From over fifteen years of sharing her understanding of Buddhist concepts
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We send loving kindness to the Five Hindrances and voila!
In our ongoing exploration of the Fourth Foundation of Mindfulness, we are lingering a bit at the Five Hindrances to give ourselves some time for it all to sink in. We need time to practice what we learn so that it is experiential rather than theoretical.Whatever we are exploring, whatever we are doing, the two…
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Awareness dissolves mental hindrances
Last week I introduced The Five Hindrances, the first of the dhammas that make up the Fourth Foundation of Mindfulness. All these numbers and lists might have you throwing up your hands at this point. It does seem a little daunting. But any time you think, ‘This is too much,’ just allow yourself to rest…
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Fourth Foundation of Mindfulness – The Five Hindrances
If you have been practicing the first three Foundations — being mindful of physical sensation and our relationship to the body; noting feeling tones of pleasant, unpleasant and neutral; and noting mental phenomena (thoughts and emotions) as they arise and fall away — then you are ready to incorporate the Fourth Foundation, the dhammas, into…
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It’s a Jungle In There! Coming into Healthy Relationship with Our Minds
Continuing with our focus on the Third Foundation of Mindfulness… Imagine ‘pleasant’ ‘unpleasant and ‘neutral’ as seeds scattered in the garden of our minds. If we leave them to their own devices, if we are not mindful of them, they root and grow into a jungle of thoughts and emotions made up of desire, greed, aversion,…
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Third Foundation of Mindfulness – Awareness of Mental Phenomena
Last week we discussed the Second Foundation of Mindfulness and in class we practiced noting whether a current experience was ‘pleasant, unpleasant and neutral.’ The homework was to continue noting throughout the week, in meditation and in life. This noting is in addition to anchoring awareness in physical sensation. That is our foremost practice. All…
STEPHANIE NOBLE 