Posts

• Category: blogs (continued)
  • Category: on practice (continued)
    • Stepping into timelessness (8)
    • Steve Jobs on death (11)
    • STOP and be mindful (8)
    • Stop samsara, I want to get off! (10)
    • Ten most popular posts on Wildmind this year
    • Ten tips for priming an effortless meditation (2)
    • Ten tips for setting up a meditation practice
    • The "Worldly Winds" (video)
    • The art of ditching old friends, and of finding new ones (17)
    • The art of finding abundance in frugal times
    • The art of friendship (9)
    • The art of self-forgiveness (7)
    • The benefits of "uni-tasking"
    • The best mindfulness apps for iPhone/iPad (4)
    • The body's call to return (3)
    • The Buddha and Occupy Wall Street (15)
    • The Buddha as warrior (21)
    • The Buddha's View on Prosperity (2)
    • The Buddha: "If one should conquer thousands in battle, and if another should conquer only himself, his indeed is the greatest victory." (4)
    • The Centrality of Impermanence (10)
    • The Closing Circle
    • The Dollhouse and the Dharma
    • The first noble truth (6)
    • The four foundations of mindfulness as a dynamic process (19)
    • The happiest man in the world
    • The healing power of visualization (13)
    • The joys of Zen Coffee (3)
    • The ocean of interrelatedness, by Kulananda (Michael Chaskalson) (1)
    • The paradox of having goals in the moment (9)
    • The path of nonviolence: six principles of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. (7)
    • The play of causes and conditions (1)
    • The power (and pitfalls) of criticism (2)
    • The power of appreciation (6)
    • The purity of no-self
    • The science of lovingkindness
    • The Second Noble Truth (3)
    • The technology of happiness
    • The top ten myths about meditation (9)
    • The truth of not suffering: The Buddha's teachings on happiness (6)
    • The wisdom of surrender (1)
    • There is a crack in everything / That's how the light gets in
    • Third Eye: Kellee Maize (1)
    • This precious human birth (4)
    • Three approaches to mindful attention, on and off the cushion (5)
    • Three Ways to Cultivate Patience in 2012
    • Tibetan exile mani stones
    • Tips for busy people for a daily meditation practice (1)
    • Tips for successfully teaching meditation to children (1)
    • Top 10 Buddhist teachers living in America (3)
    • Top 10 celebrity Buddhists (69)
    • Transforming hurt and anger through self-compassion (13)
    • Travelling into the breath
    • True non-attachment and the freedom to choose
    • True wealth...
    • Try a little tenderness (7)
    • Unweaving pain's tapestry (7)
    • US Congressman Tim Ryan discusses the power of mindfulness
    • Using mindfulness to reduce the pressure (6)
    • Using thought to still thought (2)
    • Vajradaka: A balancing act (1)
    • Vajradaka: A fine balance
    • Vajrapani: Breaking free (4)
    • Waking up from the hindrance of sloth and torpor
    • Waking up in sobriety, by Kobai Scott Whitney (6)
    • Waking up in the midst of loss (9)
    • Waking up into the moment (1)
    • Waking up to the truth
    • Want to get enlightened? Here are some tips. (1)
    • What makes someone a Buddhist? (6)
    • What Rikers Island taught me about meditation (4)
    • What you're made of (Tricycle article by Bodhipaksa)
    • When are you?
    • When meditation seems impossible (6)
    • When metta doesn't mean "love" (17)
    • When murderers meditate... (2)
    • When practice goes backwards (3)
    • When spiritual practice gets in the way of spiritual progress (4)
    • Which voice in your head do you trust? (2)
    • White magic (1)
    • Why I call myself a Buddhist (27)
    • Wild geese
    • Window onto meditation (2)
    • With no effort or practice whatsoever, Enlightenment is here
    • Work is a Mess (book extract)
  • Category: quote of the month
    • "All the elements of nature are interwoven and united with each other." Gospel of Mary Magdalene
    • "As a parent raises a child with deep love, care for water and rice as though they were your own children." Dogen (1)
    • "Peace is not merely a distant goal that we seek, but a means by which we arrive at that goal." Martin Luther King Jr. (3)
    • "To see what is in front of one's nose needs a constant struggle." George Orwell (5)
    • Albert Einstein: "A human being is part of a whole, called by us the 'Universe' —a part limited in time and space" (2)
    • Albert Einstein: "The leader is one who, out of the clutter, brings simplicity .. out of discord, harmony ... and out of difficulty, opportunity"
    • Aldous Huxley: "Uncontrolled, the hunger and thirst after God may become an obstacle..." (2)
    • Aldous Huxley: "We can only love what we know, and we can never know completely what we do not love. Love is a mode of knowledge..." (6)
    • Anaïs Nin: "And the day came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom" (27)
    • Anaïs Nin: "The personal life deeply lived..."
    • Anne Morrow Lindbergh: "If one is estranged from oneself, then one is estranged from others too. If one is out of touch with oneself, then one cannot touch others..." (10)
    • Antoine de Saint Exupéry: "No single event can awaken within us a stranger whose existence we had never suspected." (4)
    • “Thought is gazing onto the face of life, and reading what can be read.” (2)
    • “When another person makes you suffer, it is because he suffers deeply within himself, and his suffering is spilling over.” Thich Nhat Hanh (24)
    • Barbara Sher: "We are like violins. We can be used for doorstops, or we can make music." (4)