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Resources by Category: Meditation articles

These articles come from my old site and are a partial subset of a longer series not yet completed. Until the other ones are written  these may not make complete sense on their own. They offered here "as-is, where-is" in the hope they may be useful anyway.

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Going deeper – meditation websites

A few interesting websites on meditation including some less known but excellent teachers. Plus!...

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A few understandings that help with anger

When you are angry, don’t assume that anger is the main or final emotion....

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Gurdjieff Sacred Dance: meditation in movement

The many hundreds of Gurdjieff sacred dances, were created by the great life teacher G....

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Friday in heaven, Friday from hell: radical non-duality in action

’ll invite you to imagine Friday afternoon in two alternate realities, two parallel universes, Friday...

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Mindfulness can’t escape the sacred

Real meditation, of any school, moves inevitably towards the sacred. Secularised mindfulness not meditation.

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“Radical” meditation

Some schools of meditation, including Advaita, Buddhism, Osho, Zen and many others, set out...

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“Thoughts” includes EVERYTHING

Watch your thoughts - yes. But "thoughts" includes all your hopes, dreams, beliefs -...

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Radical non-duality: The Song of Ashtavakra

The Song of Ashtavakra presents in a few compressed pages the same truths that...

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Thoughts are physical, not mental

The buzzing thoughts that interfere with happiness and won’t go away when you meditate are not...

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Meditation is not Stop Action

There’s nothing in the definition of meditation about sitting still or closing your eyes....

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Meditation: not sitting still

The definition of meditation: relaxed, alert, no judgements. No reference to breathing, no reference...

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Mindfulness madness in the US military

Soldiers meditating before they fight and kill; how scientific "mindfulness" has misunderstood Buddhism.

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Everyone longs for love, few long for meditation

All of us long for love. Very few long for meditation.

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Meditation and mindfulness in therapy

I can’t imagine therapy separate from meditation. They are intertwined. Many aspects of therapy are...

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Following your inner voice: Peter Gabriel’s Solsbury Hill

This is the first of a series of posts on changing your life, as...

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