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The Meditation of Life
The Meditation of Life Without exception, everything that has happened in your life, every choice you have made, has brought you to where you are now. And where are you now? You are reading this blog...
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The Winds of Change
The Winds of Change Gone, all is gone. Nothing remains. Completely alone. Silence abounds. Nothing to fight for. No more doing. No more being. The path has been discarded. How sublime to abide in...
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Letting Go
Letting Go The following post is from a friend in Thailand. Roughly, the words translate as: ‘If you let go, time will heal’. This is sound advice. However, better still is not to hold on in the first...
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Do You Really Know Yourself?
Do You Really Know Yourself? The words ‘know thyself’ appear frequently in the work of the Greek philosopher Plato and have been used by writers and philosophers for thousands of years. But what does...
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Putting the ‘Buddhist’ Back into Mindfulness: A Research Round-Up
Putting the ‘Buddhist’ Back into Mindfulness: A Research Round-Up The past is history and no longer exists. The future never arrives. Life can only be experienced in the present moment. Mindfulness...
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Should Buddhists Celebrate Christmas?
Should Buddhists Celebrate Christmas? Our immediate response to the question of whether Buddhists should celebrate Christmas is: ‘if they feel like it’. However, we suspect that some readers might be...
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The Four Types of Psychologist: Ineffective, Satisfactory, Gifted and Gone...
Note: The following post was written with Professor Mark Griffiths and has recently been published on PsychCentral. The full reference is: Van Gordon, W., Shonin., E., & Griffiths, MD. The Four...
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Being Too Buddhist: A Teacher-Student Dialogue
Being Too Buddhist: A Teacher-Student Dialogue Student: Are you busy? Teacher: Why? S: May I talk with you for a short while? T: Yes. S: I’ve been practising meditation for over ten years. I’ve studied...
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When Does Mindfulness Become Addictive?
When Does Mindfulness Become Addictive? Mindfulness is growing in popularity and is increasingly being used by healthcare professionals for treating mental health problems. There has also been a...
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Mindfulness for Pet Dogs
Mindfulness for Pet Dogs Unsurprisingly, a search of the academic literature reveals that there has been little (if any) scientific investigation into whether dogs can be taught mindfulness. In fact,...
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Vita: un’esperienza prossima della morte
Vita: un’esperienza prossima della morte “Non perseguire il passato. Non perderti nel futuro. Il passato è la storia. Il futuro deve ancora arrivare. Guardando in profondità la vita così com’è nell’...
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Experiencing the Universal Breath: A Guided Meditation
Experiencing the Universal Breath: A Guided Meditation We recently had a paper accepted for publication in the Mindfulness in Practice section of Mindfulness. The paper is entitled ‘Experiencing the...
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A Big Pair of Dharma Balls
A Big Pair of Dharma Balls Today, perhaps more than ever before, it is easy to be drawn into what we call the cycle of soap-opera living. Soap-opera living is, unfortunately, rather common. A person...
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Is Buddhism One or Many?
Is Buddhism One or Many? In our experience, most individuals who assert that ‘Buddhism is one’ are generally not well informed or are secret (or in some cases open) advocates of ‘hippyism’!...
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Behind the Times: Viewing the Present from the Past
Behind the Times: Viewing the Present from the Past When astronomers estimate the distance between earth and another astrological entity, they often talk in terms of light years. For example, the Alpha...
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The Spiritual Fence Sitter
The Spiritual Fence Sitter When people are practising a spiritual path it is normal that, to a certain extent, their interest and commitment to the path waxes and wanes. For example, they may feel...
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The World Through the Eyes of the Central Nervous System
The World Through the Eyes of the Central Nervous System An important principle of psychology is that of salutatory conduction through the nervous system. Salutary conduction is not particularly...
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Mindfulness for Treating Addiction: A Clinician’s Guide
Mindfulness for Treating Addiction: A Clinician’s Guide An aspect of our scientific work relating to mindfulness involves investigating its applications for treating addiction. In this respect, we have...
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Before Time Goes By
Before Time Goes By Clicca qui per l’Italiano Growing and play Adventure each day The joys of childhood But time goes by … Education and training Ignorance waning The value of knowledge But time goes...
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Does Mindfulness Work?
Does Mindfulness Work? We were recently invited to write a paper for the British Medical Journal that discusses the treatment efficacy of mindfulness-based interventions. The paper has just been...
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