In my short life as a meditator I’ve noticed that when the mind finally settles down it gets into a creative mode and generates insights. The temptation is then strong to allow myself to stay with those ideas for fear of forgetting or because they appear to be more exciting that just sitting. Wouldn’ that [...]
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Dealing with creative ideas during meditation
Posted in Meditation, Mind, tagged creativity, Meditation, thoughts on September 22, 2009 | 3 Comments »
Spinning world of desires
Posted in Body work, Buddhism, Meditation, practice, tagged Kabir, resistance, zazen on June 20, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Since I started doing sitting meditation one of my legs (or both) would inevitably fall asleep and for the most part the sitting would evolve around staying with those sensations in the body. I know it is not harmful for my health and would probably pass with time so I just accepted it as [...]
Practice unfolding: real tools in the toolbox
Posted in Books and Ideas, Buddhism, Meditation, tagged Insight, Meditation, techniques on May 6, 2009 | 3 Comments »
In episode 118 Buddhist Geeks interviewed Daniel Ingram on his book Mastering the Core Teachings of the Buddha that Daniel revised and made available online in PDF-format (Thanks, Daniel!)
Why all this excitement about yet another book on Dharma? Books we have plenty of but manuals packed with straightforward techniques – not so many. Daniel describes [...]
Meditation and the brain
Posted in Buddhism, Meditation, brain, resources, tagged brain, creativity, Meditation, Mind on April 24, 2009 | 8 Comments »
Although not a mega meditator, with time I noticed some effects of meditation and got curious in what exactly happens in the brain when I sit on the cushion and watch my mind jumping around, patiently learning to bring attention to the intention and stay with life itself instead of the virtual reality my mind [...]
Charter for Compassion. Will you listen?
On November 12, thousands of people across the globe will listen together.A Personal Note From Irisha
Welcome to AR blog! What matters to me in this brief life is the exploration of what it is like to be human, learning to be present in my own life without the constant struggle - "to feel yet not to suffer" as Adrienne Rich wrote - and getting to know how my mind works, who and what I am underneath the layers of conditioning.
Here I reflect on how to be awake in the activities of life itself and on anything that has to do with practice on and off the cushion. I am happy to share the blog space with others who feel they have something to say about their practice.Reading
Primate's Memoir: Love, Death and Baboons in East Africa by Robert M Sapolsky
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I want to unfold. I don't want to stay folded anywhere, because where I am folded, there I am untrue.
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