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Category: vipassana
Our Best and Most Lasting Gift: The Universal Features of Meditation
This is a lecture by Paul R. Fleischman, M.D. delivered at the University of Colorado, Boulder This talk was originally written in response to an invitation from multiple sponsors at Yale University. Versions of this talk were given in 2015 at Northeastern University, and in 2016 at Yale University, New York University, The University of…
vipassana
in the last 10-day course that I was sitting in Dhamma Dvara (31.11 – 11.12.2016) I was wondering… how is it that I didn’t speak, wrote about vipassana in the last years. then in one of the sittings it came to me and remembered that Adi told us, in one of the courses at Dumbrava…
reverence of approach
An apprenticeship with sorrow invites us to learn the rites of grief and to practice a reverence of approach, as Irish poet/philosopher John O’Donohue suggests. He writes, “What you encounter, recognize or discover depends to a large degree on the quality of your approach… When we approach with reverence, great things decide to approach us.”…
Krishnamacharya and all the humble spirits
last night around 4 am I woke up with Krishnamacharya in my mind and heart. I am reading these days “Yoga and the Living Tradition of KRISHNAMACHARYA”, written by his son T.K. V. Desikachar with R.H. Craven… and feeling so grateful to further discover the humbleness of this… man. last night I had this deep…
observing the breath
Even though it seams like such an easy thing, it is actually very difficult simply to follow the movement of the breath. In the moment when we concentrate on the breath it has a tendency to change; we are inclined to control the natural breathing ratio, to disturb it. When we follow the breath we…
the breath is my teacher
“The feeling of the breath” refers to the feeling of energy or prana moving in the body. The principles underlying each classic asana has a particular implication to the movement of prana in the body. A teacher who understands asana from the point of view of whole-body feeling and the movement of prana can adopt…
despre… cum?
am primit textul de mai jos de la zana noastra Nora. l-am cautat pe net, nu am gasit, sursa, autorul, dar vreau sa il postez aici… sa ramana… “Daca un tren nu s-a oprit in statia ta, inseamna ca acel tren nu este pentru tine. Un alt tren incearca sa ajunga la tine, dar nu…