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Why We Shouldn’t Push Away Feelings

November 5, 2019 by Colin Beavan Leave a Comment

I’ve been thinking about how so many of us find it hard to be in the presence of our feelings. We believe that we should work to make them go away when we have them. Like they are demons to be exorcised. And sometimes, because we find our own feelings uncomfortable we find the feelings […]

Filed Under: General Interest

Can Waking Up Save The Amazon?

November 5, 2019 by Colin Beavan Leave a Comment

The Amazon and Congo, if you didn’t know, are so important, first, because they are simply precious but, also, because such forests absorb carbon dioxide and emit oxygen. Maintaining robust forests is part of the answer to climate change. That so much of the Amazon and the Congo is ablaze is scary and worrying and […]

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How Awe Turns Sadness Into Action

November 5, 2019 by Colin Beavan Leave a Comment

I was walking through the amazing Washington Square Park on my way to lead a meditation for climate activists the other day, and I was feeling so amazed with the trees and the grass and the park. I felt joy. But then I thought, How is it right to feel joy right now when what is […]

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How Red Faced Paddy Changed My Life

November 5, 2019 by Colin Beavan Leave a Comment

There is a story I tell about an encounter I had many years ago with a man we called Red Faced Paddy. It was this encounter that taught me that my presumed “superior” understanding or enlightenment never gives me the right to judge–it only gives me the responsibility to help. Anyway, Red Faced Paddy and […]

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On The Night Mom Died

July 10, 2019 by Colin Beavan Leave a Comment

I call this one, “Full Moon On The Water On The Night My Mom Died.”

Filed Under: Relationships, Family and Friendship Tagged With: Death, dying, mom, parent

Eulogy To My Mom

July 10, 2019 by Colin Beavan Leave a Comment

Here is a poem that comes from the funeral ceremony of the Zen tradition of which I am a part. It is called The Human Route Coming empty-handed, going empty-handed – that is human.When you are born, where do you come from?When you die, where do you go?Life is like a floating cloud which appears.Death […]

Filed Under: Relationships, Family and Friendship Tagged With: Death, dying, mom, parent

Yes, I’m a quitter

July 10, 2019 by Colin Beavan Leave a Comment

If you want a life of meaning and purpose, you have to be willing to quit what feels meaningless and purposeless. But if you quit things that are meaningless and purposeless, you leave room for things that have meaning and purpose. Do you think it’s wrong to quit? I used to. I stayed in relationships […]

Filed Under: Happiness and Life Satisfaction, Purpose and Meaning

After Mom’s Death

July 10, 2019 by Colin Beavan Leave a Comment

So when my mom was dying, I’d go and visit her in the morning and then take a break and then go visit her in the afternoon again. One day, I was listening to Bonnie Raitt I Can’t Make You Love Me in the car on the way back to her hospital bed. I got […]

Filed Under: Relationships, Family and Friendship Tagged With: Death, dying, mom, parent

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