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Carefree Dignity
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on Monday, May 24th, 2010 “Being carefree, you can fit in anywhere. If you’re not carefree you keep on bumping up against things. Your life becomes so narrow, so tight; it gets very claustrophobic. Carefree means being wide open from within, not constricted. Carefree doesn’t mean careless. It is not that you don’t care about others, not that you don’t [...]
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All day mindfulness practice
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on Saturday, May 15th, 2010 During steps one and two we do our level best to keep our attention pinned to the object of focus – the breath. The biggest obstacle to achieving this single pointed concentration are the thoughts. The meditation instructions remind us over and over to not engage in the thoughts. When a thought arises, do [...]
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Meditation or Relaxation?
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on Wednesday, March 17th, 2010 Yesterday Simone and I were doing meditation presentation for two great groups of heath professionals. Interestingly; the same comments came up at both seminars. “I use meditation to help me to relax and fall asleep and during the meditation practice today I fell asleep”. It is important to understand [...]
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Commitment and Experience
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on Tuesday, February 9th, 2010 If the experience is not what we expected when we made our commitment, should we drop the commitment? Are commitment and experience connected? Does our commitment depend on our experience? In my humble opinion, my answer is no. The commitment has nothing to do with the [...]
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From Shamatha to Vipassana
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on Monday, January 18th, 2010 Shamatha meditation is taught in Steps 1 and 2 of our Mindfulness Meditation Program. Shamatha is translated as calm abiding or quiescence and its purpose is to give us the opportunity to experience a state of calm silence and single pointed concentration. The result is an experience of exceptional mental health and balance. [...]
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The Mind in Meditation
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on Monday, December 28th, 2009 What do I do with my mind in meditation?
The first problem we encounter when meditating is that our minds do not want to cooperate. We want the mind to focus on the breath but it runs off in every direction. We need to learn how to manage and relax the mind to in [...] -
The Breath in Meditation
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on Friday, December 11th, 2009 When we are meditating we do not alter or change the breath in any way. One of the greatest reasons to meditate is to see things just as they are, same with the breath during meditation – we just observe it, we do not change it. During the first two steps of [...]
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What Brings Us To Meditation?
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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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The Constant Interruption of Thoughts
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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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Retreat
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on Thursday, October 29th, 2009 As wonderful as it is to meditate every day, you will find that it is very helpful to do meditation retreats now and again. They help you to strengthen and deepen your practice by being completely immersed in meditation and only meditation all day long. There are all sorts of mediation retreats [...]
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