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A Bubble in the Wind
Life is like a bubble carried by the wind. Some bubbles burst sooner, others later. Some burst of their own accord, others by accident. Some are deliberately burst. However, one way or another, all...
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A Buddha has Entered the World
A Buddha has Entered the World Endowed with the Dharmakaya that is the ground of all existence, The Sambogakaya that is pure and splendid to behold, And the Nirmanakaya that serves the needs of all...
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The Binds of Ignorance
The Binds of Ignorance The Buddhas who realize the illusory nature of all phenomena, Have limitless compassion for even an insect. Yet the ignorant beings believing all things to be ‘real’, Slaughter,...
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Carry your Meditation Cushion with You
Carry your Meditation Cushion with You When you blow out your candles and stand up from your meditation cushion – that’s when your meditation practice starts. As meditators, we should try not to create...
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Authentic Spiritual Lineage
Authentic Spiritual Lineage If a person has genuine spiritual realization, they are authorized to transmit the spiritual teachings. All titles, held-lineages, endorsements, acclamations, life...
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A Breath of Fresh Air
A Breath of Fresh Air Are you breathing? Are you alive? Are you being? These may seem like strange questions but read them again and look at what they are asking. Are you truly aware that you are...
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Simply Being with Nothing to Be
Nowhere to go, nothing to do No reputation to build, none to defend No possessions to amass, none to protect This is fearlessness born of Apranihita Simply here, simply now Simply birth, simply death...
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Life is a Precious Happening
Life is a very rare and precious happening. On this earth there are seven billion human beings and countless other sentient beings. The life that each being is living is happening uniquely and...
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Hearken to the Dharma
Hearken to the Dharma All you great teachers and meditators, Who mistake self-grasping and pride for the two accumulations, In whom true renunciation and devotion never arise, You, pleasure seekers,...
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Teaching Mindfulness to Children
Teaching Mindfulness to Children Along with a friend and colleague of ours – Professor Mark Griffiths – we recently published an article in the journal of Education and Health about the health benefits...
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Buddhist teachings: A brief introduction
Buddhism originated approximately 2,600 years ago and is based on the teachings of Siddartha Gautama who is said to have been born in Lumbini (near the Nepalese/Indian border). At approximately 29...
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Forgive them Father
Forgive them Father “Father, forgive them, for they know not what they do”. These are the words that Jesus Christ is believed to have cried out approximately 2,000 years ago during his crucifixion at...
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The Off-spring of Spring
The Off-spring of Spring Nurtured by nature In the wild I dwell A contented heart But no one to tell The heir of the air I float on the clouds Such freedom such bliss No hustle no crowds The son of the...
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Meditation: A Three-fold Approach
Meditation: A Three-fold Approach Within Western research settings, interest into the health-related applications of Buddhist and Buddhist-derived meditation techniques is rapidly growing. Indeed,...
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The Life Gamble
The Life Gamble Along with Professor Mark Griffiths who is one of the world’s leading experts in the study of behavioural addictions, we recently published an article in the Journal of Behavioural...
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A Close Truth
A Close Truth Like the repose that follows, When waking from a nightmare. Like the reprieve of an isolated General, Who recognizes the encroaching soldiers as his own troops Like the relief that...
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Mindlessness and Hallucination
Mindlessness and Hallucination The state of ‘mindlessness’ is generally considered to be the opposite of the state of ‘mindfulness’. Mindlessness, therefore, refers to a lack of present moment...
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Mindwithness
Mindwithness! The Pali word for mindfulness is sati (Sanskrit: smrti). Although the term ‘mindfulness’ is the most popular rendition of sati, the word sati actually means ‘to remember’ (i.e., ‘to...
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The Ear-Whispered Mahavairocana Tantra
The following are some verses we have selected from the Ear-Whispered Mahavairochana Tantra. I am Mahavairocana, the one Mind All things arise as me I am the entirety of space and time Yet you will not...
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Meditation Research: The Top Ten
Meditation Research: The Top Ten Based upon an extensive and comprehensive review of the literature, and based upon findings from our own research, the following is what we consider to be some key...
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