As mentioned in my last post, Currently I am conducting an independent research on a very interesting subject – ‘ Role of Vipassana meditation in enhancing Emotional Intelligence’. The survey for validating the hypothesis of research is online now. I am banking on all the Vipassana practitioners because responses of Vipassana practitioners really help me …
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It’s been long time, I haven’t written anything at this space but the absence was there for a reason. First, I was not feeling well because of viral infection. It’s interesting to know how I have responded to that situation with equanimity but in this post I would to share something more interesting. I have …
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Feelings of romantic attraction can be very ungrounding. They evoke a novel kind of storm, and when I get quiet enough in meditation, beneath the pleasured agitation, I come to hear a bubbling undercurrent of possibility….what if this?? what if that?? what if! what if! what if my life completely changed? I suppose it’s a …
I live in a seasonal town that gets EXCEPTIONALLY busy in the summer: theatre shows, coffeehouses, bands, canoe trips, birthdays, and a myriad of "special events". On top of that, I'm in the middle of finishing the creation of my first solo show. Again, I have been missing more sittings than making them. How to …
I've been questing toward a complete alignment of my values with how I spend my time; the time I’m paid for as well as the time I’m not, and it will still probably be a number of years before I get there. Till then, in order to live a secure and balanced life my choices …
Why do people come to a Vipassana course? In talking with people who come to our Center in the Southeast on registration day and Metta day, I find there are almost as many reasons as there are people. There are some common themes, including life crisis, emotional trauma, and long-term need for ‘something more’ in …
Meditation has helped with my perception of the world. When I meditate, I see things closer to the way they actually are. When I don't meditate, my vision gets distorted. Without the centering practice, I start to divide people into better and worse, rather than seeing them as the truly magnificent creatures that they are. …
Painful sensations of sickness can bring a really intense focus to my practice, save the day, and make me much more aware of my default state! I used to have a lot of digestive problems when I was younger; I learned to correct them by listening to my body rather than to doctors. I designed …
“If you meet the Buddha on the road, kill him!” says an old Zen story. This is simply the Zen way of saying, in dramatic and obscure form, that whoever you may meet along the way whom you think to be Buddha is really just your own delusion and should be annihilated. But I have …
In my last post, I talked about the difference between knowing the walking the path. Today, I would like to explore it further. For example, As a neophyte Vipassana meditator, I used to wonder - I know what is anger, I know a great deal of the disastrous effects of anger, yet when the situation …
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