Archive for November, 2009

• What Brings Us To Meditation?

  written by YeShey on Thursday, November 26th, 2009

  Most of us come to the spiritual path because we are experiencing something in life that we don’t like, something that we want to overcome.  At some level we have a dissatisfaction, a pain, some form of suffering. Perhaps we have already tried various ways of overcoming the suffering. We found that some methods helped [...]

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• Resistance, a most common approach to life

  written by Simone on Friday, November 20th, 2009

  I watched as my brother started the process of putting his son to bed. His then two and half year old screamed and cried – seems he really didn’t want to go to bed. My brother inquired without judgment, “you can do this the hard way or you can do this the easy way, it is [...]

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• The Constant Interruption of Thoughts

  written by YeShey on Sunday, November 8th, 2009

  The first question that I asked to Jetsunma Tenzin Palmo when I met her was “is it possible for any and every westerner to achieve the state of shamata?”* Her answer was quick and precise…”Yes”.  I was a bit shocked that she answered without making any further statement like ‘if they try hard enough’ or [...]

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• “The hardest thing to do in the world is to show-up”

  written by Simone on Friday, November 6th, 2009

  I was watching Jon Kabat-Zinn’s Mindfulness lecture to Google employees on Youtube and as he spoke these words or something like them I thought “that’s it, isn’t it?” It seems for most of us, or the people I hang-out with, once we start whittling down our wants and needs, once we get past the “once X [...]

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