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13~ Living in an Ashram. Part 1: Shiva, Chaos, and Destruction.
I had set up my meditation altar with a small statue of Ganesha, a Tibetan singing bowl, and some Santa Rita flowers I had found in the...
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14 ~Living in an Ashram. Part 2: Through the storm.
After the chanting class, we would go together into the Ganga to purify ourselves and because we both loved the winter bath . The water...
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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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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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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 cages; they always disguise themselves as oases in the desert. And what if we open the little door for the hamster? So that every now and then it can peek outside the cage and remember that the cage has a handle and a latch. That occasionally one can enter, amuse oneself on the spinning wheel of colors that endlessly turns, but also laugh at
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