I drive for a living. It has been a great training ground for patience and anger management. I try to respond to other drivers in the most loving and compassionate way, even if it is not reacting at all. I am not always successful. At any rate, the other day I was inching along C-470, an extremely heavily trafficked highway here in Colorado. I noticed a large SUV trying to nudge it's way in front of me, not a signal in sight. I said to this person in my mind, "signaling

There have been some terrible events in this country and around the world in recent weeks, as we all know. it is the human tendency to react with anger, blame, recrimination, rage, sorrow, finger-pointing. If we could, just for one moment, truly grasp the concept of karma, it might take some of the negative energetic charge out of our reactions. This would require a belief in more than one lifetime, and the thousands of lifetimes lived that have brought us to this time and p

Fortitude. I have been learning to listen to the guidance of my soul self. Master Sha teaches that we have a Yuan Shen, an original soul that is permanently connected to the source, clean and clear and immortal. What a gorgeous thought! We forget this great soul self on purpose I think, so that we can play the compelling game of finding our way back to it. At any rate, in meditation a few days ago, I asked my Yuan Shen what word or thought or vision it might have for me.