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Wake Up Get Up
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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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Trying to make practice my vocation
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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?
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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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Inner Practice
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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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Pilgrimage to the Cave in the Snow
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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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Meditate Until the Fear is Gone
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on Saturday, September 11th, 2010 Why? How? What? These are always my questions. Sometimes the questions are too much. Just do it. Just try it. It worked.
Now the question can be: how beautiful is that?
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To read or to practise?
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on Tuesday, August 10th, 2010 Once we are able to observe the mind without distraction, we are able to begin investigation about ourselves and gain clear, intuitive insight.
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What is Wellness?
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on Friday, July 16th, 2010 As our practice matures, we learn to become an objective witness. We learn to watch the mind and not get caught up in the endless chain of thoughts. We learn to receive and let go without all of the drama. This will help transform us.
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Do we need a group to Meditate with?
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on Monday, June 28th, 2010 The best meditation resolution for me was to just do it and ignore the rest of mental chatter giving me reasons not to do it right now.
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Meditate from the Heart
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on Wednesday, June 23rd, 2010 As busy modern people we tend to process our daily activities, our difficulties, our traumas and everything else in the head; with the brain. As a result we are used to using this as our ‘center’. When we use the brain as the center during meditation, it can be very difficult to [...]
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