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You can find a brief description of the four areas of wise (right) effort in the following link from Insight Meditation of the South Bay:  Four Right Efforts. Similar to the quote from Greg Kramer, Christina Feldman describes the benefits of learning to dwell in joyful effort in our practice. This means not approaching our practice with… Continue reading Updated Resources for Meditation and Support

Gil Fronsdal wrote an article on Buddhist practice as a way of learning to benefit both self and others. We can express this mutual benefit through our work, but also through the choices we make to support and benefit ourselves and others. You can find that article here:  A Life of Mutual Benefit An article by Krishnan Venkatesh… Continue reading Updated Resources for Meditation and Support

Gil Fronsdal wrote an article on Buddhist practice as a way of learning to benefit both self and others. We can express this mutual benefit through our work, but also through the choices we make to support and benefit ourselves and others. You can find that article here:  A Life of Mutual Benefit An article by Krishnan Venkatesh… Continue reading Updated Resources for Meditation and Support

Gil Fronsdal has an article on the value of mindfulness and compassion in what he refers to as ethical sensitivity. You can find that article here: Ethical Sensitivity. Jake Davis wrote an article about ways in which we can use mindfulness and investigation to explore our own experience and figure out which actions are right or… Continue reading Updated Resources for Mediation and Support

If you don’t have Gregory Kramer’s book, Insight Dialogue: The Interpersonal Path to Freedom, you can find brief introductions to each of the Insight Dialogue guidelines at this website: Insight Dialogue Community. You can also find some excellent approaches to learning to listen deeply and speak from the heart at Oren Jay Sofer’s website, including the… Continue reading Updated Resources for Meditation and Support

We are presently discussing Gregory Kramer’s book, Insight Dialogue: The Interpersonal Path to Freedom. and A Whole Life Path, at our Thursday night discussions. If you are attending the discussions and don’t have the book or just want to learn more about Insight Dialogue you can find brief introductions to each of the Insight Dialogue guidelines… Continue reading Updated Resources for Mediation and Support

Gil Fronsdal provides a good description of the Buddha’s classical teachings on right speech that you can find at this link: Right Speech Insight Dialogue is a relational form of Insight Meditation developed by Gregory Kramer and described in his book Insight Dialogue, the Interpersonal Path to Freedom. He describes six guidelines that can help… Continue reading Updated Resources for Meditation and Support

As many of you know, Vietnamese Zen master Thich Nhat Hanh, known affectionately as Thay, passed away a couple of weeks ago. He was the originator of the term, Engaged Buddhism, and focused on the practice of mindfulness and on the ways that our practice of mindfulness and compassion can support us as we work… Continue reading Updated Resources for Meditation and Support

Chapter 7 of Gil Fronsdal’s book The Issue at Hand has a short but very clear discussion of intention and the role it plays in our lives, and the value of mindfulness of our intentions in each moment. You can find that chapter here: The Issue at Hand: Chapter 7: Karma The selection by Gil Fronsdal cited above… Continue reading Updated Resources for Meditation and Support

Here’s a discussion of impermanence by Gil Fronsdal which does a good job of identifying different ways of understanding and realizing impermanence. This can allow us to begin to let go of some of the clinging that can lead to dissatisfaction in life. You can find that article here: Impermanence. A monk and a lay follower of the… Continue reading Updated Resources for Meditation and Support