Category Archives: Buddhism

The Truth about So Many Things

Posted on June 1, 2012 by

First of all, I am interested in healing.  Why else would I rant on and on about psychotherapy and its ineffectiveness as a model?  I mean, outside of the fact that I’m a writer, and I object to famous psychotherapists … Continue reading →

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The Queen of Polish OR “I” Statements and Going Easy on the Stork’s Swan Song

Posted on May 22, 2012 by

I am suave, smooth.  I communicate elegantly.  In other words, our breakup with the Stork couples therapist (ongoing) started last night with a bit of, well, ahimsa.  And panache.  And f*&(ing “I” statements. We started the conversation like this: Me:  … Continue reading →

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Starting Over

Posted on May 16, 2012 by

Sometime in the last couple months I started thinking about the whole concept of fresh start, starting over, re-imagining myself, re-creating my life.  I was obsessively watching Netflix tv and got caught up in the show Break-Out Kings, which is … Continue reading →

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If I Do Yoga Am I Hindu?

Posted on May 16, 2012 by

Because let’s face it, yoga is a Hindu tradition.  A fact I’ve been in denial about for, well, an embarrassing amount of time. Of course, the denial helped with the simple fact that all I really know about Hinduism is … Continue reading →

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Clarity or What the ?

Posted on May 15, 2012 by

My partner told me that my last blog on Right Intention is hard to follow.  This makes perfect sense since I was working from a book that has the words “mental clarity” in the title.  Obviously, I need to be … Continue reading →

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Right Intention OR Back to Buddhism We Go

Posted on May 14, 2012 by

While my partner and I were in San Francisco, we did a day of let’s just see what happens.  It was my day to pick what we did, and I decided I didn’t want to plan. Mind you, I spent … Continue reading →

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More YOGA: Ahimsa or At Least I Crack Myself Up

Posted on April 28, 2012 by

Ahimsa, is the first of the yamas of yoga and Hinduism (rules for ethical conduct) and it means non-violence. I took my first yoga class with Patricia Walden in Cambridge a couple weeks ago, and she was leading off the … Continue reading →

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Inventing a Self

Posted on April 26, 2012 by

Sometimes I have so many conflicting thoughts simultaneously I find it completely overwhelming to develop an actual train of thought.  That’s what this subject is like. So, train #1.  I was doing this grief thing yesterday, and I ended up … Continue reading →

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Yoga, Yoga, Yoga and More Yoga or What Am I Doing?

Posted on April 24, 2012 by

I think it was in 1988 that I decided to listen to my gut.  Not for the first time, but I had a therapist, who was, get this, a yoga instructor, and all I did in therapy with her was … Continue reading →

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Eckhart Tolle or Give Me a Break New Age Everything

Posted on April 15, 2012 by

Today I woke up with some minor ambition to organize my books.  Meaning, since there are books piled in corners of my bedroom, my office, the living room, on the living room table, etc, I thought I’d move them around … Continue reading →

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