Two hours a day seems like a huge investment until you consider why you're doing it. We, as a society, spend so much time trying to solve issues like gun control, violence, and environmental destruction when we haven't even solved the most simple and important questions that impact every moment of our daily life. First, …
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A second post by Dipanshu Mansingka from Hyderabad, India As a student one is getting 4th rank in the class every time. While studying in the class one day this person gets a thought to come first next time. This desire to come first gives a pleasant sensation and he starts rolling into those thoughts to …
Three years into my Vipassana journey I'm needing to accept just how slow the process of changing the habit pattern of the mind is. I'm so used to finding quick fix solutions like 8 minute abs and pills that solve problems that I'm still trying to understand what it means for this path to be a life …
This post is from a guest writer named Dipanshu Mansingka living in Hyderabad, India: My mother took me to Dhammagiri when I was 9 years old studying in 3rd standard. She sat a course and I was staying in the hall (present day Main office). Some volunteers used to help me getting food. At times …
Until recently I thought that there was a continuous gradient between the lifestyles of various householders and a monk. I thought that as you progressed on the path your life would become more and more monastic. I was neglecting the fundamental difference between these two paths. While a monk has given up all material possession …
As the surface layers of my mind have slowly been purified, living daily life has slowly become easier. The stark contrast between dhamma life and the life I lived prior to meditating made for a stormy transition. I've changed the way I eat, work, communicate, and exercise. I've changed who I spend time with and …
Meditation has made me more proactive about my heathcare. I'm used to living in a very reactive system where we only go to the doctor when we get sick, we only stop doing harmful things like drinking, smoking, and eating fast foods when they're literally killing us, and we only exercise as much as we need …
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