where wisdom and compassion come from Things come and go. Thoughts and feelings come and go without ownership, purely arising out of inner and external conditions. It’s an average day in the galaxy. Take a galactic perspective on your practice. Enabled by Brahmavihara meditation, perhaps, say, Bodhicitta: “All the lonely people where do they all…
From December 9th I am planning another three month retreat. Before that will be a run-up of several weeklong retreats. For those I only have one title so far: “the dharma of dying and death” starting on 27th August. For the rest, I’m still looking for dharma themes. I want to find the things we…
prefer links to audio files? 1 Body 2 Feeling 3 Mind 4 Insight Stages Anapanasati 1 of 4 I suggest you have your eyes closed and just allow as much as you can your attention to settle in all the quietening, stilling processes of the body most of these happen just on their own but it’s good to establish awareness…
After the long retreat, I have a month’s break. And we are still in lockdown. That seems great, like the retreat never stopped, but it’s not the same mind! Streams of interest and concern popping out that had no place on retreat but now it’s their time. Coming events, holidays, the summer, and visits to…
There are many approaches that evolved in Buddhist tradition that enable the aims of the entire ‘system of practice’ — to address and integrate all elements in the mind, to cultivate love and compassion, to meet spiritual death or seeing through of the ego, the deeper transformational training in insight that comes out of that,…
How the meditations we did on the recent long retreat evolved as they did, into the detailed practice of Anapanasati and Sadhana meditation.
A commentary on the pointing out instruction in the Mahakarunika Sadhana.