Author Archive | Sharon Gubbay

What do I really want from my next phase of practice? These 28 days have been such a wonderful grounding force running through my days. Perhaps the simplest thing would be to do the 28 days all over again.  Then Read More

It is as though I have small nails or thorns embedded in my core. Small resentments that have been lodged there, some for a very long time, and some more recent.  Bringing compassion around them makes it possible for them to Read More

Do I have that power? I am wishing all beings who live mostly in pain, wishing them safety and ease. I am thinking of the homeless people around me, and the people I never meet but I hear about  on Read More

During the last part of the meditation I came to think about our cat. I feel so terribly guilty about having found a new home for her at this stage of her life. She is getting older. She had started Read More

Today’s meditation is so beautiful. Conjuring the circle of love. Experiencing the love seeping in and flowing in.  Experiencing the love flowing out. It is like this is my true home and my altar. So intimately close at hand at Read More

The day is so beautiful, sunny and above freezing in February Montreal. I was surprised at walking out to the market with loving kindness on my mind and in my heart how moved I was. Pretty much to tears. To Read More

Noticing tiny flashes, old habits of judgement. Yesterday I particularly noticed a tiny little flash across my consciousness, a little trace of Awareness. This was my reflex reaction to thinking of a woman I know.  What flashed across was the Read More

Very challenging passages these days, feeling terrible! For sure I have been able to alleviate at least some of my suffering by stepping back to observe. Or catching myself as I skip into self indulgence.

It has been absolutely fascinating these past few days, to begin to see the complexity of emotions that I had never really thought to question. Something that was fixed has begun to move and shift and change. I am fascinated Read More

The idea of paying attention to unpleasant feelings instead of shunning them or turning away came as a big surprise. Yesterday I had a tiny millisecond flash. I felt a familiar twinge of dread  around the idea of my death. Read More