inner life Archives - Ed and Deb Shapiro

Loving Just This Moment

December 12, 2021 by Ed and Deb Shapiro Leave a Comment

Given the state of the world today it’d be totally understandable if we were dreading the holidays, the new year, or whatever might happen next, instead of feeling joyful and full of anticipation. Yet this new year has a very special effect: it makes us believe we have the chance to start over, to do […]

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Do You Want To Be A Guru?

August 8, 2021 by Ed and Deb Shapiro Leave a Comment

Every day we get emails proclaiming the latest discovery, teacher or workshop we MUST do if we are to have lasting happiness and self-mastery. Each proclaims we will be freed, transformed for ever, even fully enlightened. We received notice of a Guru Training program where we can become a guru in two weekends after which, […]

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Wherever You Are There You Are

July 5, 2021 by Ed and Deb Shapiro Leave a Comment

It is one of life’s greatest ironies that no matter how much we want to be different, wherever we go there we are. There’s just no getting away from ourselves. Go on holiday – there we are. Win the lottery – there we are. Move overseas – there we are. Wherever we look, we are […]

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The Magnificence of Gratitude

April 30, 2021 by Ed and Deb Shapiro Leave a Comment

The last year has not often been a time for being grateful, as it’s never easy when times are hard, if we are sick or a relative is, or we lose our job. But perhaps these are the very best times to give thanks, specifically for the things we do have rather than those we […]

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Change – the Essence of All Life

November 30, 2020 by Ed and Deb Shapiro Leave a Comment

The world around us, and who we are now, is not the same as it was just a few months, weeks, days, even a few moment ago. People have died, clouds have passed overhead, flowers have bloomed and leaves have fallen. Already we have changed, some of our cells have died while others have been […]

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Extending Loving Kindness

November 19, 2020 by Ed and Deb Shapiro Leave a Comment

Now, more than ever, we need to be kinder. It is so easy to blame others, be distrustful, or to hate anyone who seems different. Being kind and loving takes patience, caring and thoughtfulness; it is is the profound realization that everyone counts, that everyone matters. The story goes that, at the time of the […]

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Let’s Make Compassion Fashionable

October 1, 2020 by Ed and Deb Shapiro Leave a Comment

If we genuinely want to end hatred, bigotry, racism and abuse, if we genuinely want to bring real change to the world, then there is only one place to begin. We have to stop the war within ourselves by opening our hearts to ourselves and to all others, equally, for there will never be peace […]

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Lose Your Mind and Find Your Self

May 30, 2020 by Ed and Deb Shapiro Leave a Comment

As the great Zen teacher, Alan Watts said: We all need to go out of our minds at least once a day. When we go out of our minds we quickly come to our senses. Given the circumstances we are all having to deal with at the moment, many people are ‘going out of their […]

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The Amazing Wisdom of Mindlessness

December 2, 2019 by Ed and Deb Shapiro Leave a Comment

Where mindfulness is all about being aware, being present in the moment, noticing and paying attention to thoughts, feelings, behavior, and everything else, mindlessness is anything but, dominating all those moments when you are least aware. As such, mindlessness is the most amazing teacher ever: become aware of when you are unaware and hey presto, […]

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Are You A Monk, A Frog, Or A Scorpion?

September 12, 2019 by Ed and Deb Shapiro 1 Comment

After extensive travel in India and Australia we came back to visit with Ed’s family in New York. At dinner we were relating a story of a train journey we took across India. It was a very crowded train so Ed put his arm around Deb in order to sit as close together as possible. […]

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