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The Dalai Lama's Blessing
It had been three months since I arrived in Dharamsala. My visa was about to expire, and I had to leave India soon. I had tried many...
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The teachings of the Dalai Lama
I woke up at 6 am, it was still dark. I grabbed my mala —my Buddhist rosary—and an old radio that would allow me to listen to the Dalai...
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Granting Meaning. Part 1
Look at the importance of the best of YOUR OWN VOICE coming from the outside, in the form of letters or images. For when, from within, we...
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28 ~ Speaking of Death.
"We are repeatedly told about transmigrating, about how our spirit moves from one body to another in countless lives, seeking experiences...
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29~ On the Way to Bodh Gaya: An Approach to Something.
When the clouds disappear, the sky clears and the sun shines brightly...When the sun shines, who needs artificial light?" Light on the...
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32 ~ Vipassana Experience: 10 days of silence and meditation. Part 1.
January 2023. Deep Winter. Bodh Gaya, India. The village where Buddha attained enlightenment while meditating under a Bodhi tree. Could...
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33 ~ Vipassana Experience Part 2: Daily Routines.
Hello mind, a lot has happened. You were on top of the mountain for a long time, watching everything from above, and that's okay, it was...
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34~ Vipassana Experience, Part 3: The First Memories
I had gotten up at 4 a.m., fallen asleep during the meditation, and, on top of that, I hadn't turned into Jean from the X-Men, nor did I...
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35 ~ Vipassana Experience Part 4: Impermanence.
The dry leaves covered the courtyard.I saw an ant carrying a feather that was 100 times bigger than its size. I also saw a woman braiding...
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36~ Vipassana Experience Part 5: Equanimity.
How well-crafted is the cage that we still love to paint our prison bars on!The greatest secrets of cages are that they never seem like...
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38~ Who Am I? Buddhism and Psychoanalysis. The search for "identity"
Reflections for nerds. If there was something to search for, we had already figured out that the path wasn't outside. So, by elimination,...
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40~ Goodbye Ego. From Disillusionment to Hope: a Path Toward Wholeness.
Understanding the conditions of the path we walk is important and crucial to knowing how to walk it.
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41 - Psychology and Buddhism. Part 2: My own Mindset
As I sat on my step watching my neighbor do her daily laundry, I saw an ant carrying a feather almost 2.5 cm long.Thirty times her size? How many ants would fit in a feather? The floor was tiled with grooves. For the poor ant, they must have felt like hills, but that didn’t stop her—the ant kept going... The feather swayed wildly from side to side as if it were dancing. It seemed like it would fall at any moment and touch the ground... but it didn’t. And the ant—stubborn—co
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