Michele Pasin / Quotes

Vipassana as a way out of breakdown

After the best part of a year, my failure to make any progress at all had brought me close to nervous breakdown. In fact, I think I would have cracked up (Gurdjieff students do) if it hadn’t been for my discovery of vipassana, the Buddhist meditation technique in which you concentrate on your breath to give yourself some purchase on the present moment.

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The Buddhist roots of mindfulness

The practice of mindfulness goes back thousands of years. Many spiritual traditions have encouraged presence in the moment as a way to be in touch with our…

A Practical Guide to Mindfulness (Tessa Watt) #mindfulness #Buddhism #meditation #West

Il momento migliore per piantare un albero

Il momento migliore per piantare un albero era 20 anni fa. Il secondo miglior momento è ora.” Proverbio Cinese

La Formica Zen (italian Edition) ( ) #time #action #present

In ogni momento c'è tutto il tempo

In ogni cosa si concentrano tutte le cose, in ogni momento c’è tutto il tempo. La pratica può cominciare solo con questa consapevolezza.11 È il principio…

Lo Spirito del Giappone (Leonardo Vittorio Arena) #time #zen #aesthetics #unity #present

L'istante presente è il cuore del mondo

Non si costruisce l’avvenire sognando il futuro, ma concentrando il desiderio e la volonta’ sull’istante presente. Non c’e’ altra via. L’istante presente e’…

La Formica Zen (italian Edition) ( ) #present #moment #future

Plato's third, androgynous sex

"At the beginning there were three sexes, not just the two sexes, the male and the female, as at present; there was a third kind that shared the…

Sexuality And Gender In The Classical World - Readings And Sources #sex #males #name #present

The breath as an anchor

When you bring awareness to your breath, it is this breath, in this moment – not last year’s breath or tomorrow’s breath. The breath is closely connected to…

A Practical Guide to Mindfulness (Tessa Watt) #mindfulness #body #mind #present