(While away on women's retreat with Ruth Denison, I decided to lend this blog to some of my favorite Buddhist women teachers.)
Continuing to explore fear, this time with Pema Chodron:
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Welcome to Mind Deep, a mindfulness practice blog and online community. Here, you will find answers to such questions as: what is it really like to practice mindfulness meditation? how can mindfulness practice help with stress, depression, chronic pain, dementia care, end-of-life, and other psychological problems? You may participate by leaving comments at the end of each post.
Marguerite Manteau-Rao
Student of mindfulness meditation. Founder of Presence Care Project, a new mindfulness-based approach to dementia care. Author, 'Caring for a Loved One with Dementia: A Mindfulness-Based Guide for Reducing Stress and Making the Best of Your Journey Together' (New Harbinger). Huffington Post contributor. Neuroscience and dementia care hacker at Neurocern, a software startup.
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- A Grammar of the Pali Language - Charles Duroiselle
- A Map of the Journey -U Jotika
- A taste of Freedom - Ajahn Chah
- A Tree in a Forest - Ajahn Chah
- Access to Insight Library
- All of Us - Ayya Khema
- An Unentangled Knowing - Upasika Kee Nanayon
- Awareness Alone is Not Enough - U Tejaniya
- Brahmavihara Dhamma - Mahasi Sayadaw
- Dhamma Discourses on Vipassana Meditation - U Kundala
- Dhammacakkapavattana Sutta - Mahasi Sayadaw
- Dhammapada - Thanissaro, Bhikkhu
- Essential Themes of Buddhist Lectures - Sayadaw U Thittilla
- Essentials of Insight Meditation Practice - Venerable Sujiva
- Facing the Future - Bikkhu Bodhi
- Forest Path - Wat Pah Nanachat Community
- Fundamentals of Vipassana Meditation - Mahasi Sayadaw
- Handbook for Mankind - Buddhadasa Bikkhu
- Here and Now - Ayya Khema
- In This Very Life - U Pandita
- Inspiration from Enlightened Nuns - Susan Elbaum Jootla
- Intuitive Awareness - Ajahn Sumedho
- Keeping the Breath in Mind & Lessons in Samadi - Ajaan Lee Dhammadharo
- Knowing and Seeing - Pa-Auk Sayadaw
- Maha Satipatthana Sutta - U Jotika & U Dhamminda
- Mindfulness of Breathing & Four Elements Meditation - Pa-Auk Sayadaw
- Mindfulness: The Path of the Deathless - Ajahn Sumedho
- No Inner Core - U Silananda
- Now is the Knowing - Ajahn Sumedho
- On the Path to Freedom - U Pandita
- Practical Vipassana Exercises - Mahasi Sayadaw
- Preparing for Death and Helping the Dying - Sangye Khadro
- Reading the Mind - K. Khao-Suan-Luang
- Snow in the Summer - U Jotika
- The Buddha and His Teachings - Narada Mahathera
- The Eightfold Path for the Householder - Jack Kornfield
- The Four Noble Truths - Ajahn Sumedho
- The Meaning of Satipatthana - U Pandita
- The Natural Cure for Spiritual Disease - Buddhadasa, Bhikkhu
- The Noble Eightfold Path - Bikkhu Boddhi
- The Practice Which Leads to Nibbana - Pa Auk Sayadaw
- The Teachings of Ajahn Chah
- Transcendental Dependent Arising - Bhikkhu Bodhi
- Wings of Awakening - Thanissaro Bhikkhu
"Rather than seeing ourselves as flawed, we see ourselves as full of potential." We have to always remember this! We are all a work in progress. Whenever I feel like a spiritual failure, I always say to myself, "well, imagine where you would be without your practice!" That puts things into perspective. Lovely clip.
ReplyDeleteYes, Donna. No energy to waste in self-flagellation. Rather, to see each mistake as an other opportunity to learn, and grow.
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