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James Baraz has been teaching meditation for over thirty years He is a co-founder teacher of Spirit Rock Meditation Center in Woodacre, California where he regularly teaches, and he leads retreats and workshops around the United States and abroad. He created the Awakening Joy course, which has had over 9,000 participants on-site and online, since 2003. He is on the International Advisory Board of the Buddhist Peace Fellowship. He lives with his wife, Jane, in Berkeley, California. He is the co-author with Shoshana Alexander of Awakening Joy: 10 Steps that Will Put You on the Road to Real Happiness. His websites are www.awakeningjoy.info
and www.jamesbaraz.com. He can be reached at

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Blog Entries by James Baraz

Anything Can Happen at Any Time: Zen Lessons from Japan

Posted April 1, 2011 | 20:09:36 (EST)

What's happened in Japan affects all of us. Perhaps, like me, you've noticed a sober backdrop of stunned sadness that's been pervading our collective psyche. If we are to become more conscious human beings then each moment can be taken as an opportunity to wake up. What can we learn...

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A Buddhist Perspective on Access to Guns

Posted January 12, 2011 | 18:46:26 (EST)

How can we make sense out of the senseless? When a deranged young man opens fire killing innocent people, what lessons can we take away that can give meaning to the lost lives? Learning something new or deepening our understanding seems to be the best way to honor those who've...

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7 Simple Practices to Really Enjoy the Holidays

Posted December 14, 2010 | 08:50:00 (EST)

With the holidays upon us, is it possible to really make it a season of good cheer? How can we stay grounded and present and truly let ourselves feel the holiday spirit? Though the next gadget or experience may bring fleeting pleasure, genuine happiness is about how we feel inside....

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Can We Afford Joy in a World of Suffering?

Posted November 24, 2010 | 08:50:00 (EST)

Let's face it: it's pretty bad out there. Financial worries. Powerful people ruled by greed and self-interest. Distrust and outright hatred because those who are different seem threatening. A planet, since the beginning of time providing us with indescribable richness and beauty, now so out of whack that our main...

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Frame It With Gratitude

Posted March 3, 2010 | 16:46:09 (EST)

One year I was in Los Angeles visiting my then eighty-nine-year-old mother. I brought with me a copy of Greater Good magazine, a magazine published by a couple of brilliant minds at the University of California at Berkeley. Their focus is on reporting the breaking research on altruism and well-being....

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