Category: Buddhism
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Second Four Exercises of Mindful Breathing
Breathing for Joy and Happiness: Breathing in, I know I am breathing in. Breathing out, I know I am breathing out. This dharma talk is the second part of a four-part series on mindful breathing given by Kenley Neufeld at Lulu Bandha in Ojai, California. Original date is September 29, 2013. Our text is from the…
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The First Four Exercises of Mindful Breathing
Breathing for Joy and Happiness: Breathing in, I know I am breathing in. Breathing out, I know I am breathing out. This dharma talk is the first part of a four-part series on mindful breathing given by Kenley Neufeld at Lulu Bandha in Ojai, California. Original date is September 22, 2013. Our text is from the…
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A Place of Refuge in Ojai
Practicing meditation together as a sangha, or community, is a transformative experience that can help you deepen your practice and nourish happiness and joy in your daily life. The sangha can be a place of refuge for all who attend. My intention as a dharma teacher is to provide a place of refuge and to…
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Working with our Relationships
Earlier this week I shared in our sangha newsletter a series of questions presented by Thich Nhat Hanh in Hong Kong this past May. He simply read off about 20 questions at the beginning of the Public Talk and invited the listeners to allow them to penetrate into their heart. They weren’t easy questions necessary.…
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Healing with Joy
This year I’ve been moving slowly through the Satipatthana Sutta. It’s bringing me much joy and enthusiasm for the practice. This Sutta is one of the foundational teachings from the Buddha. Like most teachings, the Sutta wasn’t written down for hundreds of years after the Buddha lived, but it was passed down orally from generation…
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Accessing Dharma Talks by Thich Nhat Hanh
We are currently in the midst of the Winter Retreat and Thich Nhat Hanh is giving dharma talks on Sunday and Thursday mornings (CET) each week. As in the past, most talks during winter are in Vietnamese with translations. The schedule will probably change slightly once we near Christmas and New Year. If you are…
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Mindfulness, Technology, Education, and Parenting
You might assume I was in my element at a conference dealing with mindfulness and technology – you assumed correctly! It was a blast to sit and use my iPad and iPhone during this mindfulness conference in Mountain View just a stones throw from Google. The Wisdom 2.0 Youth conference is an offshoot of the…