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ONE DEFINITION OF MEDITATION:
A formal on-going practice of developing specific mental and emotional capacities for the purpose of greater states of awakening, and/or well being.
A formal on-going practice of developing specific mental and emotional capacities for the purpose of greater states of awakening, and/or well being.
Guided Meditations
Contemplative Studies Free Guided Practice Library especially shamatha 1 (oriented to stability) and shamatha 2 (oriented to clarity)
Self-Compassion
Jhana Meditation (Whole Body Breathing) with Rob Burbea
Contemplative Studies Free Guided Practice Library especially shamatha 1 (oriented to stability) and shamatha 2 (oriented to clarity)
Self-Compassion
Jhana Meditation (Whole Body Breathing) with Rob Burbea
Will's Previous Talk at OSU
Humility and Avidya
Quotes and Poems
“Hold the sadness and pain of samsara in your heart and at the same time the power and vision of the Great Eastern Sun (pristine awareness). Then the warrior can make a proper cup of tea.”
― Chögyam Trungpa
“Everything is plundered, betrayed, sold,
Deaths great black wing scrapes the air,
Misery gnaws to the bone.
Why then do we not despair?
By day, from the surrounding woods,
Cherries blow summer into town
At night the deep transparent skies
Glitter with new galaxies.
And the miraculous comes so close
To the ruined dirty houses –
Something not known to anyone at all
But wild in our breast for centuries.”
-- Anna Akhmatova
"The discovery of magic can happen only when we transcend our embarrassment about being alive, when we have the bravery to proclaim the goodness and dignity of human life, without either hesitation or arrogance. Then magic can descend onto our existence. -Chogyam Trungpa (2010). “The Collected Works of Chogyam Trungpa: Volume Eight: Great Eastern Sun; Shambhala; Selected Writings”, p.107, Shambhala Publications
Nonduality at the Psychodynamics of Samsara (full article) by Jennifer Welwood
Unconditional Poem by Jennifer Welwood
“Hold the sadness and pain of samsara in your heart and at the same time the power and vision of the Great Eastern Sun (pristine awareness). Then the warrior can make a proper cup of tea.”
― Chögyam Trungpa
“Everything is plundered, betrayed, sold,
Deaths great black wing scrapes the air,
Misery gnaws to the bone.
Why then do we not despair?
By day, from the surrounding woods,
Cherries blow summer into town
At night the deep transparent skies
Glitter with new galaxies.
And the miraculous comes so close
To the ruined dirty houses –
Something not known to anyone at all
But wild in our breast for centuries.”
-- Anna Akhmatova
"The discovery of magic can happen only when we transcend our embarrassment about being alive, when we have the bravery to proclaim the goodness and dignity of human life, without either hesitation or arrogance. Then magic can descend onto our existence. -Chogyam Trungpa (2010). “The Collected Works of Chogyam Trungpa: Volume Eight: Great Eastern Sun; Shambhala; Selected Writings”, p.107, Shambhala Publications
Nonduality at the Psychodynamics of Samsara (full article) by Jennifer Welwood
Unconditional Poem by Jennifer Welwood
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Retreat Centers
https://www.dhammasukha.org/online-retreats
https://www.spiritrock.org
https://www.upaya.org
https://www.mountaincloud.org
https://www.dhammasukha.org/online-retreats
https://www.spiritrock.org
https://www.upaya.org
https://www.mountaincloud.org
Recommended Books
Books on Meditation
The Mind Illuminated - John Yates/Matthew Immergut
Leigh Brasington - Right Concentration - A Practical Guide to the Jhanas
Shaila Catherine - Focused and Fearless
Andrew Holecek - Reverse Meditation: How to Use Pain and Most Difficult Emotions as the Doorway to Inner Freedom
Nejang: Tibetan Self-Healing Yoga by Dr. Nida Chenagtsang
Alan Wallace - The Attention Revolution
Daniel Ingram - Mastering the core teachings of the Buddha
Reggie Ray - Touching Enlightenment: Finding Realization in the Body
Rob Burbea - Seeing That Frees: Meditations on Emptiness and Dependent Arising
Stephen Snyder - Liberating the Self: Buddhist Practices for an Authentic Life
Menopause book Cata was mentioning -
Dr. Lisa Mosconi - The Menopause Brain
Very Accessible Books on Buddhism and Buddhist Practice
Yongey Mingyur Rinpoche - In Love with the World
Robert Wright - Why Buddhism is True
Pema Chodrin -
- Comfortable with Uncertainty
- The places that scare you
- When things fall apart
Chogyam Trungpa
- Cutting through spiritual materialism
- The myth of freedom
General Good Reads on Buddhism or the Spiritual Life
Joanna Macy - Active Hope: How to face the mess were in without going crazy
Michaela Haas - Dakini Power: Twelve Extraordinary Women Shaping the Transmission of Tibetan Buddhism in the West
Roshi Joan Halifax - Standing at the Edge: Finding Freedom Where Fear and Courage Meet
Amy Schmidt - Dipa Ma: The Life and Legacy of a Buddhist Master
Ram Dass (ed.) - Miracle of Love: Stories About Neem Karoli Baba
Books on Meditation
The Mind Illuminated - John Yates/Matthew Immergut
Leigh Brasington - Right Concentration - A Practical Guide to the Jhanas
Shaila Catherine - Focused and Fearless
Andrew Holecek - Reverse Meditation: How to Use Pain and Most Difficult Emotions as the Doorway to Inner Freedom
Nejang: Tibetan Self-Healing Yoga by Dr. Nida Chenagtsang
Alan Wallace - The Attention Revolution
Daniel Ingram - Mastering the core teachings of the Buddha
Reggie Ray - Touching Enlightenment: Finding Realization in the Body
Rob Burbea - Seeing That Frees: Meditations on Emptiness and Dependent Arising
Stephen Snyder - Liberating the Self: Buddhist Practices for an Authentic Life
Menopause book Cata was mentioning -
Dr. Lisa Mosconi - The Menopause Brain
Very Accessible Books on Buddhism and Buddhist Practice
Yongey Mingyur Rinpoche - In Love with the World
Robert Wright - Why Buddhism is True
Pema Chodrin -
- Comfortable with Uncertainty
- The places that scare you
- When things fall apart
Chogyam Trungpa
- Cutting through spiritual materialism
- The myth of freedom
General Good Reads on Buddhism or the Spiritual Life
Joanna Macy - Active Hope: How to face the mess were in without going crazy
Michaela Haas - Dakini Power: Twelve Extraordinary Women Shaping the Transmission of Tibetan Buddhism in the West
Roshi Joan Halifax - Standing at the Edge: Finding Freedom Where Fear and Courage Meet
Amy Schmidt - Dipa Ma: The Life and Legacy of a Buddhist Master
Ram Dass (ed.) - Miracle of Love: Stories About Neem Karoli Baba