning that leave us vulnerable to compulsive acquisitiveness, cultivate the skills to recognize when enough is enough, and respond with wisdom.
June 26, 2021
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Mindfulness for Equalizing Self and Others

Our individual preferences and unconscious biases can add up to a profound impact on our collective wellbeing. The mindfulness practices of equalizing self and others help us realize that each of us is no less and no more worthy than anyone else.
June 17, 2021
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How We Practice Mindfulness Matters

Mindfulness research is providing emerging evidence that different types of practices, the quality of practice, and the attitudes we assume as we engage in them, may result in differential effects.
June 5, 2021
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Facing Our Shadow Side with Mindfulness

How might mindfulness help us face the shadow side of humanity so that we can communicate skillfully across differences and work together to create a more just and peaceful world?
May 27, 2021
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Mindfulness and Determinants of Wellbeing

A consistent practice of mindfulness cultivates many of the inner determinants of wellbeing, resourcing us for the outer work of collective contribution toward human flourishing within a thriving world.
May 16, 2021
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Power With and the Magic of Emergence

Mindfulness teaches us to trust emergence, the magic of which can only happen when power is shared among individuals and groups.
May 12, 2021
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Mindfulness of Parallel Process in Activism

Mindfulness can help us identify a sort of "parallel process" that occurs in activism, making space for actions that match intentions and are more likely to result in beneficial outcomes.
May 6, 2021
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Mindfulness of Cultural Conditioning

Mindfulness can help us become more aware of our cultural conditioning and expand our choices for living in alignment with higher values and serving our collective wellbeing.
April 30, 2021
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