This is my fourth post on Living Vipassana. I have been excited about being a contributor here from Day 1. It was exactly the right addition to my week; it fits perfectly with how I am carving out my life and where I want it to head. For example, although regular meditation has always been an …
Month: July 2014
The Words…
I was thinking about the power of words, and I wanted to start today with Mr. Cohen verses: Do Not Be a Magician - Be Magic. Leonard is certainly a master with the words but then I realized that the words we use can be both - magic or evil. There are many words we …
Love Is Not Vulnerable
Hollywood has been mutating our understanding of love for a long time. We have this idea that we give our hearts away to someone and we depend on that person to protect it. Essentially, we are at the mercy of this individual. What I've learned from meditation is that love is the opposite of vulnerable. …
Don’t Waste Your Sorry’s
There's a story I heard about the first time Goenka visited the Dhamma Surabhi (The Vipassana centre in Merritt, B.C.) Everyone was getting ready for the first meditation with Goenkaji, which I imagine would be exciting, or tiring, considering his energy is so high that I would probably pass out meditating next to him. Right …
Life Balance
Balance is important in life. Before Vipassana, I was very unhappy with my life but did not know why. Yes, there were some things that obviously needed to be changed to shift the mood, however, they were all rooted in deeper unresolved, unaddressed, non-identified issues. A little over a year before I sat my first …
Add “Let Go of This” to your To-Do List
There’s the old romantic cliché about liking long walks on the beach and then there's the reality of long walks on the beach resulting in feet blistered from the sand and shoulders from the sun. I’ve taken half-day-long journeys down the shore every summer since I was 17. The only thing romantic about them is …
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