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    9 Minute Enlightenment Paid Member

    Posted by Sam Mowe on 28 Nov 2011
    How can we really address the issue of awakening as lay people caught up in our day-to-day activities? Joseph Goldstein has come up with a plan: "The nine-minute-a-day turbo-charged path to enlightenment!"* It consists of three 3-minute meditation sessions throughout the day, based on the following exercises: 1) Who is knowing? 2) Breaking Identification with the Body and 3) As the Thought Arises… He writes about it in the current Insight Newsletter for the Insight Meditation Society. More »
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    Unlearning Meditation: What to Do When the Instructions Get In the Way Paid Member

    Posted by Sam Mowe on 28 Nov 2011
    We're currently reading Jason Siff's Unlearning Meditation: What to Do When the Instructions Get In the Way at the Tricycle Book Club. For the next four weeks, Siff will be providing you with articles, meditation instructions, and most significantly, an opportunity for you to journal your meditation sittings and look more closely at what happens in meditation. Below are Siff's basic meditation instructions for “recollective awareness meditation.” Pick up a copy and join the discussion. More »
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    Mindfulness Exercise: This Person Could Die Tonight Paid Member

    Posted by Sam Mowe on 21 Nov 2011
    We are currently reading Jan Chozen Bays's How to Train a Wild Elephant: And Other Adventures in Mindfulness at the Tricycle Book Club. Each week in November, Bays will present us with a new mindfulness exercise that relates to the theme of gratitude. The fourth and final exercise is posted below. Give it a try and then join us at the discussion to tell us how it goes. Pick up a copy of the book here. More »
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    Deeper Lessons: Gratitude for the Body Paid Member

    Posted by Sam Mowe on 17 Nov 2011
    We're reading Jan Chozen Bays's How to Train a Wild Elephant at the Tricycle Book Club. At the beginning of this week we posted one of the mindfulness practices from the book, "Gratitude for the Body," and today we're following-up with the "Deeper Lessons" to be learned from that exercise. If you have questions or comments for Jan Chozen Bays please join the discussion!Deeper Lessons More »
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    Faith in Technology: Are Buddhism and meditation the same thing? Paid Member

    Posted by Sam Mowe on 15 Nov 2011
    If you read just one article in the current issue of Tricycle, make it "Living Buddhism" by Dharmavidya David Brazier.* The author raises serious questions about Buddhist practice in the West. In adopting a technological model of Buddhist practice do we risk isolating meditation techniques from a bigger picture? Are we reinforcing the very isolation and self-absorption that it is the job of Buddhism, and religion in general, to counter? Here's an excerpt from the article: More »
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    Mindfulness Exercise: Gratitude for the Body Paid Member

    Posted by Sam Mowe on 15 Nov 2011
    We are currently reading Jan Chozen Bays's How to Train a Wild Elephant: And Other Adventures in Mindfulness at the Tricycle Book Club. Each week in November, Bays will present us with a new mindfulness exercise that relates to the theme of gratitude. The third exercise is posted below. Give it a try and then join us at the discussion to tell us how it goes. Pick up a copy of the book here.Mindfulness Exercise #3: Gratitude for the BodyThe Exercise More »