Surrender

By Halina Sobrado Wydrzycka | 3/27/2022

There is no way to sit and meditate hour after hour without renouncing, surrendering. Surrendering to the process itself. To continue to hold on to the mind is an ordeal. There is no way to attend to stillness while clinging to the mind, this wild animal pulling in all directions.

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Leaves of Gold

By Silvia Escorel | 3/27/2022

Leaves of gold shine

on the fresh white snow

and my heart soars as my boots sink.

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Reflections on the Noble Eightfold Path in Practice and Daily Life, Part 1 of 4

By Bruce Stewart | 3/27/2022

In November of 2018, I gave a talk on the Noble Eightfold Path at an Annual Old Student Meeting at Dhamma Patāpa, a center in rural Georgia in the tradition of SN Goenka, or Goenkaji as he is affectionately known. My intent was to present a perspective about how the Eightfold Path intersects with our meditation practice and daily lives, based on my teaching experience, practice, and reading over the decades in this tradition.

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Contemplation

By Patrick Given-Wilson | 3/20/2022

Patrick Given-Wilson

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Saturated with Awareness

By Paul and Susan Fleischman | 3/20/2022

As a spring-fed pond wells up with water from its cool depths,
and also receives rain from above
sent by the rain-god from time to time,
so that the rain from above and the spring water from below
mingle,
this pond will become washed through and radiant with fresh
water.

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Following Dreams with Equanimity - Day 8

By Manish Chopra | 3/20/2022

I lunched quickly and went back to my room to think through a few questions I intended to ask at 12:30 pm after the formal Q&A session open to all students was over, as I had prearranged a private meeting through the server managing the course. I headed up eagerly to the Dhamma Hall at 12:20 pm so I might get an extra minute or two with him in case he wasn’t meeting with another student and I could also catch the tail end of the official Q&A period.

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Opening the Cage

By Andrée François | 3/5/2022

Andrée François

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The Rabbit's Foot: Personal Responsibility as a Step towards Liberation

By Pierre Robert | 3/5/2022

When I was a child I believed, as did many my age, that carrying a rabbit's foot in my pocket had the power to bring me luck. I never left home without my precious lucky charm, and I would close my eyes while rubbing the fetish, hoping that my latest wish would come true. This ritual was not unlike the fervour I put into my evening prayers, kneeling with my hands folded: "God, please let me have a new pair of skates for Christmas!" or "God, please don't let my mother find out I broke her mirror!"

At some point I had to face the fact that my prayers were rarely answered, and so the rabbit's foot eventually ended its career at the bottom of a trash can along with my declaration: "That thing doesn’t work!"

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