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#meditation
A Practical Guide to Mindfulness (Tessa Watt)
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 inner selves, or the divine. Buddhism has made mindfulness a core part of its teachings, more so than any other tradition…
Befriending the person you already are
The kind of meditation we use in mindfulness training is not about going off into altered states, trying to get to some better place. It’s not about sitting in the lotus position in flowing white robes on a turquoise beach, as the advertising posters would have it – pleasant…
Bring the mind back a hundred times
If your mind wanders from the breath a hundred times, just bring it back a hundred times. See if you can escort your awareness back to the breath with kindness and good humour. This is the practice: not keeping the mind fixed in one place, but bringing the mind back, over and…
The busy monkey mind
When you start to meditate, you may find it shocking how active your mind is. It flits from one thought to another, often without any obvious logic. It may feel like a monkey leaping from tree to tree. You may even think, ‘I was looking for calm, but when I started to meditate…
Erik Davis - On Psychedelics
Psychedelics can serve as flight simulators
Like many of the death-prep meditations practised in Tibetan Buddhism and other initiatory traditions, psychedelics — provided, again, within an appropriate set and setting — can serve as flight simulators hurtling us through the shadow of death, test runs of the inevitable…
How To Develop A Mind That Clings To Nothing : Zen Habits
Practice meditation
Practice daily meditation, in the morning, for 5-10 minutes for at least a month. Extend it to 10-15 minutes after a month. Notice when you are putting off meditation (clinging to wanting to check your phone), or when you are wanting to get up from your seat before meditation…
La Formica Zen (italian Edition) ( )
Un tempo di silenzio ogni giorno
“ Includi un tempo di silenzio nella tua vita quotidiana e troverai le ricchezze del mondo” (Jayadev Jaerschky)
Coltivare il silenzio interiore
Il primissimo esercizio spirituale che bisogna adottare è il coltivare il silenzio interiore che mette fine al dialogo continuo con la mente. Fate che questa riposi per un po', non usatela per progettare dettagli irrilevanti né inquinatela con i fumi dell'invidia e…
Lo Spirito del Giappone (Leonardo Vittorio Arena)
Koan (definizione)
Koan. Materiale per la meditazione nello Zen, spesso un aneddoto o una sentenza su cui riflettere. Allorché svaniscano tutte le possibilità di una interpretazione razionale o emotiva si coglie il vuoto, la spontaneità, o l’illuminazione.
Shikantaza (definizione)
Shikantaza. «Il puro e semplice sedersi in meditazione»: termine Zen. Si scoraggia l’illusione secondo cui la meditazione comporterebbe l’attingimento di una mèta.
Maximize Your Child's Bilingual Ability (Adam Beck)
Daily reflection protects what matters most
If you find yourself feeling frazzled, and your own greater priorities—like devoting time and energy to your children’s language development—getting shortchanged by pressing, but less important activities, then some form of daily meditation or quiet reflection could be helpful…
The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People (Stephen R. Covey)
Affirmation and visualization as programming
I believe that central to all enduring religions in society are the same principles and practices clothed in different language—meditation, prayer, covenants, ordinances, scripture study, empathy, compassion, and many different forms of the use of both conscience and…
The Acid Diaries (Christopher Gray)
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…
Letting go into beauty
I had ever felt truly meditative on a trip. The acid hadn’t been played out at all. The same sense of boundaries dissolving, which had allowed me to become one with people on the street, was granting this gentler, sweeter sense of empathy with wind and water and trees. I felt I…
The present moment as the only place without suffering
This is the very worst of the worst, I remember thinking—when, lunging unannounced like the other insane emotional swings of the afternoon, the pain just vanished into thin air. I found myself gazing around the apartment as though it were the very heart of the Mystery. There…
Standing apart as the pure witness
Again I found a luminously clear reflection of what had happened in Nisargadatta Maharaj. Consciousness coming apart from its identification with matter plays a crucial role in I Am That. Speaking of meditation, Nisargadatta says: When the mind is quiet, we come to know…
Psychedelics as door openers
Earlier we looked briefly at the career of the American teacher Ram Dass. Here was someone who had been deeply involved with psychedelics who, while continuing to acknowledge the importance of the role they had played in his life, returned to more traditional forms of religion…
The Daily Routines Of 7 Famous Entrepreneurs And How To Design Your Own Master Routine (belle Beth Cooper)
Disengaging from work
Our CEO, Joel, has written about his own routine before, and I really like how he explains his nightly wind-down habits: Disengage: An activity to allow total disengagement from the day’s work. For me, this is going for a 20 minute walk every evening at 9:30pm. This is a wind…
The Ego Trick (baggini, Julian)
Death like changing house
For him, all that matters is that everybody says he is the first reincarnation of Akong, and that means he must have the same qualities. ‘Then I have to serve the best that I can for the benefit of people whenever I can. I’m not here to investigate the first Akong.’ Nor does he…