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The Lord Buddha found the path leading us out of suffering. He said 1. There is suffering, 2. there is a cause why we suffer, 3. this suffering can be abandoned, 4. and here is the path that will lead you out of suffering. This is the simple yet profo ...
As the attention rests on the flow of life the pulse of being all the tentacles and suckers get drawn back in, moving outwards we seek, suck avert push away..forever caught in a world of push pull…of trains travelling through different sta ...
Listening to Ajahn Achalo’s talk earlier about meditating on body parts got me thinking. True i find it easy to drop into a quieter space when i feel the body. The body contemplation is a bit like that. When we look at the body and think it is beautiful o ...
Drawn out of sage-like composure By the promise of love and loss Should I return to the wisdom of knowing Or indulge yet again in the chaos of Pain and Pleasure He says “yes” my heart jumps up Happiness, Joy, Exuberance flows out He says “no” Pa ...
The Pali term nīvaraṇa (Sanskrit: nivāraṇa) refers to an obstacle or hinderance. In the Nīvaraṇa Sutta (AN 9:64) the Buddha says “Mendicants, these five hindrances (nīvaraṇas) are destroyers of sight, vision, and knowledge. They block wisdom, they’re o ...
My first experience of chanting was at the Yoga Teacher's Training Course at Yogapoint. It was way back in 2007, I enrolled for the month-long course to dive deeper into the practice of yoga. I was very much married to my job those days and years would pa ...