NEWSFLASH Something NEW on This Buddhist Life ……. Beginning Thursday 12th August a four session programme outlining Buddha’s meditation practice in a simple FREE step-by-step guide to to10min meditations. To help beginners AND current practitioners I will post four sets of instructions describing a series of building blocks for an ever increasing depth of meditation. Read More
Tag: Awareness
Stillness Haiku| Thinking no Thinking
Haiku ”Silently sitting,listening to the new dawn—thinking no thinking.” From "Stillness | Moments of Buddhist Practice in Verse" written February 2022 Reflection Some poems explain an experience. Others simply point towards it. I wrote this many years ago and, interestingly, left no journal entry explaining what inspired it. Looking back, I suspect I had been Read More
What Mindful Walking Finally Taught me
"When walking, the monk knows: ‘I am walking.’"— Mahāsatipaṭṭhāna Sutta Every morning begins in much the same way. I wake around 6.00 a.m., make cups of green tea for my wife and me, and we each spend forty minutes in meditation before beginning the day. Afterwards I head out for a walk, usually covering four Read More
Mindfulness of Mind: Reflections from Practice
”Do not pursue the past. Do not lose yourself in the future. Looking deeply at life as it is in this very moment, the meditator dwells in stability and freedom."The Buddha, Bhaddakaratta Sutta The Four Foundations of Mindfulness form one of the central teachings of Buddhism and are described in detail in the Satipatthana Sutta. Read More
Mindfulness of Feelings: Reflections from Practice
“When experiencing a pleasant feeling, the meditator knows: ‘I experience a pleasant feeling’; when experiencing a painful feeling, the meditator knows: ‘I experience a painful feeling’; when experiencing a neutral feeling, the meditator knows: ‘I experience a neutral feeling.’"Mindfulness of Feelings, Mahasatipatthana Sutra The Four Foundations of Mindfulness form one of the central teachings of Read More