The Wake Up Call for Lawyers
By Judi Cohen
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Dec 2, 2023
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Mindfulness for the Legal Mind: a 10-minute talk plus 10 minutes of guided meditation. A brief refuge. The musings of a long-time lawyer, law professor, and mindfulness geek on lawyering from a mindful perspective. Tools to cultivate more joy, ease, and wellbeing in this crazy profession. Ideas to become even better at what you do, and save the world. A few minutes of peace every week, which you definitely deserve.
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The Mischievous Mind
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Jul 16, 2026 |
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The Thousands of Ways We Fool Ourselves
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Jul 10, 2026 |
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Bringing Faith to Our 250th Birthday Party
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Jul 03, 2026 |
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Freedom Means Being Honest With Ourselves
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Jun 26, 2026 |
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We Are All Such Beloved Fools
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Jun 12, 2026 |
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Acting Accordingly, and Other Good Ideas
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Jun 04, 2026 |
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Overlooking the Faults of Others
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May 29, 2026 |
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Don’t Let Your Heart Run Scared
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May 22, 2026 |
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Taking Joy in a Knock on the Nose
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May 15, 2026 |
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Mindfulness on the Ground
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May 08, 2026 |
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Creating Happiness
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May 01, 2026 |
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Truth and the Heart: Seeing is Healing
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Apr 24, 2026 |
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Worthiness
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Apr 17, 2026 |
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How Attention Creates Stability
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Apr 13, 2026 |
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Knowing our Fate, How Can We Quarrel?
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Apr 03, 2026 |
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The Problem with Blame
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Mar 27, 2026 |
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The Power of Our State of Mind
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Mar 20, 2026 |
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The Poetry of Mindfulness
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Mar 13, 2026 |
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The Big Topic of Intention
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Mar 06, 2026 |
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Choosing a Point of View
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Feb 27, 2026 |
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Lawyering & Wise Livelihood
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Feb 20, 2026 |
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Un-clouding the Mind
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Feb 06, 2026 |
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Practicing Respect for Everyone
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Jan 30, 2026 |
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As If There’s Enough
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Jan 23, 2026 |
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Random Acts of Non-Harming
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Jan 16, 2026 |
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How to Talk About…Everything
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Jan 09, 2026 |
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Make of Yourself a Light
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Dec 19, 2025 |
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The Possibilities of Concentration
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Dec 12, 2025 |
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How to Practice, Part II: Courage & Grace
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Dec 05, 2025 |
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Gratitude, 2025
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Nov 20, 2025 |
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Why Practice?
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Nov 14, 2025 |
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How to Practice
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Nov 07, 2025 |
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Mindfulness, Love, Courage, and Grace
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Oct 31, 2025 |
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The Path, Step Two: Wise Mindfulness
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Oct 24, 2025 |
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Joyful Effort – The First Step
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Oct 17, 2025 |
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The Path We’re Choosing
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Oct 10, 2025 |
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How to Let Go When the Ride is Bumpy
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Oct 03, 2025 |
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The Cause of Suffering Right Now
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Sep 26, 2025 |
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The Benefits of Suffering, Distress, and Other Difficult Moments
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Sep 19, 2025 |
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Back to Basics: Setting the Wheel in Motion
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Sep 12, 2025 |
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What if Every Day Was the Most Ordinary Day of Your Life?
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Sep 05, 2025 |
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The Wake Up Call @499
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Aug 29, 2025 |
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The Relief of Not Being in Charge
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Aug 22, 2025 |
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Positive Regard for Undeserving People
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Aug 15, 2025 |
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Playing With Untangling the Mind
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Aug 07, 2025 |
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Relaxing the Mind
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Aug 01, 2025 |
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Ethical Choice : One Thing to Feel Good About
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Aug 01, 2025 |
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Ethics in Uncommonly Difficult Times
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Jul 04, 2025 |
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Conjuring Love Out of Adversity
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Jun 05, 2025 |
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Letting Generosity Set the Tone for What Follows
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May 17, 2025 |
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Could These Be Three Elements of Peace?
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May 09, 2025 |
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Making Peace with Dread (The Personal Kind)
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May 01, 2025 |
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Sending Some Love to Earth
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Apr 25, 2025 |
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Accessing Our Love, and Other Challenges
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Apr 18, 2025 |
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Wisdom and Not-Wisdom in Action, Plus Sweet News
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Apr 11, 2025 |
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Commitment Versus Attachment
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Apr 04, 2025 |
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Signaling Safety with Mindful Communication
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Mar 28, 2025 |
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An Appropriate Response?
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Mar 22, 2025 |
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Making Peace Out of Chaos
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Mar 14, 2025 |
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The Radical Act of Abandoning Hate
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Mar 08, 2025 |
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Love and Breathe, For Everyone’s Sake
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Mar 01, 2025 |
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Patience is the Stronger Position
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Feb 21, 2025 |
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Love and Intention, Even Now
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Feb 14, 2025 |
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Faith in An Appropriate Response
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Feb 07, 2025 |
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Resting Up for What’s Next
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Jan 31, 2025 |
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Right Now, Don’t be Bothered by Anything
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Jan 24, 2025 |
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The Bigger the Space, the Easier it is to Care
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Jan 16, 2025 |
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Beginning With Beginner’s Mind
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Jan 11, 2025 |
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Choosing a Theme for 2025
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Jan 03, 2025 |
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Can We Talk About Faith?
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Dec 27, 2024 |
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Letting Nature Bring Peace
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Dec 21, 2024 |
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Appreciating Slothfulness
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Dec 14, 2024 |
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Sitting Above the Fray
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Dec 06, 2024 |
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Is it gratitude, or something else?
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Nov 23, 2024 |
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Seeing Clearly in Difficult Times
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Nov 16, 2024 |
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Just Breathe
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Nov 08, 2024 |
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Welcoming This Scary Moment: Happy Halloween. Happy Almost Election.
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Oct 31, 2024 |
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How to Feel Right Now
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Oct 24, 2024 |
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Impermanence, Multiple Truths, and Door-Knocking
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Oct 18, 2024 |
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Turning Forgiveness Around
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Oct 10, 2024 |
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Apology and Forgiveness
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Oct 04, 2024 |
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Wise Concentration
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Sep 26, 2024 |
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Wise Mindfulness, A Tall Order
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Sep 19, 2024 |
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Wise Effort - Goldilocks Was Right
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Sep 13, 2024 |
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Wise Lawyering: Practicing Peace
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Aug 29, 2024 |
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Behaving With Wisdom
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Aug 23, 2024 |
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Winning & Influencing Mindfully
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Aug 15, 2024 |
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The Problem With Good Intentions
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Aug 09, 2024 |
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The Path to Waking Up
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Aug 02, 2024 |
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Letting Go When the Stakes are High
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Jul 25, 2024 |
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The Reason Things Are Hard
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Jul 19, 2024 |
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Why Being Human is The Only Way
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Jul 12, 2024 |
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The Insecurity Of Everything
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Jun 28, 2024 |
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Why Change is All the Things
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Jun 21, 2024 |
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Suffering As the Most Ordinary Thing
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Jun 14, 2024 |
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The End of Suffering
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Jun 07, 2024 |
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Not This Not That
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May 31, 2024 |
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Finding Someone To Insult You
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May 24, 2024 |
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Four Ways To Be Still In Difficult Moments
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May 17, 2024 |
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Learning to Stop Strategizing
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May 10, 2024 |
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Groundlessness/Feet On The Ground
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May 03, 2024 |
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Meditation That Unlocks Wisdom
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Apr 26, 2024 |
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Making Enthusiasm Cool Again
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Apr 19, 2024 |
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Patience With Ourselves
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Apr 12, 2024 |
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Ethics, Ferocity, and Harmony
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Apr 04, 2024 |
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Knowing How To Give
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Mar 29, 2024 |
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Letting The Raft Disintegrate
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Mar 22, 2024 |
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Laziness and the Lawyer
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Mar 15, 2024 |
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Getting Beyond Reproach
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Mar 08, 2024 |
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Can We Ever Truly Forgive?
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Mar 01, 2024 |
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Working With Our Enemies
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Feb 23, 2024 |
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Ending Up With The Goodies
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Feb 16, 2024 |
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The Practice of Thinking of Others
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Feb 09, 2024 |
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Happiness Without a Hangover
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Feb 02, 2024 |
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Breathing For The World
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Jan 25, 2024 |
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Getting To Know My Demons
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Jan 19, 2024 |
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Choosing To Befriend Everyone
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Jan 12, 2024 |
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Choosing To Be A Warrior
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Jan 05, 2024 |
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Bowing Out of 2023 and Into 2024
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Dec 29, 2023 |
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Moving Forward By Sitting Still
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Dec 22, 2023 |
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The Cure for Hot and Cold
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Dec 15, 2023 |
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The Three Marks of Existing as a Lawyer
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Dec 08, 2023 |
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Balancing on Shaky Ground
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Dec 01, 2023 |
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The Truth About Uncompromising Truth
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Nov 17, 2023 |
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Learning To Tolerate Being Terrified
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Oct 27, 2023 |
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The Liminal Space of Not Knowing
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Oct 19, 2023 |
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The Impossible Task Of Being Human
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Oct 12, 2023 |
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The Thoughts That Bother Me
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Oct 06, 2023 |
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When Our Best Falls Short
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Sep 28, 2023 |
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The Potential in Scary Moments
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Sep 22, 2023 |
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Can We Turn Resilience Into Love?
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Sep 15, 2023 |
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Back to the Basics of Mindfulness
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Sep 08, 2023 |
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Letting Go Into Fall
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Sep 01, 2023 |
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You Don't Always Want What You Want...
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Aug 25, 2023 |
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The Consequences of What We Feel
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Aug 19, 2023 |
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Connecting With Our Experience
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Aug 12, 2023 |
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The Courage to Explore Pain & Suffering
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Aug 06, 2023 |
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What I Thought I Knew About Mindfulness
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Jul 29, 2023 |
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Ordinary Moments, Bumpy Times
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Jun 30, 2023 |
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Writing My Father’s Obituary
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Jun 23, 2023 |
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The Joy of Being the Change: Three Baskets of Mindfulness
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Jun 16, 2023 |
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Scheming, Persuading, and Other Considerations of Mindful Lawyering
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Jun 02, 2023 |
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Practicing with Poisons
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May 26, 2023 |
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Come for the Practice, Stay for the Love
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May 19, 2023 |
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How to Not Take More Than We Need
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May 13, 2023 |
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Ethics, Shame, Dread, and Forgiveness
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May 07, 2023 |
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The Good News About Shame and Dread
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Apr 28, 2023 |
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The Blessing of Equanimity
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Apr 28, 2023 |
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Equanimity Rulel
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Apr 28, 2023 |
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The Task of Concentration
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Apr 06, 2023 |
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Awakening to Tranquility in the Here and Now
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Apr 06, 2023 |
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The Joy of Waking Up
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Mar 26, 2023 |
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The Energy to Awaken Our Best & Brightest Legal Mind
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Mar 17, 2023 |
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Investigating the Legal Mind, Not Just the Matter
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Mar 09, 2023 |
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Becoming More Mindful of Our Own Beautiful Minds
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Mar 03, 2023 |
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Wanting, Wanting, Not Wanting, Not Caring: Mindful of Our Relationship to Experience
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Feb 24, 2023 |
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Remembering to Remember to be Mindful
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Feb 17, 2023 |
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The Treasures Within
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Feb 10, 2023 |
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Getting In Close
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Feb 02, 2023 |
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The Wisdom of Sorrow
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Jan 26, 2023 |
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Wisdom Inquiries: The Invisible Chain that Links Lawyers, Clients, Opponents, and All
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Jan 19, 2023 |
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Wisdom Inquiries - Can Lawyers Do No Harm
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Jan 12, 2023 |
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Bringing a New Kind of Wisdom Into 2023
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Jan 05, 2023 |
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Attention + Intention in 2023
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Dec 30, 2022 |
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Sacred Spaces in the Law
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Dec 30, 2022 |
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Settling In & Waking Up, Together
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Dec 15, 2022 |
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Is Meditation Required?
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Dec 08, 2022 |
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Priming the Pump of Gratitude
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Nov 17, 2022 |
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Vow to be Courageous
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Nov 10, 2022 |
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The Joy of Waking Up at 5am to Meditate
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Nov 03, 2022 |
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Patience Means Giving the Victory to Others
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Oct 27, 2022 |
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Passionate Advocacy With Patience, Not Anger
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Oct 20, 2022 |
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Patience in an Impatient World
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Oct 13, 2022 |
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Turning the Destiny of a Nation
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Oct 06, 2022 |
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How Shall I Live, and Other Questions We Can Only Answer in Our Imaginations
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Sep 29, 2022 |
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Ethics Are Impossible Where There's No Justice
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Sep 22, 2022 |
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Ethics for the Greater Good
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Sep 15, 2022 |
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Ethics and Character
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Sep 08, 2022 |
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The "Real" Rules of Ethics
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Sep 01, 2022 |
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The Perfection of Ethics for a Life in the Law
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Aug 25, 2022 |
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Courage, Political Action, and Interconnection as Generosity
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Aug 18, 2022 |
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The Biggest Ask of All: the Generosity of Just Being Nice
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Aug 11, 2022 |
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The Gifts of Recognition, Admiration, and Laughter
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Aug 04, 2022 |
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Generosity : Creating a Safer, Braver, World
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Jul 29, 2022 |
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Generosity of Practice: Maybe We’re All Teachers
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Jul 21, 2022 |
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What We Have to Give
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Jul 14, 2022 |
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The Optimism of Generosity
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Jul 07, 2022 |
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Generosity for Ourselves Right Now
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Jun 30, 2022 |
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The Impossibility of Perfection
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Jun 23, 2022 |
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Re - Imagining the Law
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Jun 16, 2022 |
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The Fine Art of Letting Go
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May 05, 2022 |
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The Compatibility of Kindness
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Apr 28, 2022 |
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Lighting Up the World, One Lawyer at a Time
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Apr 21, 2022 |
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Finding Peace in Each Breath
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Apr 15, 2022 |
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Enduring an Attack
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Apr 07, 2022 |
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Taming the Runaway Mind
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Mar 31, 2022 |
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How Much Mindfulness is Enough?
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Mar 24, 2022 |
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G.R.O.U.N.D. Practice and Being a Leader of Peace
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Mar 17, 2022 |
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Whacking Someone On the Head, in a Mindful Way
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Mar 10, 2022 |
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Are We Starting to Get It?
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Mar 03, 2022 |
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Cutting Off the Head of the Snake
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Feb 24, 2022 |
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The Perils of "Being" a Lawyer
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Feb 17, 2022 |
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Preventing Corruption, and Other Advantages of Mindfulness
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Feb 11, 2022 |
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Dancing With Fear, and Other Paradoxes
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Feb 03, 2022 |
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The next Buddha will be our community
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Jan 27, 2022 |
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A little less grief and fear...
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Jan 20, 2022 |
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Can Victory Lead to Hate?
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Jan 13, 2022 |
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Finding Refuge in 2022
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Jan 06, 2022 |
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Setting the Moon Free, and Other Impossible Intentions for 2022
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Dec 30, 2021 |
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Finding the Beloved in Ourselves
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Dec 23, 2021 |
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All Hands on Deck!
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Dec 17, 2021 |
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Alternatives to Violence
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Dec 09, 2021 |
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Crowding Out the "Evil" in the Mind
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Dec 02, 2021 |
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Gratitude Mini-Series S1/E3: First Person Gratitude
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Nov 25, 2021 |
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Gratitude Mini-Series S1/E2: 5 Habits of Highly Grateful Lawyers
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Nov 18, 2021 |
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Gratitude Mini-Series S1/E1: Grateful for the Hard Stuff
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Nov 11, 2021 |
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Shining a Mindful Light on Brokenness
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Nov 04, 2021 |
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Mindfulness & Creating Safety in the Profession
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Oct 28, 2021 |
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Softening Barriers to Respectfulness
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Oct 21, 2021 |
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Conquering Ourselves
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Oct 14, 2021 |
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New York State of Mind
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Oct 07, 2021 |
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One (Patient) Moment to Create Peace
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Sep 30, 2021 |
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Don't Put Yourself on Trial
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Sep 23, 2021 |
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Sanctuary is Where We Are
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Sep 09, 2021 |
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Mindfulness & Déjà Vu All Over Again
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Sep 02, 2021 |
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The Smoke and the Fire
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Aug 26, 2021 |
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To Tame or To Blame - That's Today's Question
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Aug 19, 2021 |
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Let's Talk About Our Friends (In a Nice Way)
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Aug 12, 2021 |
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Last Week the Fool, This Week the Sage
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Aug 06, 2021 |
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Your Last Pants Have No Pockets
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Jul 30, 2021 |
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Mastering the World, and other mindful ideas
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Jul 23, 2021 |
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Mindfulness in the Probate Court
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Jul 16, 2021 |
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Taming the Restless (Legal) Mind
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Jul 08, 2021 |
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The Vigilance to be Free
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Jul 01, 2021 |
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To Grieve or Rejoice: That's the Question
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Jun 28, 2021 |
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Where Quarrels End
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Jun 17, 2021 |
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One Thing Leads to Another: Anger to Anger, Peace to Love
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Jun 10, 2021 |
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Stepping Back for a Clearer View
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Jun 03, 2021 |
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Clarity and Balance: Dropping the Objections and Getting to Work
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May 27, 2021 |
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Noticing Your Innate Peace of Mind
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May 20, 2021 |
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Don't Fight With Your Practice (aka Making Peace With Your Practice)
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May 13, 2021 |
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Opening (to) the World
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May 06, 2021 |
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Resting in the Present Moment
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Apr 29, 2021 |
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Finding Common G.R.O.U.N.D.
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Apr 22, 2021 |
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G.R.O.U.N.D. in the Here & Now
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Apr 15, 2021 |
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Equanimity as Things Unfold
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Apr 08, 2021 |
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Equanimity at the End, My Mother's Last Teaching
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Mar 18, 2021 |
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Equanimity in the Time of COVID
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Mar 11, 2021 |
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Forgiveness that Can Lead to Liberation
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Feb 25, 2021 |
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Wishing Our Enemies Well
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Feb 18, 2021 |
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Letting Joy Win
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Feb 11, 2021 |
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Taking Joy in Someone Else's Success
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Feb 04, 2021 |
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The Joy of Letting Someone Else Lead
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Jan 28, 2021 |
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Unity
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Jan 22, 2021 |
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What Do Wisdom and Compassion Look Like Right Now?
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Jan 15, 2021 |
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Why Practice Mindfulness?
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Jan 08, 2021 |