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At the center of your being, you have the answer. – Lao Tzu

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Category: cooking pot analogy

February 15, 2020 cooking pot analogy / Eightfold Path / insight meditation / meditation / Wise Action / Wise Livelihood / Wise Speech

What’s that smell?

The aroma rising from something cooking occurs long after all the ingredients have been chopped, measured, mixed and heated. Yet,

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January 10, 2020 cooking pot analogy / Eightfold Path / exhaustion / meditation / wise effort

Are you overdoing or underdoing?

I’ve always found the Buddha’s many lists of wisdom teachings difficult to remember. You too? All of them are valuable,

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July 23, 2017 Buddhism / cooking pot analogy / Eightfold Path / self-exploration

Sniff, sniff. What’s cooking?

One of the Buddha’s most handy-dandy teachings is called the Noble Eightfold Path. It’s a practical tool for sorting out

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March 4, 2017 analogy / Buddhism / cooking pot analogy / Eightfold Path / inquiry / insight / wisdom

Working with the Eightfold Path

For eight weeks we have been exploring the Buddha’s Wise Eightfold Path in order to incorporate it into our lives

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August 18, 2013 cooking pot analogy / Four Noble Truths / Fourth Foundation of Mindfulness / http://schemas.google.com/blogger/2008/kind#post

The Buddha’s Noble Eightfold Path

We’ve been exploring the First and Second Noble Truths: the existence of suffering, dukkha, and the causes of dukkha. In

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March 24, 2011 behavior / cooking pot analogy / http://schemas.google.com/blogger/2008/kind#post / inquiry / Jack Kornfield / Lena Horne quote / meditation / Right Action / self-discovery / Spacious Action

Spacious Action – ‘It’s not the load that breaks you down’

When we look at our cooking pot analogy of the Eightfold Path, we can see how Right Action or, as

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February 23, 2011 Buddha / cooking pot analogy / http://schemas.google.com/blogger/2008/kind#post / jhanas / meditation / Right Concentration / samadhi / Spacious Concentration

Eightfold Path: Spacious Concentration

I am teaching the Eightfold Path in a slightly different order than is traditional*, because two years ago when we

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May 6, 2009 cooking pot analogy / http://schemas.google.com/blogger/2008/kind#post / meditation / visualization

Eight Fold Path Meditation

Now that we have explored the Eightfold Path, the next step is to incorporate it fully into our practice. Using

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April 29, 2009 analogy / cooking pot analogy / Four Noble Truths / http://schemas.google.com/blogger/2008/kind#post / open embrace / summary

Eightfold Path: The Cooking Pot Analogy

This blog is titled Open Embrace Meditations, and in the first post I explained why, but that was over 50

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Stephanie Noble

Since 2004, Stephanie has taught her Thursday women's insight meditation group, now on Zoom. Contact for an invitation. She serves as a board member of the Buddhist Insight Network.

“Stephanie is an experienced Buddhist teacher with a deep practice and a very kind heart. My meditation group is fortunate to receive the benefits of her presence and teaching.”
– Rick Hanson, PhD., N.Y. Times bestselling author of Buddha’s Brain, Neurodharma, and other books

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