May 2011
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The Rules of Play
Adults at play.
Why, and I know this isn’t just me, does the phrase above come off as either silly, sexual or immature?
It’s none of those things (necessarily).
Children instinctively know how to play, according to the man who discovered that rats laugh, neuroscientist Jaak Panskepp. No one thinks child’s play sounds dirty. And apparently, the more children play, the more...
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Real Happiness Through Attention
I got some more of my Real Happiness on this evening with this uplifting podcast series from the Upaya Zen Center.
Sharon Salzberg and Joan Halifax talk about the cultivation of happiness and wisdom through unwavering attention and the capacity to sense suffering.
Suffering
Salzberg says suffering is key to happiness, that when we look at those habits of mind we’ve developed, we often...
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After
“After chopping off all the arms that reached out to me; after boarding up all the windows and doors; after filling all the pits with poisoned water; after building my house on a rock of a no, inaccessible to flattery and fear; after cutting out my tongue and eating it; after hurling handfuls of silence and monosyllables of scorn at my loves; after forgetting my name and the name of my birth...