Buddhist Mindfulness: One Potato at a Time
“Mindfulness is the aware, balanced acceptance of the present experience. It isn’t more complicated than that. It is opening to or receiving the present moment, pleasant or unpleasant, just as it is,...
View Article7 Benefits of Buddhist Meditation
1. Meditation helps to improve health: Stress Reduction Meditation has shown to reduce stress. In many studies Mindfulness Meditation also helps reducing anxiety disorders including PTSD and also...
View ArticleBuddhist Meditation: 5 Ways To Stay Motivated
All of us lose our motivation to meditate sometimes. It is natural for all of us to succumb to procrastinations no matter how many ways we try to inspire ourselves. Only you can explore the...
View ArticleBuddhist Meditation – is simply an ‘awareness.’ [Part 3]
It was time to be back in Canada and I decided to incorporate my Buddhist experience in everyday life and continue as a layman practitioner. 5th definition and current one: meditation is a simply a...
View ArticleBuddhist Meditation – is simply an ‘awareness.’ [Part 2]
3rd definition: meditation is a sitting a long time and doing Vipassana, Anapana and Loving-kindness as taught by S.N. Goenka. It was the program, the system and the promise of Buddhist...
View ArticleBuddhist Meditation – is simply an ‘awareness.’ [Part 1]
Meditation, one of the most commonly used terms in the West, could mean different things to different people. For some to meditate is simply to contemplate (“I will meditate on this”). For others...
View Article3 Steps to Stop Procrastination with Buddhist Mindfulness
Procrastination is a nearly universal experience. We all put off something that we know we should attend to. And most of us see procrastination as a character flaw, equating it with being lazy,...
View ArticleHow Western Buddhism Has Changed in 50 Years
This is a guest blog article by Vishvani Blomfield. It was originally published in TheGuardian.co.uk on March 16, 2012 A western Buddhist shares 10 insights into how the religion and its followers...
View ArticleBuddhist Meditation – Letting Go of Thoughts
If you are beginning a meditation practice, you may have heard that the goal is to “let go of your thoughts.” This is a concept that is both widely used and widely misunderstood. Some people think...
View ArticleLoving-Kindness Meditation Can Help Build Relationships
Scientists from Stanford University, publishing in the journal, ‘Emotion’ , showed that meditation that focused on loving kindness increased people’s feelings of social connectedness. The Tibetan...
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