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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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We believe the stories we tell ourselves
IDENTIFICATION WITH MIND. If you were to ask yourself "who am I?", how would you answer? Perhaps you'd say you are a mother, father,...
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Positive Energy Never Lies - The Quantum Physics of Yoga Energy
Yoga and meditation has worked with energy in and around the body for a couple of thousand years. Only recently modern science is...
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In the Beginning ...
Notes on Week 1 of 5 - Mindfulness There are all sort of ideas and misconceptions about Mindfulness and about meditation. There is a...
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Just Sitting
Meditation practices can transform the way you think and the way you view the world. Madras Buddha, Arlene Shechet, 1997, hydrocal and...
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Who Am I? I don't know what this is ...
A lof of Zen practice is about looking beyond the conventional idea of our experiences. Our practice, the art of meditative enquiry, can...
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Cultivating the Courage to Be Generous
Joshua Bee Alafia explores alobha, giving freely without attachment, in an excerpt from this month’s Dharma Talk. By Joshua Bee Alafia...
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Things As They Are: Some Thoughts on Solitude and Loneliness
"The Life of a Zen Master is one continuous mistake."— Dogen Zenji (1200 - 1253). “There is an ancient peace you carry in your heart and...
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Preparing for Yoga Nidra
Hello lovely people. I've put together some suggestions on how to set up for Sunday and a quickie explanation, in case this is your first...
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The Anatomy of Insight
In our practice, we often talk about, experience (and are possibly humbled?) by what we call insights. Today we’re taking a moment to...
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Don't Kill, Don't Steal and Watch What You Say – Skillful Minds Create Skillful Words.
There is something fundamental to our practice called the 'E ightfold Path ', which is a set of guidelines to help us navigate and ease...
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59 Zen Teachings / Lojong Instructions
POINT ONE -Resolve to Begin 1. Train in the preliminaries. POINT TWO -Train in Empathy and Compassion:Absolute Compassion 2. See...
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Laugh your way to enlightenment
We can use laughter and humour to help us along our spiritual path. – July 2022 The traditional Zen stories are full of funny responses...
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Problems are a matter of perspective.
First of all, may I say that usually, when I look at a problem I am having, it disappears quite quickly when I stop taking myself too...
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Do It Anyway - Zen version - work in progress
Often we think we don’t need to sit. Sit anyway. Visiting our sorrow, regrets or disappointment can hurt. Embrace it anyway. We cling, to...
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Do It Anyway - Mother Theresa
I found this on the site of David Brazier, a Pureland Buddhist teacher, who in turn found it on website of Japanese artist, Margareth Osju.
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