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Mahakala At Work | Tricycle Magazine To Read the full article click the link above. The workplace presents us with some tough challenges that require both professional skill and spriritual wisdom. Giving difficult feedback to a colleague, confronting an offensive boss, motivating a disillusioned coworker, losing a job, exposing a fraud or a petty office theft—such challenges are real and unavoidable aspects of our jobs. Managing such difficulties can make us feel anxious or disillusioned and, at times even arrogant, inadequate, or fearful. But navigating such workplace difficulties need not be distressing. In fact, managing conflicts skillfully can be a powerful opportunity for personal and professional growth. What I’ve found particularly useful is a traditional Buddhist way of working with conflict: the Mahakala method. Carrying a weapon in each of his four arms, the Tibetan deity Mahakala strikes a threatening pose. But Mahakala is actually a protector deity, and meditators have lon...

What was the Goddess and my inner self trying to tell me about how to relate to the cancer cells in my neck? It came to me this morning. "Fight like Arjuna in the Bhagavad Gita or Spartacus in the Starz Movie Channel". What the wife of Spartacus said to him when faced with their enemies, is what I say to my T cells, looking at the cancer cells, "Kill them, Kill them all!!!"

Sufis say, "Greet every stranger that comes to your door with the awareness of who sent them and act accordingly. All people and situations are ultimately gifts from the Goddess." Or some such thing. So I got a gift today. My biopsy exploration shows a small centimeter module of cancer in my throat. OK Goddess I know this gift is from you and you want me to remember that and act on it. Being your lover I will do so to the best of my ability, so thank you dear Beloved and let's DANCE! (laugh) If you who read this do not get maudlin on me. inshAllah! Maudlin- adjective 1. tearfully or weakly emotional; foolishly sentimental: a maudlin story of a little orphan and her lost dog. 2. foolishly or mawkishly sentimental because of drunkenness. I say, Bring out the flutes and drums and sing and dance! Who knows where this adventure gift will lead. I trust it to be good whatever and when ever it is because She sent it to me as a gift, inshAllah!

We spent a weekend with the Bon Tibetans April 18, 2010 My and I had the pleasure and good fortune to spend a weekend with Temp lama leader of the Olmo Ling Tibetan Bon Center in Pittsburgh and Menri Ponlob Rinpoche head teacher of Bon monastery, the main monastery of the Tibetan Bon tradition. It was a beautiful and life changing experience. When Menri Ponlob Rinpoche did what they call a Transmission I had an experience I was not expecting. I felt my whole body and especially my heart area vibrate and become very warm. The last time I felt anything like that was when I was accepted into a Sufi order and the teacher startled me with the intensity of the loving energy I felt flow from him to me during the initiation ceremony. Come visit the Olmo Ling Center sometime and get a feel for what I mean. If you are good at feeling energy just be open to feeling it as you look at the photographs below. What a wonderful gift for the people of Pittsburgh to have such a place as Olmo Ling and ...