{"id":420,"date":"2025-03-08T19:41:41","date_gmt":"2025-03-08T19:41:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/snowlionmeditationcommunity.org\/?page_id=420"},"modified":"2026-09-08T21:59:43","modified_gmt":"2026-09-09T01:59:43","slug":"articles-by-community","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/snowlionmeditationcommunity.org\/index.php\/resources\/articles-by-community\/","title":{"rendered":"Articles by the Community"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"has-dark-bg is-style-boxed wp-block-themeisle-blocks-posts-grid\" id=\"wp-block-themeisle-blocks-posts-grid-1d78851c\"><div class=\"is-list\"><div class=\"o-posts-grid-post-blog o-posts-grid-post-plain\"><div class=\"o-posts-grid-post\"><div class=\"o-posts-grid-post-body is-full\"><h2 class=\"o-posts-grid-post-title\"><a href=\"https:\/\/snowlionmeditationcommunity.org\/index.php\/2025\/07\/11\/meditation-an-end-to-solutions\/\">Meditation: An End to\u00a0Solutions<\/a><\/h2><p class=\"snowlion-listing-meta\">By Nathan Carey \u00b7 October 2017<\/p><div class=\"o-posts-grid-post-description\"><p>Nathan Carey reflects on learning to meditate in an MBSR course with Theodore and Adele, and how choosing patient, honest observation over the endless hunt for quick fixes changed how he relates to himself and the people he loves.<\/p><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><div class=\"o-posts-grid-post-blog o-posts-grid-post-plain\"><div class=\"o-posts-grid-post\"><div class=\"o-posts-grid-post-body is-full\"><h2 class=\"o-posts-grid-post-title\"><a href=\"https:\/\/snowlionmeditationcommunity.org\/index.php\/2025\/07\/11\/my-journey-with-dana-into-generosity\/\">My Journey with Dana into\u00a0Generosity<\/a><\/h2><p class=\"snowlion-listing-meta\">By Sandra Thompson \u00b7 September 2017<\/p><div class=\"o-posts-grid-post-description\"><p>Sandra Thompson traces her slow, uneasy journey from following external rules about giving to discovering what dana \u2014 offering \u2018according to your means\u2019 \u2014 means for her, and how that inquiry opened into a wider practice of generosity.<\/p><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><div class=\"o-posts-grid-post-blog o-posts-grid-post-plain\"><div class=\"o-posts-grid-post\"><div class=\"o-posts-grid-post-body is-full\"><h2 class=\"o-posts-grid-post-title\"><a href=\"https:\/\/snowlionmeditationcommunity.org\/index.php\/2025\/07\/11\/the-crossing\/\">The Crossing<\/a><\/h2><p class=\"snowlion-listing-meta\">By Daniel Lafrance<\/p><div class=\"o-posts-grid-post-description\"><p>A classic Zen story in comic form: a monk carries a stranded woman across a river to help her, drawing his companion&#8217;s silent disapproval for hours afterward \u2014 until he&#8217;s asked why he&#8217;s still carrying something set down long ago.<\/p><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><div class=\"o-posts-grid-post-blog o-posts-grid-post-plain\"><div class=\"o-posts-grid-post\"><div class=\"o-posts-grid-post-body is-full\"><h2 class=\"o-posts-grid-post-title\"><a href=\"https:\/\/snowlionmeditationcommunity.org\/index.php\/2025\/07\/11\/the-star-thrower\/\">The Star Thrower<\/a><\/h2><p class=\"snowlion-listing-meta\">By Daniel Lafrance<\/p><div class=\"o-posts-grid-post-description\"><p>An illustrated adaptation of Loren Eiseley&#8217;s classic story: a man walks a beach littered with stranded starfish, throwing them back one at a time. 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