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Dhammas: The 3 Keys to Insight Meditation

Dhammas: The 3 Keys to Insight Meditation

Vipassana meditation is usually translated as "Insight Meditation" because the practice quite naturally triggers off a process of purification that develops progressively through stages of insight knowledge. With each stage, a meditator incrementally gains...

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Living Dharma

We need to co-create a new story from a different understanding of ourselves. Somehow, we need to finish with the old stories that imprison human consciousness in cycles of fear, violence, shame, and a...

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Being with Change is a Skill

Reading the discourses of the Buddha, we find regular reminders to be aware of the changing and fluctuating nature of all experience. Maybe he repeated it this often to counterbalance the natural tendency of...

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No Lesser Wing

Metta until the boundaries between you and all beings dissolve. Compassion until your heart covers the whole world. Joy to remember why this life is worth living. Equanimity to see the long arc of...

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“We Are a River”

The symbol of the river has been used for centuries across cultures and traditions, to remind us of the flowing, fluid nature of all that is existent in the cosmos. From ancient Chinese Daoist...

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Connection as Dharma Practice

Connection as Dharma Practice

The Buddha taught that friendship is not just part of, but the whole of the spiritual life. But how do you begin when in the face of intimacy your fears, insecurities, doubt and judgment...

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Metta-Vipassana Integrating Heart and Mind

Metta-Vipassana: Integrating Heart and Mind

Within the classical texts we learn to develop mindfulness within four foundations of experience. We learn to work with our bodies, feelings, mental states and mental activities and various frames of reference. Within the...

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