To assist Dhamma Projects’ focus in exploring how meditators integrate their practice of Vipassana out of the centre and into the world of the householder, we would like to share a recent conversation exploring this subject in the three parts. If you missed the first part of the conversation you can find it here, and the …
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Vote With Your Time
People often talk about voting with your money. When you buy organic food, you support that industry, and when you buy fast food, you support that industry. This makes sense to me, but a bigger issue that I hear far less frequently is how we vote with our time. People seem to feel that they …
Young Meditators will Flock to Urban Centers
In my experience, establishing a daily practice is harder than sitting a 10-day course. A big part of this challenge comes from trying to follow a different path from everyone else. There is a tremendous amount of support that comes from having even one other meditator to sit with regularly. The idea of having an …
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Can you color your emotions?
How often do people feel ‘butterflies in their stomach’ or go ‘weak on their knees’? Or get a ‘hot head’ during the argument? Or having ‘cold feet’ and what about those occasional ‘feeling blue’? Repeated and collective practice of getting associated with the ‘bodily feeling’ rather than with the mental ability to cognize and assess the …
Is Vipassana About Buddhism?
by Naveen from Mumbai, India "Vipassana" has created a furore in my house. The moment me and my wife utter this word, my sons say "Oh no, and now you will talk about Vipassana." Others in the family believe that it is a Buddhist technique and something that has to do with "Buddhism". Yes, it …
Glorify the Precepts
Life can be overwhelming. It might be overwhelming more often than not. We all of different strategies to recharge our batteries and one of the most abundant is to escape for a little while. People might go to a bar, on vacation, to a show, or simply turn on the television. These escapes allow us …
Understanding Dharma
I have been exploring my understanding of Dharma and the role it plays in my life. According to one source I found Dharma can be defined as 'a preventive measure', 'it is something we do to avoid problems'. I chose to highlight this definition in my last blog because I liked its simplicity, but further …
The Joint Fight Against Suffering
As a kid, it doesn't take long to see that conflict and war are a part of civilization. We also see how groups of people with diverse backgrounds can unify when a common enemy appears. With my simple child mind I remember wondering, "What if aliens attacked? Would the world unite against this common enemy?" …
A Pure Mind is a Loving Mind
This statement is a fact I've learned through my meditation practice. If this fact was universally understood, the way the world functions would change. The movies in our society support the idea that there is good and evil everywhere. The good guys my face the bad guys, and the fate of the world hangs in …
Accepting the Hypocrisy
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 …
Living Vipassana 