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Mahasi Sayadaw was a Burmese Buddhist monk in the late 1800’s who popularized the idea of LABELLING that was a support for Vipassana or Insight meditation. Historically sustained awareness and deep concentration states of Jhana were believed necessary before one...
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I would like to offer a practice that encompasses the totality of the components of mindfulness that includes awareness, an experiential relationship with discernment and compassion resulting in skillful action. Importantly this practice is linked to the breath as a...
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A critical aspect in mindfulness is the capacity to bring awareness to the present moment experience. However it is not just being aware cognitively of what one is experiencing but what is crucial is the capacity to have an embodied presence. To experience what is...
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“What makes things so? Making them so makes them so.” Our minds play a key role in how we see reality. We experience the world through our senses of seeing, hearing, tasting, touching, smelling and thinking. Our minds receive the sensation and initially...
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Meditation has been around for 4000 years! From the Buddhist perspective meditation reflects the Pali word bhavana that stands for cultivation. Cultivation of what? The present moment. What is the present moment? What you choose it to be! When one hears the word...
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*SET THE INTENTIONMeditation initially is about enhanced awareness. Before the start of the practice one might state: “May I have applied and sustained awareness of the present moment.” *SHUT the EYESOne can meditate with eyes open or closed. I would... 
