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Mindfulness of Eating

February 11, 2012

By JEFF GORDINIER

TRY this: place a forkful of food in your mouth. It doesn’t matter what the food is, but make it something you love — let’s say it’s that first nibble from three hot, fragrant, perfectly cooked ravioli.

Now comes the hard part. Put the fork down. This could be a lot more challenging than you imagine, because that first bite was very good and another immediately beckons. You’re hungry.

Tidying Up the Mental Household

January 17, 2012

If anyone whose mind is not harmonized through meditative training should take a close look at his own everyday thoughts and activities, he will meet with a rather disconcerting sight. Apart from the few main channels of his purposeful thoughts and activities, he will everywhere be faced with a tangled mass of perceptions, thoughts, feelings and casual bodily movements, showing a disorderliness and confusion which he would certainly not tolerate in his living room.

Arahants, Bodhisattvas, and Buddhas

October 24, 2011

The Pali Nikayas (collection of teachings or sutras from the Pali Canon which is the oldest record of the Buddha’s original teachings with a present day thriving lineage, Theravada: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/    Pali_Canon) and kindred texts of the same genre are regarded as the most reliable records we have of the original teachings of the Buddha. Of course since the Buddha himself wrote nothing down, we have no direct access to what he really taught.

Stillness

August 01, 2011

By Ananda Pereira

“As in ocean mid-deeps
No wave arises, but all is still —
So be still, unmoved;
Let the mindfulness meditator nowhere entertain pride.”

— Tuvataka Sutta, Suttanipata

Deep down in the sea, where the sea is really deep, half a mile, a mile, two miles below the surface, all is still. Here there are no tempests, no storms. There is none of the fuss and bother that beset surface waters and shallows.

Managing Stress

July 13, 2011

By Lily de Silva

Enlightened?

June 22, 2011

What Does It Mean To Be Enlightened?

By Bhikkhu Bodhi

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