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42~Vipassana Experience: Craving and the way out of it.
That intense, powerful, and uncontrollable impulse. That excessive and imperceptible attachment. That insatiable, endless desire, which...
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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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Granting Meaning Part 2: Traveling Altars
A few days ago, I visited the temporary little home of a traveler friend. Sarah had come from Delhi to the mountains of Dharamshala,...
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Superpowers Part 2: Memories
When I was 10 years old, I used to transcribe stories from books onto the computer. Computers were just starting to appear; it was the...
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The Insurgents
They tried to put us in boxes of every possible shape and size. From every century, with different names and different mottos, with...
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12~ Surrender.
Letting go of control, jumping, trusting... Everything Anand was telling me now seemed like prophetic words for what was to come. That...
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15~ Living in an Ashram. Part 3: Small Changes.
By the fifth day—which felt like a month—I had almost emerged from the intense confusion with which I had arrived at the Ashram. I helped...
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21 ~ Origins.
I came to India seeking to understand. But does our mind really want to escape the illusion we live in? To break free from the collective...
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22 ~ Identities.
What if you get that thing you wanted so badly? Your house in the mountains, the dog, the trees—and one day, the house catches fire. Then...
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26 ~ Varanasi, touching the sacred fire.
We were meditating just a few centimeters from the sacred fire, surrounded by smoke and drops of sweat."Everything is fine... look around...
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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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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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39 ~Vipassana Part 8: The spiritual path and the encounter with "oneself".
Go inward, understood... How? — asked a voice inside me, notebook and pen in hand, as if the answer to “going inward” were less...
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