Yoga
fromYoga Journal
6 days agoThis Subtle Movement Can Help You Protect Your Energy Reserves
Pranayama is a vital practice in yoga, focusing on breath control and energy manipulation through specific muscular locks.
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Parenting
fromSilicon Canals
2 weeks agoI meditated every morning for three years and I was still the most reactive person in every room I walked into - and a monk in Thailand told me the problem wasn't my practice, it was that I was using stillness as preparation for chaos instead of learning to find stillness inside the chaos itself - Silicon Canals
Emotional neglect occurs when parents provide materially but fail to be emotionally present for their children.
Philosophy
fromThe Conversation
4 weeks agoThe long history of silent meditation retreats and the individuals who helped shape them
Burmese meditation master Sayagyi U Ba Khin's 10-day silent mindfulness retreats became a foundational model for secular meditation practices now widespread in the United States.
Philosophy
fromThe Conversation
1 month ago'The Tibetan Book of the Dead' is actually not just about death
The Tibetan Book of the Dead, originally titled "The Great Liberation by Hearing in the Intermediate States," is the most well-known Tibetan Buddhist text outside Tibet, addressing spiritual liberation through death and rebirth practices.
fromPsychology Today
1 month agoWhat If You're Fundamentally Not Flawed?
But we are all as an unclean thing, and all our righteousness are as filthy rags; and we all do fade as a leaf; and our iniquities, like the wind, have taken us away. It was bracing language for an 8-year-old. Not only was I unclean, but even my best attempt at goodness was filthy.
Writing
fromYogaRenew
2 months agoThe Ahankara
They look nervously at the cameras. The prize, they are told, is beyond description, but "it is what everyone wants!" The first question is asked: "Who are you?" The fastest contestant with the buzzer rings in - "Michelle!" they cry out confidently. BUZZ - the sound for the wrong answer rings out loudly. Another contestant seizes the moment and squeezes their buzzer. "A Man!" he states with utmost confidence. BUZZ - wrong again.
Philosophy
fromDeconstructing Yourself
2 months agoNondual Awakening on the Waking Up App
He wrote Waking Up back in 2014, and the app is based on the insights from that book. What's interesting about Sam is that people mostly knew him as one of the Four Horsemen of New Atheism, but what they didn't know is that he spent much of his twenties going back and forth between Nepal and India studying primarily with Tibetan Buddhist teachers, also Advaita traditions.
Mindfulness
fromwww.theguardian.com
2 months agoI drove hours to see the monks walking for peace. Five minutes with them was the gift of a lifetime
The monks are part of a 2,300-mile pilgrimage for peace from a Buddhist temple in Fort Worth, Texas, across nine states to Washington DC. Dressed in vibrant orange robes, they have walked about 20 miles daily, eating one meal a day and practicing loving-kindness a form of mindfulness that can be thought of as a form of non-violent resistance. Their journey is a slow-moving meditation meant to embody peace, rather than argue for it.
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