Search results for: middle way

  1. In Alignment
     … You go for a treatment, and the first couple of times it’s hard to keep things in alignment after the treatment; you find yourself going back to your old ways of walking, sitting, etc. But if you keep at it long enough, you begin to realize that this new middle here, the new alignment, is actually a lot better, and you’re more … 
  2. Protection Through Mindfulness Practice
     … But in your own case, you may find that, as you breathe in, a certain part of the energy can run a circle that goes up the front and down the back, or up the back and down the front, whichever way you want the energy to go. There are lots of different ways you can work with the energy. Don’t limit yourself … 
  3. Living Honorably
     … In fact, that was the image that gave the Buddha a sense of samvega—it could be translated as terror, dismay at being trapped in all this suffering and wanting to see a way out. That’s one image. The other image is the one that comes from a story concerning King Pasenadi. King Pasenadi comes to see the Buddha in the middle of … 
  4. Questioning Your Unconscious Actions
     … But to what extent is that rhythm caused by things going on in the mind that you’re not fully aware of? The best way to see that is to consciously change the way you think about the breath, to change the way you breathe, to go against what’s subconscious. That’s how you dig up some subconscious assumptions. There’s a resistance … 
  5. For Your Benefit Here & Now
     … Where are you focused in the body? Is your focus the right place to be focused right now? There are lots of places where you could be focused in the body—the tip of the nose, the middle of the forehead, in your palate, in the middle of the head, in your throat, your chest, your abdomen. If you find that focusing up in … 
  6. Adult Dhamma
    Adult Dhamma March 5, 2015 I was reading a review of a short-story collection recently, in which the reviewer was noting that although the author wasn’t experimental in the way she structured her stories, she was revolutionary or radical in that she treated her characters like adults, and her readers like adults. Unfortunately, that’s pretty rare. The same observation applies to … 
  7. Right View about Right View
     … You’ve got to see how it performs, because you can describe the world in all kinds of ways, but which description is going to be best at giving rise to dispassion? There’s that sutta where a group of monks are going abroad to a part of India that wasn’t in the Middle Country in India and before they go, the Buddha … 
  8. The Sport of Wise People
     … of light inside the body, extending down from the middle of the head, down through the spine. As you breathe in, think of the breath coming in from all directions into that pole of light, and as you breathe out think of it going out in all directions from that pole of light. This way, you’re not staying with just one spot. You … 
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