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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;
please share mindfully
Rules for a Long-Term Relationship with meditation:
Someone once asked the Vietnamese Buddhist monk Thich Nhat Hanh, how he keeps his practice alive: “ He smiled: “So you want to know my...
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Metta Bhavana - Loving-Kindness Practice
Metta or Maitri means loving-kindness, benevolence, friendliness goodwill and an active interest in others. The cultivation of...
6 min read
Who do we think we are? A big, fat, solid ME :)
If you've started meditating or finding out more about Mindfulness, one of the first things you might hear or read about is the teaching...
5 min read
Notes on Mindfulness of Body
Many people think of mindfulness meditation as being a sitting-only practice, with most of our physical life being unconscious. But Jon...
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What my mind throws up is not ME
Meditation helps us to achieve a peaceful mind, stable mind and equanimity. This is important because it is through our mind that we...
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Moving beyond the familiar
I read something a little while ago, and I really liked the perspective: "One of the most difficult things to remember about our...
2 min read
Karma yoga – what is it and why is it good for us?
Even though in Western society most people know yoga as taking a class of physical yoga postures, the complete practice of yoga is more...
3 min read
One moment at a time
Shunryu Suzuki was a Sōtō Zen monk and teacher who helped popularize Zen Buddhism in the United States, and is renowned for founding the...
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Pockets of Stillness - a discipline for busy lives
Pico Iyer – British essayist, now living in Japan - writes extensively on Stillness. Since many of us lead lives at a thousand miles an...
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Creating Space
By Phakchok Rinpoche These days we have so many things to think about: our health, our family, our work, our dharma practice. When we...
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We think we are who we THINK we are
Sometimes we get so caught up with what or who we think we are that we think that is us. From a Buddhist point of view, this is the root...
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Patience and Judgment ...
I was corresponding with someone earlier this week about how it feels to have people in our space who make statements with racist or...
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Awareness, what is it exactly?
You may – or may not – know about my fascination with words. I’m a word-nerd! ☺. I can easily read a dictionary for fun. And I often...
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Self-concept and happiness
In meditation we learn to see clearly the cause of our dissatisfaction and unhappiness. Dissatisfaction, we are taught, is just part of...
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Live Strong: Practicing the 5 Strengths
Around about the year 900AD, an Indian teacher named Atisha came up with a very detailed outline of how we can all practice mindfulness. ...
4 min read
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