Please Help Me Get Out of the Hospital

By Debra Basham, on March 30, 2022

Buddhist teachings point to the most elemental cause behind our suffering — forgetting who we are. We forget our belonging to one another and to our larger body of earth. We forget our belonging to the boundless, loving awareness which is our shared essence. Instead, we live in a trance of egoic separation, with habits […]

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Learn, Grow, and Change

By Debra Basham, on March 25, 2022

One of the most extraordinary aspects of our humanity is our capacity to learn, grow, and change.

~ Sheryl Chard (Gratefulness.org)

One week ago today I got a call from the son of my long-time business partner, Joel Bowman, asking who in Kalamazoo could take his dad to the ER.

Of course, I am […]

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Getting Ready

By Debra Basham, on March 23, 2022

Meditation is not only permissible in the face of great suffering; it is a moral obligation. ~ Right Action in the Face of Suffering, by Dan Zigmond, March 15, 2022 in The Lion’s Roar

Often I use the Yellow Brick Road as a platform to share what is happening. Today I am simply going to […]

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The Practice of Life

By Debra Basham, on March 9, 2022

Last evening’s Group 2 was only five of us out of thirteen. I am not sure what qualifies as a quorum, but I am sure all thirteen of us were actively involved in the practice of LIFE.

Our meeting times were set at the first of the year but the evening before our meeting […]

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