One of my favorite ways to make meditation deeper is to observe the interplay of skandhas. From the early Buddhist point of view, these factors are what make up the world and a conventional self.
Metta is a wonderful practice and a wonderful mind-state. The act of blessing or making an aspiration for someone is powerful. But I'd like to make a point that I haven't yet written about: metta is not a practice about making things nice.
A lot of us have chairs that talk to us, but our chairs are internal. They provide a spot for the inner critic, the committee that makes us question our buddhahood.
An article in Wired Magazine from March 2012 titled "The Forgetting Pill erases Painful Memories Forever". describes an experimental therapy for removing negative memories to help patients struggling with Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD), in...
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NPR did a great story yesterday, following in the footsteps of the documentary Dhamma Brothers, on the success of the Vipassana meditation program at Donaldson maximum security prison in Alabama. It is very...
