2022 has begun. Readers may entertain thoughts about New Year’s Resolutions.
We embark upon a resolution, big or small, to bring about a change in our life, often centred around renunciation, reduction or giving up certain kinds of behaviour or patterns. …
I taught my first insight meditation retreat in Dharamsala in the foothills of the Himalayas in the autumn of 1974 with around 30 participants. I am not sure how many retreats I have given since then but at a rough guess around 750 – 1000 ranging from day long retreats to week-long residential retreats, plus longer ones. …
We can wake up in the morning and sleep walk through the first hour or more. Yawning, tired and irritable, a lifeless, zombie. we drift from one thing to another.
Why waste a chunk of your life in such a way? …
No evenings address aloneness,
No need in silky atmosphere,
Open curtains welcome the stars,
Aloneness shelters in stillness. …
