Whatever next?

By Kamalashila

Sorry these posts are so sporadic. I’m back in hospital this week, Guy’s Hospital this time. I am awaiting a course of chemotherapy starting tomorrow. (What?) My original diagnosis of four months ago was wrong, we discovered only this week. What news! Instead of an untreatable colon cancer they predicted would see me dead by…

An average day in the galaxy

By Kamalashila

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…

The Dharma of Death and Dying Retreat

By Kamalashila

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…

Anapānasati: a handy lead-through for your phone

By Kamalashila

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…

Comments on Anapānasati from the Virtual Vihara retreat

By Kamalashila

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,…