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Thomas Bien
Dec 25, 20202 min read
Deep Forgiveness: Does It Make Sense to Forgive a Storm?
The deepest insight of the Buddha is his insight into what we really are. We think of ourselves as static and unchanging, a something or...
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Thomas Bien
Dec 25, 20201 min read
Forgiveness, Part 3: On Impermanence
I have been writing about forgiveness, that it is a process involving patience, looking into the core of our own wronging of others, and...
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Thomas Bien
Dec 25, 20202 min read
Forgiveness, Part 2
If you look into times when you have done something that has hurt another person, you can learn quite a bit. Most of the time, you...
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Thomas Bien
Dec 25, 20202 min read
The Power of Forgiveness
Sometimes we are afraid to forgive. It feels as though we would somehow lose power by forgiving someone. We fear that it would make us...
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Thomas Bien
Dec 25, 20202 min read
Coming to our Senses
Consider for a moment: how do you know that you exist? Your existence probably seems so obvious to you, that you never consider whether...
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Thomas Bien
Dec 25, 20202 min read
Lost on an Island
Imagine you have travelled to an island alone. You have inside information that there is treasure buried on the island, and you have...
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Thomas Bien
Dec 25, 20201 min read
Mindfulness of Mental Formation
One time when I had just started my psychology practice and didn’t have many clients, I found myself thinking about the psychologists I...
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Thomas Bien
Dec 25, 20202 min read
How to Live Mindfully (Part Two)
I wrote last time about the first way of practicing mindfulness that the Buddha had taught: mindfulness of the body. This is the...
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Thomas Bien
Dec 25, 20201 min read
Mindfulness of the Body
How do we actually practice mindfulness? The Buddha recommended four major ways to practice mindfulness. The first of these is...
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Thomas Bien
Dec 25, 20201 min read
The Art of Being
In Italian there is a wonderful expression: Il dolce far niente. It means the sweetness of doing nothing. When I told my Italian friend...
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