Real Happiness 28-Day Meditation Challenge

Real Happiness 28-Day Meditation Challenge, Day 8

Looking for inspiration on how to keep it going as we enter the second week of the 28-day meditation challenge? Keep moving, nothing to see here. One of the first things you’ll hear when getting meditation…

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Feb 08, 2011

Days 5, 6, and 7 of The Great Meditation Challenge: Canine Chaos

For the first four days of Sharon Salzberg’s 28-Day Meditation Challenge, the bulk of my daily practice was done here in the office, with nothing more distracting than a ringing phone or a Fed Ex delivery…

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Feb 07, 2011

Day 4: Snow, Samsara, and You

Day four on the cushion. My thoughts are all over the place. What has to be done today in the office? Is it going to snow this weekend? How will I be OK when my parents…

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Feb 04, 2011

Day 3: The Great Meditation Challenge

Managing the magazine means I’m always looking forward, mapping out the calendar, checking the upcoming press schedule, assigning due dates. Often I find that my thoughts are 2 steps ahead of my actions. I love planning…

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Feb 03, 2011

Day 2: The Great Meditation Challenge

As we’ve no doubt hammered home by now, the 28-Day Meditation Challenge has begun. Some of you have complained about too many exclamation points, so I’ll try to take a calmer approach, which our daily staff…

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Feb 02, 2011

Real Happiness 28-Day Meditation Challenge, Day 1

Today is the first day of Sharon Salzberg’s 28-day meditation challenge based on her book Real Happiness. You can get an e-book to begin reading instantly if you join the Tricycle Community now and take advantage…

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Feb 01, 2011

What is the 28 Day Meditation Challenge? How does one prepare?

We have received a lot of questions about what exactly is entailed in the new 28 Day Meditation Challenge that begins on February 1st. It is quite simple, the challenge is this: see if you can…

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Jan 27, 2011

If you can breathe, you can meditate…

That’s the subtitle of the first chapter of Sharon Salzberg’s Real Happiness: The Power of Meditation. Here at Tricycle we’ve begun the countdown: 5 days until we begin the four-week Meditation Challenge. For details, see yesterday’s…

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Jan 27, 2011

It’s Back: The 28 Day Meditation Challenge!

Last week I joined Sharon Salzberg and 30 or so others at Tibet House in New York City to prepare for a 28-day meditation challenge that begins on February 1. Participants will run the gamut, from…

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Jan 26, 2011