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“Keeping Your Shit Together”: A Perspective on the Buddhist Middle-Way Approach
“Keeping Your Shit Together”: A Perspective on the Buddhist Middle-Way Approach Some people like fast cars, some people like fine dining, and some people like expensive clothes. Some people are partial...
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Does Mindfulness Have a Role in the Treatment of Fibromyalgia Syndrome?
Does Mindfulness Have a Role in the Treatment of Fibromyalgia Syndrome? Fibromyalgia syndrome is a poorly understood chronic pain disorder. An estimated 3% of adults are reported to suffer from...
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Calling a Spade a Spade: The Need for Authentic Meditation Teachers
Calling a Spade a Spade: The Need for Authentic Meditation Teachers Some time ago, we uploaded a post that featured a vajragiti that we wrote called ‘Hearken to the Dharma’. A vajragiti is a type of...
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Thupten Jingpa on Compassion and Mindfulness
Thupten Jingpa on Compassion and Mindfulness We recently had the pleasure of talking with Thupten Jingpa, who has been the principal English translator of the Dalia Lama for the past 30 years. The...
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What are the Active Ingredients of Mindfulness-based Intervention?
What are the Active Ingredients of Mindfulness-based Intervention? Mindfulness-based interventions typically comprise numerous elements, including some or all of the following: guided mindfulness...
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Porta il tuo cuscino di meditazione con te quando ti alzi
Porta il tuo cuscino di meditazione con te quando ti alzi Quando si soffia per spegnere le vostre candele, e si alza dal proprio cuscino di meditazione, questo è il momento in cui la pratica della...
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To Enlightenment and Beyond
To Enlightenment and Beyond Click here for Italian readers – Clicca qui per i lettori italiani Most Buddhist practice systems assert that there are various stages on the path to enlightenment. Perhaps...
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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