What to do when we find ourselves applying conditioning from our religion of origin to Buddhism.
Tag Archives | mindfulness
Being a Dharma community
There is value in practicing and meditating with others. When we participate in our Dharma community, the practice of everyone in the group flourishes.
The great illusion of duality
The extremes of reward and terror are but illusions. In a poem, a student examines the nature of true balance.
“An Open-Hearted Life”: Mindful awareness
Mindful awareness helps us to observe, accept and take responsibility for our emotions, so we can work with them, rather than letting them dictate our actions.
Getting rid of my buttons
Wrong conceptions lie at the root of many of the problems we encounter in dealing with others. Here we examine how to use logic to counteract such thoughts.
The practice of mindfulness
The differences between Buddhist mindfulness and secular mindfulness practices. The four establishments of mindfulness and the misconceptions they dispel.
Meditation with noise
An inmate experiences many distractions in his attempt to meditate in prison. This is how he deals with them.
Finding the self
Teaching on the compatibility of dependent arising and emptiness.
Dependent designation
Teaching on how everything depends on thought, and an explanation of the analogy of the rope and the snake that is often used to explain emptiness.
Dependent arising and emptiness
How to see ourselves as an illusion instead of buying into our usual distorted view of reality.
