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love talk about the emergence of the Universe, with Daniel Schmachtenberger

two evenings ago we watched and listen, together with Ronen, this video: I was breathless… there is not word thrown,…
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M.N. Saunders on vipassana

I admit I felt good  reading Saunder’s comments on A critique of Vipassana Meditation as taught by Goenka. I haven’t…
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A critique of Vipassana Meditation as taught by Goenka

I just read this article and all the comments to it. It is an extended writing about the vipassana technique…
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Protejat: Q&As on vipassana practice, by S.N. Goenka

Acest conținut este protejat cu parolă. Pentru a-l vedea, te rog să introduci parola mai jos. Parolă:
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[book] Why I Sit – Paul Fleischman (excerpt 6, last one)

This is the last excerpt from “Why I Sit” booklet by Paul Fleischman. IX Those ten days of nothing but…
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[book] Why I sit – Paul Fleischman (excerpt 5)

VII Sitting enabled me to see, and compelled me to acknowledge, the role that death had already played, and still…
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[book] Why I sit – Paul Fleischman (excerpt 4)

V I sit to grow up, to be a better person, to see trivial angers rise up and pass away,…
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[book] Why I sit – Paul Fleischman (excerpt 3)

III Sitting is, among other things, the practice of self-control. While sitting one does not get up, or move, or…
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[book] Why I Sit – Paul Fleischman (excerpt 2)

I I would like to know myself. It is remarkable that while ordinarily we spend most of our lives studying,…
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[book] Why I sit – Paul Fleischman (excerpt I)

I heard about Paul Fleischman for some time now… again just before the 10-day retreat in Dhamma Dvara, then after…
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correct effort, patience and perseverance

after the sitting in Dhamma Dvara (I am still writing about that only in my mind for now, soon here),…
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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…
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in the last 10-day course that I was sitting in Dhamma Dvara (31.11 – 11.12.2016) I was wondering… how is…
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medicine – Rising Appalachia

this came to me through Melania… Lyrics below: Wise men say that rushing is violence and so is your silence…
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Cutia cu Bunatati din Portugalia 🙂

Drag(a) prieten(a),   Deoarece suntem in contact cu prieteni dragi in Portgualia, si astfel suntem in contact direct cu producatori…
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short and clear

(I write this post in December 2016, yet the dream is still clear inside me; I usually don’t remember dreams…
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iti scriu…

iti scriu pentru ca esti in sufletul meu… pentru ca esti… in primul rand.. asa cum esti… femeie… sau poate…
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it is a holy thing to love what death can touch

It is… to love and not to hold inside, outside so inviting, so soft, so strong, so warm and yet……