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WELCOME TO SOUL PAGES
The Amandari journal
Reflections on Mindfulness & Yoga
from past classes for your inspiration.
Some articles are by other teachers or authors;
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How to live a happier life in 2018
In recent times, when we don’t feel happy, we have various cures available to us to increase our happiness. Professional health services...
7 min read
Equanimity
What is equanimity? Equanimity is a quality of the mind and the heart that is impartiality. Equanimity is the quality of mind that...
3 min read
Meditating on Equanimity
(for more background on equanimity, see here) To meditate and generate the wonderful quality of equanimity .... First we sit comfortably...
2 min read
How to generate bodhicitta / compassion through meditation
Bodhicitta: Compassion, altruism. What is compassion? If you search the word 'compassion', one of the descriptions that comes up is: ...
5 min read
Adding Bodhicitta to your meditation ...
I recently collaborated with someone to teach a Mindfulness meditation class at an event - and some parts of the presentation led me,...
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Can this thing called fear be ended immediately?
"Can this thing called fear be ended immediately?" This is part of a set of questions or koans that was given to me some years ago, (see...
4 min read
Some interesting koans ...
Last week I came across a (by now a bit tatty) piece of paper that was given to me years ago, at a meditation retreat. When we arrived,...
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Can we silence the mind?
It’s very common to hear people say that, in meditation, we must quieten or silence the mind and search within for answers. Yet according...
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Wabi-sabi: Time is a Gift
What is Wabi-Sabi? The Japanese view of life embraced a simple aesthetic
that grew stronger as inessentials were eliminated
and trimmed...
3 min read
Beginner's Mind
"In the Beginner's mind there are many possibilities, but in the expert's there are few" In his book, Zen Mind, Beginner's Mind, Shunryu...
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Mindfulness and Traces of Shadows.
In his book, "Zen Mind, Beginners Mind", Shunryu Suzuki talks about Mindfulness and how our mind and our thinking is made complicated by...
4 min read
A Kintsugi Life - the beautiful art of Kintsugi, Mindfulness and Ernest Hemmingway
I have a fondness for distressed objects. Weathered, worn or rusted, a chip or a crack in a thing has never bothered me much and, to me,...
3 min read
Mindfulness can be everywhere...
I have an immense appreciation of mindfulness meditation because it gives me the ability to focus on what's happening right in front of...
4 min read
Use Unpleasantness to your Advantage - Unpleasantness is a skill
Although is possible to side-step the complexities and nadirs of life, this only provides a frail illusion of inner peace, fragile and...
1 min read
Mindfulness Meditation as an Offering
offering (noun) a thing offered, especially as a gift or contribution. David Brazier writes an article on Mindfulness and reciting (the...
3 min read
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