Groups

  • Practicing Buddhism
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    Practicing Buddhism
    Status: Member
    Description: Buddhism transforms many lives through its practical means. The Buddha's teaching enables us to see our potential, transform our experiences, motivate us, and most importantly, Enlighten Us to our true nature. </p> This group is open to share and discuss applying Buddhist teaching to everyday life. From the modern day Businessman to the ancient Monk, both can awaken equally in every day life or in a cave in the Himalayas. </p><p> Welcome to "Practicing Buddhism".</p>
  • Meditation
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    Meditation
    Status: Member
    Description: This group is for guidance and encouragement for cultivating meditation skills and to increase understanding of the full richness of the practice of meditation and what it offers us. Get to know other people who are interested in meditation, and share and reflect on how it can help us experience greater clarity and balance in our lives.
  • Being Ourself
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    Being Ourself
    Status: Member
    Description: This is a group for people who recognize in a profoundly personal way that we are all actually facets of one whole interacting with itself, or more accurately, Ourself. It is a place for peer discussion and exploration as we move through the challenges and insights we encounter while participating in the awakening of ourselves to our common fundamental identity, Ourself. As indivisible aspects of the single, infinitely diverse entity of everything/reality/creation we all have an opportunity and a responsibility to deepen humankind's awareness of Ourself, and to enrich our language with new terminology/ideas to more accurately portray that which truly is. We want to support each other as we discover wholeness while living in a society that defines everything (including God) as separate when in fact the creator and creation (including all people, animals, plants, minerals, and seen and unseen forces of spirit) are not in any actual way separate. So don't be shy... your vantage point of the whole is completely unique, and is just as valid and important as anybody elses. Enlightenment is the recognition of the wholeness, which by its very all-inclusive nature negates the validity of any kind of exclusive spiritual authority or guru. To allow ourselves to truly feel and be aware of ourselves as part of the great wholeness we need to stop putting others on a pedestal as a way of avoiding being accountable for shining our own light. Let's get the orchestra of the wholeness playing diversely, brilliantly, and powerfully enough to wake up humankind from the illusion of separateness. We can only accomplish this as a community of distinct voices and insights singing out in the harmony of the whole, and not by silencing our own special voice because we have decided some other "enlightened" teacher has a monopoly on authenticity! So sing out your insights, your questions... cry out your pains and frustrations... and love your neighbor as yourself because in truth they are; we are all precious dimensions of one whole. Let's respectfully, gently, and lovingly be Ourself together.
  • Effective Interpersonal Communication
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    Effective Interpersonal Communication
    Category: Angels
    Status: Member
    Description: Explore the intricacies of interpersonal communication. Let us share how we navigate these sometimes treacherous waters, whether with intimate partners, friendships, colleagues, or acquaintances.
  • Prayer of St. Francis of Assisi
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    Prayer of St. Francis of Assisi
    Status: Member
    Description: Lord, make me an instrument of your peace. Where there is hatred, let me sow love; Where there is injury,pardon; Where there is doubt, faith; Where there is despair, hope; Where there is darkness, light; And where there is sadness, joy. O Divine Master, Grant that I may not so much seek to be consoled as to console; to be understood as to understand; to be loved as to love. For it is in giving that we receive; it is in pardoning that we are pardoned; and it is in dying that we are born to eternal life. Amen
  • Heart Centered Self-Directed Personal Growth
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    Heart Centered Self-Directed Personal Growth
    Status: Member
    Description: ...Is To Be Served As Little As Possible And To Serve Others As Much As Possible -Tolstoy This DG is dedicated to Tolstoy's words. Expect the unexpected. If your heart hurts for what you have lost, let it rejoice for what you have found. Be gentle with yourself and others for this creates an inner landscape of life lived in love, contentment and joy. The energy of all will be appreciated and validated. Questions and feedback in this DG will be posed respectfully. This is the only guideline. With gentleness, respect and love, we will address a multitude of subjects while guarding those of us who, for whatever reason might seem in a fog. May today be the day we realize where our real securities lie. Let today's blessings be acknowledged as the new ones begin.
  • How to Stress Less
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    How to Stress Less
    Status: Member
    Description: Stress - it's the scourge of modern life, and it's everywhere. Here we'll share our tried-and-true coping strategies....they might be spiritual, they might be bizarre, but hey, whatever works, right? Let's release, relax, and kick stress to the curb!