Eileen Fulache Tupaz, PhD
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On Active Hope
Dearest Friends, Thank you for the medicine of your company in our most recent gathering. In our last session, we explored the beloved environmental activist, systems theorist and Buddhist scholar Joanna Macy’s idea of active hope and how this construct… Continue reading
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On Tunnel Vision
Dearest Friends, It was delightful to be in your company today! In today’s session, we explored the second of the “filters” that alter our perceptions of reality, which is the filter of tunnel vision. Like I shared in my brief… Continue reading
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On Sensory Filters
Dearest Friends, Thank you for your presences and your participation in our gathering today. In today’s session, we began our exploration of the different kinds of “filters” that alter our perceptions of reality. Today’s focus was on sensory gating—the automatic… Continue reading
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On the Varieties of Loss
Dearest Friends, Thank you for your presences and your participation in our most recent gathering—and welcome once again to our newest member! In last week’s session, we began our exploration of ecological grief and named aspects of it that tend… Continue reading
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On Sensory Gates
Dearest Friends, Thank you for your presences and your participation in our gathering today. In today’s session, we began our exploration of the different kinds of “filters” that alter our perceptions of reality. Today’s focus was on sensory gating—the automatic… Continue reading
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On Seeing Filters
Dearest Friends, Thank you for your presences and your participation in our most recent gathering. In last week’s conversation, I used the metaphor of the spotlight to highlight how we can shine our attention on different aspects of our experience… Continue reading
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On the Faces of Grief
Dearest Friends, It was delightful to see the return of familiar faces in our last gathering. In our most recent conversation, I focused our attention on ecological grief and shared the discoveries that I’d made in my own exploration of… Continue reading
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On Noticing Filters
Dearest Friends, It was delightful to be in your company again in our last gathering—and to see the return of familiar faces! In last week’s conversation, we explored how mindfulness practices can help us train our ability to “zoom in”… Continue reading
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On Deploying Attention
Dearest Friends, It was a gift to be reunited with all of you in our last gathering. In that session, we concluded our explorations of how the Buddhist teaching of the five aggregates (skandhas) can support us in releasing stress… Continue reading
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On Bearing the Unbearable
Dearest Friends, It was deeply nurturing to be in your company again in our last gathering. In the spirit of starting our sangha anew, I didn’t offer a dharma reflection in our session but invited all of us who were… Continue reading
