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Home is Blooming Where The Dharma Plants Us
Mettamorphsis
6 December 2018
The final instalment of the Lily Pad Sutra
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Metta’s Magic Tricks
Mettamorphsis
28 February 2018
How the Dharma has challenged my illusions, one…
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The Mustard Seed of Grief and Rebirth
Mettamorphsis
4 January 2018
Facing loss, finding renewal
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In the World’s Secret Dharma Service by Living the Infinite “Yes”
Mettamorphsis
14 December 2017
How the Dharma steered my odd-jobs career to lend a…
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Home Truths: Belonging No Place, Belonging Every Place
Mettamorphsis
12 October 2017
Learning that home is a non-place we carry inside us
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Traveling Light and Lighter: The Life-changing Magic of Lightening Up
Mettamorphsis
22 September 2017
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Shoshin and the Fear of Others
Mettamorphsis
11 August 2017
The previous two articles in this column, which explored combining location-independence with letting the Dharma take the lead—what I term “lily padding”—described how tonglen dissolves the fear of
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Sowing the Seeds of Metta to Dissolve Fears of the Unknown
Mettamorphsis
21 July 2017
Last month, I introduced the overall concept of lily padding as a combination of location-independence and letting the Dharma take the lead. During my seven
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Lily Pad Sutra: Living in Transit for Seven Years
Mettamorphsis
16 June 2017
Giving up life as a householder and following the Dharma