Advancing While Retreating What is it like to meditate for a month? 10 May, 2021 by Catherine Pawasarat Sensei Advancing In Meditation Retreat What is it like to meditate for a month? I embark on annual month-long meditation retreats. It took me nearly twenty years of...
Be a Stubborn Toddler and Other Tips for Meditation 23 MARCH, 2019 Be a Stubborn Toddler and Other Tips for Meditation The Wandering Mind Blues Every meditator gets frustrated by the wandering mind. Don’t worry. Your mind is used to being busy and active and when you...
Human Consciousness is a Palace 12 JANUARY, 2019 Human Consciousness is Vast What is the most salient fact of your existence? You are “Conscious”. This is what makes you a human being. You are a human being because you are conscious. There is this huge palace sitting...
The Mind is Empty Yet Manifests Phenomena The mind in essence is empty. But that doesn’t stop phenomena from happening. The mind is going to manifest phenomena. Surely. Without ceasing. Always. By learning to dive beneath the waves of the phenomena we can find the...
In the normal course of events, we rely on what we already know and have done. However, living based on security can get stale and repetitive. When we choose the risk of spiritual adventure and growth, vitality comes with new learning. From this emerges awe and...
Most of us spend a large percentage of our lives at our workplace. For people aspiring to grow, to wake up and to be of service, we quickly come to some burning questions. How can my work life really support and contribute to my spiritual growth? And how does the...
Do you want more freedom? And what do you mean by “freedom?” There’s political freedom, freedom of expression and freedom of opportunity, all of which are action oriented, external manifestations. We can also enjoy freedom from troubled mind states and freedom from...
Shifts and Changes Just 10 years ago this teaching was more focused around meditation and individual therapy, and more yogic, that is, dependent on the student-teacher relationships wherever in the world that might be happening. A mere decade later, we have a...
Purification is the path Though the spiritual path can be a long and winding road, some good news is that the only work we really have to do is purification – everything else naturally follows from there. In that sense, our spiritual unfoldment is simple and easily...
This is an excerpt from the Kyoto Journal article ‘Moving Into the Stream: An Interview with Dharma Teacher Achariya Doug Duncan” by Brendan Joseph Ries. People have busy lives because they’re afraid of being not busy. We want to go to every movie, see...
