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Initial Thoughts About This Move
I’ve just moved from Fort Wayne, Indiana to San Francisco, California, just eight days ago—from relatively flat land to a city that has almost no flat land. This morning I walked to the bank from my brother, Casey, and sister-in-law, Kristy’s house. The bank is located a little over a mile away, some uphill, mostly…
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After the Ecstasy, the Laundry
The process of writing this most recent book: “My Darling: Memoirs of a Buddha Girl” was the most ecstatic experience of my life so far. And so, my darling, I miss that process terribly. It was ecstatic because during the entire process of writing it, I was in an intimate collaboration with the Big Love…
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Meditation
Meditation is the action of continually quieting the surface chatter in the mind. Take a look at the thoughts that go on in the mind—everything from grocery lists to grievance lists, from judgments about anyone or anything to tasks remaining undone (by you, your spouse, your colleague, your teenager, etc.). In general, our thoughts are…
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The Transformative Power of Embodied Love
I feel love in every cell of my body and it is the greatest gift I’ve ever been given. Embodied love changes everything by transforming the world around us and the world inside of us. Embodied love creates a completely different warp and weft of life—one that sustains and revitalizes. Embodied love is Big, Unconditional…
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What Is Consciousness?
Each one of us is living from within a facet of consciousness that has its own perspective, and just like looking through a specific pair of glasses, the facet determines how we see, experience, and interpret the world. Consciousness is experienced in the body; it is not just an intellectual concept. We move into and…
Regina Leffers, Ph.D.
Teacher, Author, Artist
