Prolonged Meditation Practice
Meditation is nice when it is done intermittently. It makes you feel good and has a calming effect on the body and mind. However,...
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Daniel Rodman
- Sep 23, 2019
- 3 min
Love Innate, Inspired, Efforted, Cultivated and Transcendent
Love has many phases and states. I would like to describe how our love can be innate, inspired, efforted, cultivated and transcendent....
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Daniel Rodman
- Sep 18, 2019
- 1 min
The Labyrinth
A man finds himself in the middle of a great labyrinth. Every turn he takes there is either traps or treasures. He travels this...
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Daniel Rodman
- Sep 16, 2019
- 2 min
Dying to the Transcendent
There is an experience in spiritual practice and particularly in deep meditative practice that is a pivotal transformation that takes...
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Daniel Rodman
- Sep 10, 2019
- 2 min
Spiritual Materialism
Spirituality is not for show, its not for status, its not for fame or for mere physical pleasure. When spirituality is used in some way...
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Daniel Rodman
- Sep 9, 2019
- 3 min
Stage Fright
Everyone knows to an extent the feeling of stage fright. That is to have anxiety about performing in front of others. Whether we...
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Daniel Rodman
- Sep 4, 2019
- 3 min
Comparing
When we compare we look at how two or more things are similar and/or different. Comparing can either make someone or something more...
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Daniel Rodman
- Aug 28, 2019
- 2 min
Praise and Blame
When we praise and blame we raise up or put down someone because of their actions. This is inevitably based on specific circumstances in...
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Daniel Rodman
- Aug 26, 2019
- 1 min
Boredom
Everyone feels bored at one point or another. Seems like there is just nothing to do. We can keep looking for more things to do, but in...
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Daniel Rodman
- Aug 21, 2019
- 1 min
Button Push Exercise
Everyone has something that pushes their buttons. Some things make you frustrated, angry. Some things can be a trigger for addiction or...
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Daniel Rodman
- Aug 19, 2019
- 2 min
Devotion
On the topic of devotion I speak of the type of devotion that is a giving of yourself to someone or something. Much like longing (see...
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Daniel Rodman
- Aug 14, 2019
- 3 min
Longing
Longing is a heartfelt desire to be united with someone or something, or to fulfill some goal or purpose. Longing is always a feeling of...
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Daniel Rodman
- Aug 12, 2019
- 2 min
Anatomy of Appreciation
There are many ways to appreciate things and people. I would like to offer an account of these ways based on grosser to subtler levels of...
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Daniel Rodman
- Aug 7, 2019
- 1 min
To See
To see, I notice the fog, a covering of clarity. I open my mouth, to sing, and the fog churns and dances a play of graceful forms. I open...
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Daniel Rodman
- Aug 5, 2019
- 3 min
The Limited Senses
It is easy to think that what we experience is the true reality, that what we see, hear, smell, taste, and touch is 100% accurate. What...
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Daniel Rodman
- Jul 31, 2019
- 2 min
Limitless Change
When we investigate the nature of the present moment we realize that it is in a constant state of change. The atoms around us are in a...
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Daniel Rodman
- Jul 28, 2019
- 3 min
Healing the Past
Negative experiences are inevitable in this world we live in. That we cannot change. What we can change, however, is how we relate to...
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Daniel Rodman
- Jul 24, 2019
- 3 min
Meaning in Space and Time
The meaning of things or their meaningfulness has a nature that is fully dependent on space and time, meaning it only happens in certain...
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Daniel Rodman
- Jul 21, 2019
- 3 min
The Layers of the Heart
Our emotional and spiritual heart is not straight forward. It has many dynamic layers that are very different from each other. There are...
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Daniel Rodman
- Jul 15, 2019
- 1 min
The One and the Many
The One was beyond words, until it said the first word: Itself. Then, thinking it was its word it thought the world. It said, “what a...
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