I remember waking up to problems bigger than myself. I remember things feeling so hard to change but, nonetheless, believing they could. And I thought, as I was taught, that my duty was to help create that change. I felt frequent anger at who I perceived to be the cause of destruction and injustice and …
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Addiction
The conditioned mind keeps on returning to the same place, time and again without knowing either the route of the journey or the purpose of it. The mind is addicted to reach a certain box of known feelings covered by the comfort of knowingness. From substance addiction to the pornography, does the mind know what …
Learning from aditthana
Every Vipassana meditator has a different technique to enduring aditthana. Also in life everyone has different techniques to being able to endure difficult situations, where they feel they might explode. This short piece invites you to consider the sitting of aditthana, a key requisite of sitting a 10 day course, and what insight it can …
When opinion is no more a tool to decide
Inside our head we carry an in-built measuring scale. This scale is no less unique than the finger prints or irises. However this scale is not something which we are genetically endowed with but it is something we develop. The entire stimulus received and all the reactions generated in one’s existence so far are working …
Helping Each Other Live The Life Of Dharma
Dhamma Projects invites you to take part in a global experiment taking place both face to face and online. Once a month, where possible at the same time, Vipassana communities across the world will sit together with the aim to support and encourage each other to live the life of dharma. What that means and looks …
Maintenance as Love (Part 2)
Maintenance is the work of keeping something in proper condition. There is a difference between attaining a condition and maintaining that condition. Goals involving attainment are usually accompanied by a sense of urgency, enthusiasm, and the promise of a relatively quick payoff. Maybe the goal is to create a fancy garden in an abandoned courtyard, …
Making myself available
I prefer to believe that I am quite efficient at cooking. For last seven years or so I have been preparing my meal. Washing the vegetables, chopping them finely, frying at right temperature, knowing things like exactly how many pinches of spices would make the dish taste perfect or how many minutes of boiling would be optimum usually …
Maintenance as Love (Part 1)
“People don’t visit me anymore,” my grandmother says over the phone. “I guess they’re all too busy.” Loneliness has made her voice more tender than usual. I start feeling the urge to leap over her pain by changing the subject to something lighter, brighter, more superficial. But when she stops to apologize for talking about …
Pilgrimage into the Heart of Burmese Dhamma
by Branden Macie From January 2012 to March 2012 a nickel of wisdom arose in me while serving long-term at Dhamma Patapa in Jesup, Georgia, U.S.A. I was there to strengthen my individual walk in Dhamma and to share my merits with others who came for meditation alongside other meditators who wanted to apply the …
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There’s no news at all
Days are paler. Nights are calmer. Dramas are becoming rarer. Strangers appear as benign as long forgotten friends. Instead of being in the central locus I step aside. Adrenalin rushes are making room for stillness as past and future are making room for the present. Present, a water droplet, captured in a quick shot, at …
Living Vipassana 