Meditation Tips

• Wake Up Get Up

  written by YeShey on Wednesday, September 7th, 2011

  Like any positive change, getting to the cushion, waking up a bit earlier – requires effort. At first it may require a lot of effort until it becomes a new habit, a new behaviour, a new way of being.

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• Is ‘Unhappiness’ a requirement for Happiness?

  written by Simone on Thursday, September 1st, 2011

  There is so much talk about happiness today that it seems like anything that makes us happy is good and anything that falls under the ‘unhappiness’ umbrella is bad only to chase the things that create the former and avoid the things that make us feel the latter. Has the pendulum swung [...]

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• Trying to make practice my vocation

  written by YeShey on Wednesday, August 10th, 2011

  Ideally there is little to no separtion from formal sitting pracitse to daily life. Over the years I have learned some of the things that I should take up and some of the things that I should give up. An attempt to stop living in preparation for practice but to make practice my vocation.

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• How Can We Use the Body to Study the Mind?

  written by YeShey on Saturday, July 30th, 2011

  The postures of yoga were designed thousands of years ago to help those that were interested in gaining deeper levels of insight, to first, calm the nervous system. The integration of awareness of the breath and the senses with the movement of the body were used to bridge the (apparent) gap between the body and [...]

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• Stillness & Effort

  written by Simone on Tuesday, June 28th, 2011

  A yogi instructed in class the other day that, “the only effort you need to expend is the effort it takes to bring you to the present moment.” All of our decisions, choices, and actions are best made from this moment. Not “in reaction to” but rather from a place of stillness, only accessible in [...]

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• Meditation at Work

  written by Simone on Sunday, May 1st, 2011

  After meditation practice, I often feel peaceful, calm, serene, a sense of connection, openness, inner joy and relaxation … and then I go to work … and poof within the hour my connection to this inner state has disappeared. Where does it go?  How do we cultivate a more mindful work environment? Can we make [...]

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• Is “patience” a state of mind?

  written by Simone on Saturday, April 2nd, 2011

  I struggle with patience.  Two phrases make me cringe, ‘be patient’ and ‘have faith.’ I don’t know why. Is it because I am immature or childish and I just want what I want now? Does one have patience because they have faith and trust or is patience something that transcends the content of thoughts and better understood in the context of [...]

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• Inner Practice

  written by YeShey on Thursday, February 3rd, 2011

  Every time I sit down to discuss my practice with my teacher; the first thing that he always reminds me is that the inner practice is the most important. I also hear  Jetsunma Tenzin Palmo commenting again and again on the need for each of us to watch our mind. What if [...]

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• What are you making most important in your day right now?

  written by Simone on Sunday, December 5th, 2010

  Ekhart Tolle uses the question, “what are you making most important in your day right now?” to ask yourself everyday to bring peace and purpose to your life.
  For a week I did it and thought, oh it is going to be “work” (unfortunately at the moment I am thinking about work lots and therefore putting work first). [...]

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• Pilgrimage to the Cave in the Snow

  written by YeShey on Sunday, October 24th, 2010

  Thirty of us met in Northern India to embark on an 18 day pilgrimage led by Jetsunma Tenzin Palmo. During these 18 days we were able to get a glimpse of the places that she spent time and the people that influenced her years  in India including the in the cave she practiced in for [...]

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