Now you can connect with the Insight Meditation Center (Home of Gil Fronsdal, and Audio Dharma) on Facebook. Check it out.
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If your a technoligist, and a student of Zen, then ValleyZen.com has some real treats for you. Drue Kataoka, in her wonderful spirit has some of the best interviews I have ever seen that combined technology and the principles of Zen. During her interviews she brings out the essence and the art of doing business with a Zen mind.
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Be Like a Flower
a flower needs water
a flower needs sunlight
a flower need nourishment
be like a flower and all things will come to you
like a flower
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The Insight Meditation Center has several upcoming online courses you can sign up for.
Visit: Online Courses for more information.
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It’s a great day for a walk, so why not walk mindfully?
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In this video, I show you how to configure Meditator (our meditation timer iPhone App) for your daily routine.
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The Full Video from this weeks podcast
Can we truthfully say we did not exist before our birth? What will become of us after death? Venerable Thich Nhat Hanh addresses our ideas about life and death and how we can release these debilitating notions and get in touch with our true nature, the nature of no birth and no death. We have the tendency to think dualistically: coming and going, birth and death, same and different, being and non-being. Such opposing ideas are merely mental constructions that do not reflect the true nature of reality. Life arises when conditions are sufficient and fades when conditions are no longer sufficient. But we cannot say life and death oppose one another—they “inter-are.” “The teaching of no birth, no death,” says Thich Nhat Hanh, “is the cream of the Buddha’s teachings.”
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Eckhart Tolle, internationally bestselling author of The Power of Now and A New Earth, is one of the world’s most honored and respected spiritual teachers. Now, at this time of accelerating change and profound transformation, people from all over the world have the opportunity to join together and experience Eckhart Tolle teaching in a pioneering new format – via monthly online broadcasts designed to catalyze spiritual awakening and
provide clarity, guidance, and support to viewers worldwide. In order to make new material available as quickly as possible, to as many people as possible, Eckhart is creating this new online subscription service, Eckhart Tolle TV.
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An updated post from 2006, fixing broken links, etc.
This is a good time to start a practice of prostrations. Prostrations can purify the body, speech, and mind.Doing prostrations are good for your body, and heart. Here we will learn more about why and how to prostrate:
Continue reading ‘Prostrations: A Buddhist Exercise Program (Updated)’
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The Time Paradox
Are you Past, Present or Future Oriented?
What if your attitudes toward time could explain why you are chronically late, why you’re likely to fight for rainforest preservation, or why you might be predisposed to addictions?
Philip Zimbardo, renowned for his notorious 1971 Stanford Prison Experiments, will discuss how internal time perspectives determine every single one of our thoughts, feelings and actions.
He even makes the case that attitudes toward time can influence national destinies.
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Thay speaks on The Buddha, Karma, Dharma, Meditation, and more.
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In our practice, when there is a holding to some concept, or abstraction, we are bound to it. It may be a false identity, or an “attempt to achieve or be something someday”, or “ongoing effort to hold a position, status, or be seen by others as something you long to be”.
These efforts can be like a car in neutral: pressing the gas pedal, your expending a lot of energy and your not getting anywhere, but you are certainly making a lot of noise, your stuck.
Continue reading ‘Letting go is the first step, Letting go is the last step.’
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