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 OVERVIEWS

 

Noble Eightfold Path

A Path of Diverse Practices

Overview of Buddhist Traditions

38 Objects of Meditation in the Theravada Tradition

People can lose their lives in libraries.
They ought to be warned.
~ Saul Bellow

SITTING & SETTLING

 

Buddhist Meditation: What & Why

Sitting Easy, Resting in Attention (basic meditation instructions)

If sitting is painful, take a look at Jeff Bickford’s exercises for flexibility
and at Will Johnson’s book Aligned, Relaxed, Resilient

LOOKING

 

Awareness Through Breathing (Anapanasati)

Stability (Shamatha) and Clarity (Vipashyana)

Opening to the Four Foundations of Mindfulness

Awareness of Sensations

Awareness of Feelings

Cycles of Reactivity and Attention

Reactivity and the Five Groups of Experience (skandhas)

12 Links of Dependent Arising

Knots

Because in the heart
of darkness I could not see,
I began looking.
~ Hayden Carruth

 

Where is the wisdom we have lost in knowledge?
Where is the knowledge we have lost in information?
~ T. S. Eliot

KINDNESS & COMPASSION

Brahma-viharas

Verses from Shantideva’s Bodhisattva Way

Four Immeasurables from the Unfettered Mind website

Seven Points of Mind Training from the Unfettered Mind website

Longchenpa’s prayer of compassion

Forty one verses to cultivate awakenening mind

Sabbe satta sukhi hontu (May all beings be happy) audio

Compassion is the willingness to play in the
field of dreams even though you are awake.
~ Matthew Flickstein, Swallowing the River Ganges

MOTIVATION & INSPIRATION

 

Motivation: First Things First

Four Thoughts That Turn the Mind

Ability and Willingness

Lineage of teachers

 Poetry is news that stays news.
~ Ezra Pound

PRESENCE

 

Mahamudra texts by the great siddhas of the tradition

Eight Strayings from Mahamudra

We are such stuff as dreams are made of... ~ The Tempest

Our truest life is when we are in our dreams awake.
~ Henry David Thoreau

MOVING

 

Resources for Embodied Energy 

Moving in Awareness: The Eight Pieces of Brocade

Eight Pieces on one page

18 Movements of Taiji Qigong (Shibashi)

Standing Like a Tree (Zhan Zhuang)

Movement Practices for Meditators by Jeff Bickford

"Yogi, what time is it?" someone asked.
Yogi Berra replied, "You mean now?"

 INTERACTING

 

Notes on Gregory Kramer’s Insight Dialogue method

Practice group dynamics and structures

Four levels of structural dynamics in groups

Internal and external supports for structure and freedom

Organizational issues for practice groups

Guidance on Finding a Buddhist Teacher or Organization

Twenty Essential Rules for the Zen Community by Baizhang

Three Ways of Looking at Paying for Spiritual Teachings by Franca Leeson

Seven Languages for Transformation by Robert Kegan and Lisa Laskow Lahey

Nonviolent communication

 STUDYING

 

Buddhist List of Lists

The Sutras

Reading list corresponding to the chapters in Wake Up To Your Life by Ken McLeod

Buddhist books by Northwest authors

Buddhist websites

 The end of all meeting is parting.
The end of all accumulation is dispersal.
The end of all building is ruin.
The end of all living is dying.

 

There is a tame, and also a wild, side to the human mind. The tame side, like a farmer's field, has been disciplined and cultivated to produce a desired yield. It is useful but limited. The wild side is larger, deeper, more complex, and though it cannot be fully known, it can be explored... It has landscapes and creatures within it that will surprise us. It can refresh us and scare us. Wild mind reflects the larger truth of our ancient selves, of our ancient animal and spiritual selves... The wildness gives heart, courage, love, spirit, danger, compassion, skill, fierceness, and sweetness -- all at once --

~ Gary Snyder, Writers and the War Against Nature

 

 

 

 

The wind whistles in the bamboo and the bamboo dances.
When the wind stops the bamboo grows still.
A silver bird flies over the autumn lake.
When it has passed, the lake’s surface does not try
to hold onto the image of the bird.

~ Dhyana master Huong Hai (1627-1715)
translated by Thich Nhat Hanh

 

Gotami, the qualities of which you may know,
"These qualities lead to passion, not to dispassion; to being fettered, not to being unfettered; to accumulating, not to shedding; to self-aggrandizement, not to modesty; to discontent, not to contentment; to entanglement, not to seclusion; to laziness, not to aroused persistence; to being burdensome, not to being unburdensome":
You may definitely hold, "This is not the Dhamma, this is not the Vinaya, this is not the Teacher’s instruction."

~ Gotami Sutta (AN 8.53)