Eyes Closed or Eyes Open: Sharing From Personal Experience
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Meditation Reflections
Can Mindfulness Lead to an Embodied Wisdom?
In answering the question if mindfulness practice can lead to an embodied wisdom, it is best to start with the foundation of why we practice meditation. Primarily we meditate to cultivate mindfulness which is conducive to us being more aware of what we experience. 3 dimensions of mindfulness Purser and Milillo (2014) have put forth the argument that mindfulness
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Investigating The Living Present
Our mind has an innate tendency to wander off, incessantly into thinking. At any one moment as if on impulse, we might find ourselves either thinking about worrying or mulling over the past or trying to anticipate the future or just daydreaming in the present. Such a state of mind detracts us from our present
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Thanks to Impermanence, Everything is Possible
Impermanence is also known as the philosophical problem of constant change. Reflect nothing remains the same and everything is in continuous flux, even your breath from moment to moment is different so much so that your next breath can be your last. The paradox with impermanence is that although we know change happens, we still
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STOP – What does mindfulness and being mindful mean?
Image credit to BD Hypno Plus Mindfulness is the first step the vehicle through which we become mindful. Mindfulness is like a light that shines out in the dark, allowing us to become mindfully aware of our thoughts and feelings. How these affect our behaviour towards ourselves, other people and our surroundings. Mindfulness and being
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Forgiveness: Making Our Own Peace in Life
When someone does you wrong in life, do you keep holding onto it or try to forgive. But what is forgiveness? Is forgiveness an exercise which benefits are for the other person or yourself? Let’s reflect on these. Forgiveness, in reality, isn’t “really” about someone else’s harmful behaviour but how you keep relating to it. It’s a reflection
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Why Do You Practice Mindfulness?
Recently I was asked by someone why do you practice mindfulness? Personally, I do not subscribe to the notion that I practice mindfulness. In essence, formally I practice meditation which is conducive to the cultivation of mindfulness. As in essence within the formal practice of meditation mindfulness is one of the faucets cultivated through such
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The Two Farmers: A Mindfulness Analogy
The tale of the two farmers reminds me of when a friend asked me what is mindfulness? His question was so spontaneous that it caught me off guard. That day what spontaneously came to mind was practically the analogy of the two farmers. Ploughing the field Two farmers set out ploughing their field. While ploughing
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The Active Cultivation of Awareness
Do we need to engage in an active cultivation of awareness as a farmer cultivates a field? Or more specifically what is one of the motivations behind why I practice meditation? Today I will be looking at these questions from the standpoint of meditation being a tool for the cultivation of awareness. What is awareness
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What is Meditation? The Polar Bear Experiment
Have you ever asked yourself? What is Meditation? As a practitioner, I have been asked this question many times by persons interested in starting meditation. I like to bounce such a question back to the person asking. But what do you think meditation is? Usually, the following one of two replies is most likely. Either
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Happiness and Its Causes
Do you seek happiness and its causes? In our lives, we probably all seek happiness and its causes. Likewise, as we seek happiness, we would also like to be free from the causes of suffering. But how? Most prominently through the golden rule. A proposition found in all major religious and spiritual traditions, which “instructs
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Joining Hands: A Flow of Compassion
Compassion Joining hands Today during my daily practice of meditation, a particular person came to mind. I felt a deep sense of openness towards this person and what they are going through. So I engaged in a compassion practice and started directing loving-kindness and compassion towards them. Strangely when I was directing compassion towards this
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