By Andrée François | 9/17/2022
By Stuart Nicholls | 9/17/2022
With the fire eyes of samādhi,
I feel my body on every part.
With the warm glow of anicca,
I melt the darkness from my heart.
By Paul R Fleischman | 9/17/2022
Today there is a burgeoning
field of research called positive psychology, defining an optimal life.
The most popular course ever taught at Yale University was given by the
psychologist, Dr. Laurie Santos, “Psychology and the Good Life.” Half
the university signed up for this one course, which had to be given by
video transmission into numerous overflow halls. Its online edition has
had one hundred seventy thousand people from one hundred and seventy
countries enrolled. It is interesting for a Vipassana meditator to
notice how much of positive psychology was already available 2500 years
ago in the teaching of the Buddha. Let’s look at a few features of the
Buddha’s dispensation which have now been trumpeted as important
discoveries of positive psychology, and which might help us as we
meditate in troubled times.
By Andrée François | 9/3/2022
By Paul R Fleischman | 9/3/2022
Noble Truths: We are always in danger but usually we
find ways to keep this unsettling truth at bay. In the legend of the
Buddha, he ran away from home to seek wisdom when he understood the
pervasive reality of illness, old age, and death, the very factors that
compound to make our coronavirus pandemic so powerful. We are current
members of all the generations who have had to come to grips with the
recognition that illness is intrinsic to existence, and can be perceived
either grimly, or can be taken as a provocation to promote the kind of
insightful living that life actually demands of us.
