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Reflections on Mindfulness & Yoga

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Karma - Nothing Happens by Itself: Why Nothing, Not Even You, Happens Without Others

Last sitting in December we touched briefly on dependent origination , or dependent arising, and I want to come back to it here in a very simple way. A plain way to say it is this is "Everything exists because of something else". Nothing we experience just appears out of nowhere. Even something as simple as us sitting in meditation together doesn’t happen independently. It can feel as though we did it all ourselves: We decided to come. We chose the time to leave home. W

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Candle in the Wind: The Only Constant is Change

By the third sitting, a quiet question often starts to form: What are we actually noticing when we sit like this? This is where impermanence comes in. In the first sittings, we laid the ground: Sitting 1 was How we are distracted from being present / mindfulness (The Five Hindrances) Sitting 2 was How we can stay present and aware / mindful (The Four Foundations of Mindfulness) Sitting 3 (this one) is about What we see when we are present / aware and pay attention – Imperm

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The Quiet Art of Seeing Things As They Are; A Grounded Guide to the Four Foundations of Mindfulness

(Zen in Ten - part 2) Last week we explored the Five Hindrances - the things that pull us out of mindfulness and out of balance: desire, aversion, restlessness, dullness and doubt. These are the patterns that make our life feel heavy, messy or unsatisfying. They’re normal, human and very familiar. But they can also create problems when we get caught up in them. This week, we step back and look at the bigger picture: Zen teaches us that suffering or dissatisfaction is part of

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The Five Hindrances

The Five Hindrances - A Gentle Guide to Obstacles in Meditation - First sitting of Zen in Ten At Amandari, we know that the path of meditation may not always be as smooth as we'd like. When we study Zen or any other form of meditation, usually we come across what the wise ones call the “five hindrances” quite early on in our studies . It's tempting to think "done that, covered that, ticked that box, moving along". But actually, we continue to work with these obstacles pret

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Zen in Ten: Meditation for All Practices

Wednesdays 4.30pm Nov. 26th - Dec. 3rd - Dec. 10th - Dec. 17th Meditation comes in many forms - Mindfulness, Zen, TM, Yoga and many other traditions and forms. But at the heart, it’s all the same practice: the essence is shared. Zen in Ten is a series of four meditation sittings designed to support both newcomers and experienced practitioners. Each session includes a 10-minute introduction to the principles that underpin our practice , offering simple insights into meditat

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Anger, Yoga and You...

When anger rises - whether it’s sparked by a stressful work situation, an unexpected remark from a loved one or even frustration with ourselves - our first instinct is often to push it away, to react or to numb it. Friends and self-help books tell us to “let go” “let it out” or “don’t feel that way,” but what if those very reactions make it harder to find clarity and peace? Classical yoga and Zen offer a different perspective to our Western experience of anger. Whereas Weste

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