When too much of my time is usurped by obligations, I start feeling like a robot that had to rip her own heart out just to get by. I chose to teach and coach and study permaculture, all at once. I knew I was making for a busy few months. And I knew coming into …
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A chance meeting at half past twelve
It was half past twelve. I had half a dozen to-do-things in my basket to be completed before 3:30 o’clock. I was rushing towards the university canteen for the lunch which had to be finished by next ten minutes. Obviously these ten minutes included the time needed to reach the third floor canteen, reaching the counter …
A Way of Life
Life is complicated and difficult. To deal with the stress and anxiety we search for various coping mechanisms. For quite some time I found meditation to be the ultimate coping mechanism to deal with life. As I've maintained my daily practice over several years, I've discovered a significant shift. Instead of helping me cope with …
Struggling for Metta
So as I approach my second 10 days retreat which is coming up in five days I can reflect on the fact that i have been able to keep a very consistent practice through this first year of Vipassana. Even with life changes, schedule complications and some traveling, i always managed to keep my practice. …
Is our happiness relative?
Everyone wants to be happy but do we really know what is happiness? Do we understand that state of mind? Our definition of happiness is always relative to something. We rely on others for our own happiness. We rely on performance appraisals to make us happy, we reply on accolades from others to make us …
A New Understanding
By Naveen from Mumbai, Inda Vipassana was an eye opener. It was an amazing , out of life experience for me. It was as if the locked door of knowledge was opened. While I write this I would confess that to put my thoughts on paper will not be easy and may not be understood …
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 …
Meditation in San Francisco Schools
Check out this interesting article about how meditation is helping transform some rough schools in San Francisco. http://www.sfgate.com/opinion/openforum/article/Meditation-transforms-roughest-San-Francisco-5136942.php#src=fb
“Autobiography in five chapters”
What am I doing NOW? Whenever in stress, feeling insecured about the future or repentant about the past, I tell myself to get a hold of the present moment. It helps immensely. It is an amazing thing. In fact in my life so far I barely have come across something more amazing than this! It …
Living Vipassana 