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2025-03-04T08:46:00-08:00

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The Bible No One Spoke About: A Family’s Silent Faith

Last updated on: March 4, 2025 at 8:46 am By John Buchanan

A mysterious family Bible, unspoken faith, and a journey from curiosity to Buddhism-exploring the unseen influences shaping a spiritual path Read more

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2025-02-06T11:36:21-08:00

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How Uncertainty Can Transform Your Life in 2025

Last updated on: February 6, 2025 at 11:36 am By John Buchanan

Embracing Uncertainty: A New Year’s Resolution for the Brave As 2025 approaches, the tradition of resolutions resurfaces. People want to transform. But how? We pledge to shed a few pounds, adopt healthier habits, or embark on self-improvement. These goals are helpful, of course, but let me ask you this: how often do these resolutions come from a place of certainty? A belief that we can plan, predict, and control the future to achieve some desired outcome? What if, instead of... Read more

2024-03-25T08:43:56-07:00

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Unveiling Your Mental Brilliance: A Journey to Enlightenment

Last updated on: March 25, 2024 at 8:43 am By John Buchanan

I hope that by reading this series of posts, you get to know me a little and perhaps get some excitement about your own meditative path or start one if you haven’t. I hope to show you that meditation is not a straight path. It travels like water. Sometimes, it winds and wanders like a slow river in a flatland; other times, it rushes through a mountain drop teeming with tree trunks and boulders. Rarely is it a straight shot like a waterfall. But one way or another, it all flows to the vast ocean and the limitless horizon where liberation awaits. Read more

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2025-02-06T11:26:17-08:00

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What Do Buddhists Do During Christmas?

Last updated on: February 6, 2025 at 11:26 am By John Buchanan

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Celebrating the Life of Two Bodhisattvas What do Buddhists do during Christmas? They celebrate! Yes, they do. I am a Buddhist, and I certainly do. And I know many other Buddhists who do as well. Christmas time for me is a holy time. Not because I will receive a new ready-racer bicycle under the tree but because this time of year reminds me of two events that happened in the world’s history that give me great inner hope and inspiration-... Read more

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2025-02-06T11:07:31-08:00

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Be Still and Know. Is It Possible?

Last updated on: February 6, 2025 at 11:07 am By John Buchanan

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Be still and know. Is it possible? Yes, it is! Every life-changing “aha” moment that has changed the trajectory of my life for the better has happened while I was sitting still in meditation. “Be still and know” ties in nicely with a practice known as Mahamudra, a profound but simple method to uncover the real you. Would you like to unravel layers of conditioned beliefs about yourself that prevent you from feeling at home with yourself and others? Sound... Read more

2023-12-01T09:44:28-08:00

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Does Meditation Help You Have a Better Life?

Last updated on: December 1, 2023 at 9:44 am By John Buchanan

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This post gives examples of how a meditation practice can improve anyone's life Read more

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2023-05-20T08:22:14-07:00

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Sweating for the Gods: How Hot Yoga is Blending Religion, Pop Culture, and Fitness Into a New Spiritual Movement

Last updated on: May 20, 2023 at 8:22 am By John Buchanan

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Sweating for the gods is not a new thing and how my own yoga practice evolved into a spiritual practice Read more

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2025-02-13T11:23:06-08:00

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More Americans Are Praying Than You Think

Last updated on: February 13, 2025 at 11:23 am By John Buchanan

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Do People Pray? Yes, they do. A lot of them do. Skylight and City Square Associates conducted a recent survey, and it turns out that many people in America are praying. I think more people are praying than we might imagine. The survey was conducted from April 6 to April 17 on a nationally representative sample of adults aged 18-64. It is one of the most in-depth surveys of its kind on prayer. The results show that folks are praying... Read more

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2023-05-05T08:40:47-07:00

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Who Can Benefit From a Meditation Practice?

Last updated on: May 5, 2023 at 8:40 am By John Buchanan

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Who Can Benefit From a Meditation Practice? Everyone. Unfortunately, many people have not been exposed to meditation in a way that fits their viewpoint. Many have set out on the journey and turned back. I understand why. It makes sense. Why would anyone eagerly stick with something that tends to show them more problems than solutions initially? And getting an accurate, real-life result might only arrive after many attempts. Months could go by before any progress is evident. Digging into... Read more

Business, Finance and Religion

2023-05-05T08:50:30-07:00

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Day by Day to the Selfless Self

Last updated on: May 5, 2023 at 8:50 am By John Buchanan

Confused About the Self, My Lama Showed Me What I Wasn’t Image by Mohamed Hassan/Pixabay The Question Have you spilled buckets of time wandering the halls of the tumbleweed hotel of your mind pondering your existence, trying to figure out what you should be, who you should be, who or what your best self is? I imagine you have only because I have. And so far, life’s evidence continuously shows me that many of us face that same vague sense... Read more

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