What does it mean to arrive at one’s true home? In this talk, Marc Loewer discusses non-dualism, the wandering mind, and how meditation can lead to greater clarity, kindness, and inner freedom. He combines insights from Dharma, psychology and neuroscience with a practical approach that is firmly rooted in everyday life. This approach leads towards greater awareness, understanding and a more loving relationship with ourselves and the world.
WeiterlesenWhat happens when we truly listen to our inner voice? Marcel Steiner demonstrates how meditation and the Big Mind process can enable us to connect with our inner selves in a more open, kind and aware way. This can gradually transform the internal struggle into a greater sense of spaciousness, compassion and vitality. This is a personal reflection on spiritual practice, inner home, and the possibility of finding a deeper sense of belonging in one's own life.
WeiterlesenThe whole curriculum is grounded in comprehensive training in mindfulness, compassion, and embodiment practices, including the deeper insight, compassionate motivation, and communicative skills that will enable you to apply them to your moment-to-moment life and work – where all our boundless potential for transformation lies waiting to be tapped.
WeiterlesenContemplative Psychotherapy is a hybrid therapeutic approach that blends the meditative insights, ethics and practices of Buddhism with the theory and application of Western neuropsychology, social psychology and psychotherapy. This amalgam may invoke cognitive dissonance for some.
WeiterlesenThe roots of Yantra Yoga lie in the Tibetan tradition of Buddhism in the 8th century. In the beginning, yoga was a simple thing. One sat down to meditate and breathe. In modern yoga, the aspect of breathing has been lost. The practice of breathing is reduced to the pranayama technique and one focuses more on the posture.
WeiterlesenThe word karma, in its Sanskrit translation, simply means "action". In the Western context, it is often used to refer to fate or fortune. However, the Buddha explicitly mentioned that this was not its real meaning.
Karma refers to the natural law that describes the workings of cause and effect. Each action is defined by a series of previous actions that are interdependent – each action triggers a multitude of subsequent actions. It is the impersonal play of cause and effect that is continuous, inexorable and completely dispassionate.
WeiterlesenVipassana meditation was already known in India about 2,500 years ago. The syllable „vi“ in Pali means clear or manifold, „passana“ means to see. Vipassana is therefore often translated as insight. Vipassana meditation is therefore about spiritual development, about gaining clear insight into the true nature of things.
In order to understand and deepen the practice method, it is necessary to realise that body and mind are impermanent, that suffering is all pervading and that there is not such a thing as the autonomous, independent self.
WeiterlesenHow do you stay resilient and resourceful when disasters threaten to swamp your boat? When a job is lost, a relationship unravels, cancer is diagnosed, when insecurity and distress seep through your circles of families and friends, how do you let yourself be “affected but not infected?”
WeiterlesenYoga and meditation share a common vision of the inherent potential of the human being to access a deeper dimension of his or her nature.
A basic attitude of not striving and allowing all experience to develop naturally from within characterizes both yoga and Mahamudra practice.
Within the evolution of the mindfulness-based or contemplative healing, mindfulness is only the first of three great waves as we call them.
We are starting to understand the power of embodied approaches, such as imagery, narrative, transforming narrative, and self-expression, breath work, movement and body posture.
The Buddhist tradition spent 4,000 years exploring how to use these techniques in powerful concerted ways that allow the deepest possible transformation of the nervous system.
Mindfulness developed very early in the Buddhist tradition. Buddha was trying to take the meditation practices of his day and make them accessible to anyone, and essentially turn them into a science.
Rather than mixing mindfulness with Western cognitive therapy, the Nalanda Institute takes a close look at the foundational elements of early Buddhist science and psychology that promote self-healing.
Showing strong emotions, be it socially or at the workplace, has traditionally been considered inappropriate and misplaced. Especially displays of negative emotions.
Yet, emotions are an integral part of who we are: it would be virtually impossible to expect anyone to leave their emotions behind when they cross the office door or when they connect to their next online meeting.
Meditation is a tool for introspection, a kind of microscope for the mind. It helps focus the mind’s eye on its own content i.e. thoughts, emotions and sensorial perceptions and to look at it from a defused perspective. Same as the scientist in the lab observes the molecules through a microscope.
WeiterlesenWhere does the root of fear, confusion and inner contraction lie – and how does it begin to dissolve? Lama Tsültrim Allione speaks about Machig Labdrön's core instructions on the nature of mind, the four demons and the practice of Chöd. She also reflects on her path as a nun, mother and grandmother, on founding Tara Mandala, and on what feminine leadership in Buddhism means today – grounded, relational and always close to lived life.
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