For the past few months I’ve really been focusing on “body work” in my dharma practice. I’ve been working with full-body awareness and vipassana, as well as using deep loving-kindness meditation to embrace mental and physical pains. This essay by Thanissaro Bhikkhu has been especially helpful in getting in touch with the actual feelings of my […]
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How Not to Get Swept Away by Mindstorms
2010/12/28 
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Here is another skillful teaching by Thanissaro Bhikkhu. We’ve all been swept away by the “storms” and epics stories and worlds we create in our minds. Happily, the Buddha showed how we can not only find safe refuge from these storms, we can learn how to stop their creation. Mindstorms Thanissaro Bhikkhu There’s a part […]
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