I think that as long as we do our best in each moment we are on the path of Dhamma. That doesn't have to be direct meditation. It has to simply do with being good to ourselves and anyone else. Everyone has the potential for that, just like we can all become Buddha. We all …
Category: Helping Others
A Serious Game
Next to me my brother and a few friends are sitting down to play Super Smash Brothers Melee. It's an old fighting game for Gamecube that has recently become more popular. If you haven't played it, it combines all the great Nintendo characters into a single platform level where you have to knock each other …
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 …
Serving on a ten day course
I was able to arrive a day and half before the course began to help set up. I prefer landing in the almost ghost town like feel between courses, rather than the hustle and bustle of everyone arriving and settling in. When asked by the management to go into household my ego reacted. I had …
One Year of Blogging
We made it! This blog, which started one year ago as a personal journal to help me process through the many changes Vipassana has brought to my life, has become supportive community of meditators around the world. We've had over 16,000 hits averaging over 44 hits per day. That's hard to believe! What's even more …
Serving on a ten day course
I have half packed my bag. I have ticked off my 'to do' list, leaving only this post to do before I set off on another Vipassana adventure, my first on Living Vipassana. Tomorrow I shall be serving at Dhamma Dipa, the main centre in the U.K, about four hours from where I live in London. …
How can Therapy and Dhamma Best Complement Each Other?
I've worked on myself in so many different ways; through art, dream work, various kinds of yoga, meditation; presently, vipassana meditation, but never have I gone to therapy. I’m now seriously considering therapy as a future line of work, and I want to be sure I understand the value of the service, and how it …
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How do you do it?
Yesterday I got inquiries about Vipassana from an unexpected quarter. My eye doctor’s receptionist/assistant was using a machine to measure various aspects of my eyes. The process requires that I stare at a lighted green cross that moves around in the viewer, while holding my head very still, and this goes on with each eye …
Sharing the news
“Speak of Zen only after the third request.” So say the Zen masters regarding telling others about the wonders of Zen meditation. In the Vipassana world, there’s no clear rule such as suggested by the ‘third request,’ but there is a similar feeling that it’s best to be circumspect about sharing your experience – a …
Living Vipassana 