Eileen Fulache Tupaz, PhD

  • On Breathing for Tranquility

    Dearest Friends, It was delightful to be in your company in today’s gathering. In today’s session, we continued our explorations of how the body can be a support for meeting stress and anxiety, focusing specifically on the breath and why… Continue reading

    On Breathing for Tranquility
  • On Bodhisattva Vows

    Dearest Friends, Thank you for your presences and your participation in our most recent gathering. In our last session, we began a series of explorations on what psychologists refer to as the self-transcendent emotions, i.e., expansive emotions that reduce our… Continue reading

    On Bodhisattva Vows
  • On the Truth of Impermanence

    Dearest Friends, Thank you for your presences and your participation in today’s gathering. In today’s session, we began our exploration of the breath as a support for generating liberating insight (vipassanā), focusing specifically on how the breath can offer us… Continue reading

    On the Truth of Impermanence
  • On Embodied Awareness

    Dearest Friends, Thank you for the gift of your presences and your participation in our gathering today. In today’s session, we began our exploration of how the body can be a profound support for meeting stress and anxiety—starting with a… Continue reading

    On Embodied Awareness
  • On Transforming Shame

    Dearest Friends, It was delightful to be in your gracious company in our most recent gathering. In our last session, we explored our experiences of ecological guilt, focusing on the suffering that arises when we’re acutely aware of our ongoing… Continue reading

    On Transforming Shame
  • On Fostering Tranquility

    Dearest Friends, It was delightful to be in your company in today’s gathering. In today’s session, we continued our exploration of the breath as a support for cultivating mindfulness, focusing specifically on why the breath is one of the simplest… Continue reading

    On Fostering Tranquility
  • On Transforming Distractions

    Dearest Friends, Thank you for your presences and your participation in our gathering today! In today’s session, we explored how distractions are often viewed in mindfulness communities as hindrances that pull the mind away from present moment awareness. However, like… Continue reading

    On Transforming Distractions
  • On Alchemizing Anxiety

    Dearest Friends, Thank you for the gift of your presences and your participation in our most recent gathering! In our last session, we explored our experiences of ecological anxiety, focusing especially on how we can work with our anxiety in… Continue reading

    On Alchemizing Anxiety
  • On Minding the Breath

    Dearest Friends, Thank you for your presences and your participation in our gathering today! In today’s session, we began a new series of explorations on how we can lean on the Satipaṭṭhāna Sutta as a resource for deepening mindfulness. This… Continue reading

    On Minding the Breath
  • On Labeling Reality

    Dearest Friends, It was delightful to be in your gracious company yet again today! In today’s session, we explored the last of the “filters” that shape our perceptions of reality, which is the filter of language. Like I shared in… Continue reading

    On Labeling Reality