Mindfulness or awareness is nonjudgemental and nonconceptual. Now, this can be a little tricky because when we hear nonjudgemental mindfulness, we may think there is a judgemental mindfulness…
Buddhist meditation
Compose your minds, by Ajahn Sumedho
For many people the attitude towards meditation is one of always trying to change something.
Mindfulness is not thinking, by Trevor Leggett
Mindfulness in words — trying to make an internal commentary of what one is doing — is just a kind of illusion.
Unbiased compassion, by Dalai Lama
Short video by His Holiness the Dalai Lama about unbiased compassion.
Meditation In Daily Life, by Bhante Bodhidhamma
It is good to take one of the Perfections as a special practice. Maybe it’s patience: I’m impatient with myself and others; I’m easily irritated and angered. So let this be my special practice. As we develop one Perfection, we shall discover that the whole personality is affected and all the other Perfections are also enhanced…
Sound and Noise, by Suzuki Roshi
Short film by Shunryu Suzuki Roshi – Sandokai – Sound and Noise
Liberating Emotions, by Ajahn Sumedho.
Sometimes metta is presented as a kind of ‘think pink’ idea, where we are just saying very nice things and wishing everybody well and it is all very sweet and nice, but underneath there might be a kind of volcano of rage and resentment…
Tantric View of Nonattachment, by Francesca Fremantle
When we are happy we usually do not want to hear anything about detachment, because the little self likes being involved in pleasant experiences and thinks it would spoil the fun…
