Genuine spiritual practice is never about fixing ourselves, because we’re not broken. It’s about becoming awake to who we really are, to the vastness of our true nature, which includes even the parts of ourselves we label as ‘bad.’
PODCAST: In part 8, we cover the first of the Meditation Trainings of the Eightfold Path: Right Effort.
An exploration the dimension of the teacher Guru: mentor, exemplar and dangerous friend.
PODCAST: This podcast reviews the Buddha's practical instructions on how we can act, speak and live in ways that are skillful, selfless and wholesome.
Norman is an example of how meditation can become integrated into a life that contains work, play, creativity, and a breadth of religious thought and action.
The Buddha’s teachings were never meant to be ‘merely’ academic. That said, some of it is pretty heady and an academic approach can be very rewarding. In a short retreat this winter here in Montana, Anam Thubten Rinpoche told the story of studying in France and wishing to visit the city of Pisa in Italy. A […]
Featured post by Gail Holland [This article appeared in IONS Review, No. 59, March-May 2002. Reprinted with permission of the author and the Institute of Noetic Sciences (www.noetic.org ).] When David Steindl-Rast, a Benedictine monk, proposed investigating the “rainbow body,” a phenomenon in which the corpses of highly developed spiritual individuals reputedly vanish within days of […]
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