Awareness Test
Test your powers of observation with these fun videos…
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Alive to Each Moment – Sunrise from Mount Fuji
When ascending Fuji, ‘walls of doubt’ appear before trekkers – steep ascents, volcano ash, ice and snow…
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Taming the Tyranny of the Busy Mind
Years of practice got me to the cushion. After I got there, I remembered why…
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Focusing
Focusing gets under habitual mental, emotional or psychological processes and brings us to a deeper level…
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The Silence of the Mind – Living in the Moment
Ilie Cioara describes the practice of “Self-knowing” using all-encompassing Attention.
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A World In Love with Itself
A World In Love With Itself: Life in the Rainforest
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Magis – A Call to Excellence
If you are going to achieve excellence in big things, you develop the habit in little matters.
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Choose Your Mantra with Care
Is happiness a choice, or a matter of circumstances and disposition? Buddhists would say we have a choice, and I agree.
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From the Mouths of Babes
“You no never mean to me. You always nice to me. You a good person.”
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A Light in the Dark
“The darker it gets, the more brightly the light shines”
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The Awakening
There comes a time when you finally get it… Enough fighting and crying or struggling to hold on.
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“Metta” and the English Problem
Within a fortnight, the gloom was dispelled and I felt wonderful….
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This is Water – David Foster Wallace
Real education has almost nothing to do with knowledge, and everything to do with simple awareness…
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A Fleet of Bodhisattvas
“As Buddhist nun, I travel with no money. I don’t have so much as a dime, quarter or credit card with me “
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The Grass-is-Greener
“Nothing happens next. This is it.”
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A Bit of Undaunted Silence
“so many shadows whirl, one into another, in silence…”
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No Difference
“…no difference between us except degrees…”
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The lady who forgot her shopping
How can we bring mindfulness from meditation practice into ordinary life?
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Hand in Hand
Hand in Hand – Beautiful Ballet Dancers – she with one arm; he with one leg…
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One-Moment Meditation
Is it Possible to Meditate in a Moment? If being peaceful is possible now, and is only possible now, then you might as well get right to it.
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Fixing the Hole in my Heart
How to mend a broken heart with simple meditation techniques. An inspiring real life story about love and clarity.
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