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Walter Young
Приєднався 15 гру 2007
Skill in means
It’s helpful every so often to ask ourselves what we’re doing and why we’re doing it. What habits are we reinforcing and what kind of life are we building for ourselves? What it is that we’re cultivating? And if we have a spiritual practice of any kind, maybe to ask ourselves whether that practice is helping us to respond to our world more skilfully.
The Buddha’s teachings encourage us to hold our practice lightly. To apply what we’ve learned in a practical way, not to encumber ourselves with it.
The Buddha’s teachings encourage us to hold our practice lightly. To apply what we’ve learned in a practical way, not to encumber ourselves with it.
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There is a middle path
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Often the path requires us to embrace apparent contradictions. Some of our practice has to be understood from different perspectives, depending on how we’re going to apply it. Training ourselves to stay with the opposites helps us keep our minds pliable and open. It counteracts our tendency to fit everything we hear into our existing world view.
Fearless and loving
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One way to practise fearlessness and a more open, receptive relationship with our world is through the Brahmaviharas, also known as the heart practices. These four qualities of friendliness, compassion, joy, and equanimity describe our potential for emotional and psychological freedom. They’re capacities that already exist in us. By cultivating them, we’re making them our natural home.
Ananda's grief
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The Buddha's disciple Ananda appears throughout the early scriptures as someone who was faithful, humble and above all, human. In many ways, he wasn't the perfect monk. There are occasions when his sensitivity and his expressions of grief seem at odds with the Buddha's teachings on non-attachment and impermanence. His honesty makes him an excellent role model. It’s easy to get uptight and self-...
Every corner of the room
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There are parts of ourselves that we choose not to share with the world, patterns and beliefs that we don’t want to acknowledge, even to ourselves. If you ever notice yourself reacting or becoming lost in rumination, there’s an opportunity to learn about yourself. It might be time to shift your attention from the outside world back inside.
A river not a toaster
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In our meditation practice we’re not trying to rise above the raw and messy. We’re not trying to transcend our humanness. We’re practising opening to our tenderness, our vulnerability, our sensitivity, our insubstantial nature.
Faith and doubt
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The Pali word ‘saddhā’ is often translated as ‘faith’, but a better translation might be ‘trust’ or ‘confidence’. Saddhā conveys a willingness to engage in and commit to practice. There’s no need for belief in a higher power or a deity because saddhā is grounded in direct personal experience.
Holding patterns
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Whatever feelings we refuse to accept will simply keep agitating us until we accept them. Purification happens when we stop, listen to the body and allow feelings to be just as they are. If we keep doing that, over and over again, the habits of reactivity and clinging are gradually eradicated.
The factors of awakening
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One of the reasons we practise meditation is to train ourselves to handle all of the ups and downs, from the smallest irritations to the greatest sorrows in our lives. The teachings on the seven factors of awakening, which can be seen as a map of the territory, describe a series of steps that lead us to a place of steadiness and resilience.
A bundle of energy
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When we meditate, we find out things about ourselves, like how easily we’re distracted. Sometimes when we have difficulty concentrating, we’re simply unwilling to accept what’s happening right now. What’s really going on is avoidance. By sensing into the energy in the body, we’re tuning in to the present moment. We’re saying ‘this is what’s happening, right now, and it’s fine’.
Gratitude
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As humans we have a natural negativity bias. We’re acutely sensitive to things that upset or trouble us. Our capacity for gratitude and appreciation counteracts this. Acknowledging the good in our lives supports our sense of wellbeing and makes us less prone to depression.
There's nothing missing
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Expecting pleasant feelings to remain stable means fighting against reality. Everything that arises passes; feelings change, often within a few seconds. And yet still we react and cling as though our lives depend on it.
A gift to the collective
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We’re not meditating so that we can rise above all that’s wrong in the world. Sometimes we have to engage with it. Sometimes we have to speak out against what’s unjust, and not from a place of hate and anger, but with openness and compassion. This is the challenge of our lives.
Equanimity
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Your habits aren’t who you are. When you notice yourself reacting to something, it’s just a pattern, a movement of energy. It’s not who you are, it’s a fleeting reaction. One minute it’s there, the next it’s gone. You don’t have to identify with it. To see that is to be free.
Taking Refuge
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Our need for security shapes the way we live. Most of us take refuge in our own home, our possessions, our bank account and there’s nothing wrong with that. We can mostly rely on our home to keep us warm and comfortable, our car to get us where we want to go, but we can’t rely on these things for more than that. They’re not going to offer us lasting peace and happiness. They’re not going to mak...
Investigating the three characteristics
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Investigating the three characteristics
When I run I close my eyes and imagine myself as non duality
I appreciate this
i was just today thinking maybe there is no middle way, we are moving like constants is some sort of way, always changing, always rebalancing and never on the one side or the other, the middle ground is just that, a thin line but what do i know, somehow i got this interesting video recommended to me today, and that it interesting in itself
Great messages here. Thank you
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I love you Lakshmi so cute
You did Great!!!
epic win bro.
Yeah, we had a lovely time there. A really peaceful place.
did you like the hill safari eco lodge?
Good try! We would like to invite you to sing a full Jose Jose English song from our channel. There is only three all belonging to our channel. Let us know if you are interested. You should post many more songs!
Muy bien chamo!!!
muy muy buena carnal arriva mexico!!!
GOOD JOB<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<TALENTO muy bueno
fuck man... nice job...
nicely done
no mames!!!!! buena gringo..
awsome, smooth playin .nice !!
bien hecho good job
yo te apoyo es bueno que un cantante Mexicano sea tan conocido en tantos paises
Canta bien...claro, con acento. Pero lo que cuenta es que obviamente as admirador de uno de los mejores interpretes de habla hispana. No creo que se la haya "matado" a Jose Jose....No hay mejor halago que el ser imitado....Great cover!
te mereces aplausos, has elegido a los dos cantantes más representativos de latinoamérica, un aplauso adicional por tener la valentía de cantar el triste una canción super complicada y bueno ni que decir del gran Héctor. Sigue así queda símpatico con tu acento sigue el ejemplo de Nat King Cole. felicitaciones
es un insulto a jose jose ;) no mentira bueno lo haces bien ya quisiera tener ese bosarron. saludos chao
si,opino lo mismo que tu,suena como a gabacho,o..brasileiro.
AWESOME job my man.
the sound of the guitar is awesome! very romantic i love it!!!
that was a very good cover, where did you get the tabs for this song?
good for speak english i saw otherbut is shit! aehmm you are number one and the guitar is nice good loock atte el evirkc pnd sce!!! bye zayonara !!!
tocas bien la guitarra pero como cantante no la haces amigo a la proxima tu tocas yo canto jajaja
Muy bien, por cierto me recuerdas a roberto carlos por el acento.
Hey James, this is one of the most beloved and hardest songs in spanish. For you to learn the guitar and at the same time nail the song is awesome. Keep it up. As you can tell from watching the original '78 video Jose Jose was awesome. Take care bro
no mames este weii le metio su propio estilo a la cancion y si la dejo muy bien jaja sinceramente no me esperaba esto porque la cancion original es muy dificil pero realmente esta version me gusto un buen... gracias sigue asi amigo! tu estilo es unico enhorabuena
pues bastante malo para cantar, su merito es hablar español
Se oye muy bien... Es admirable hacerlo en otro idioma Saludos desde México
thats awesome dude!, i need the tabs for that song! lol