Opening up to Synchronicity
Now that my school schedule has lightened up, I’ve started sitting with the local meditators once a week. The site is about an hour away, but well worth the journey! I’m not sure if it’s the presence...
View ArticleDhamma to the Rescue
Painful sensations of sickness can bring a really intense focus to my practice, save the day, and make me much more aware of my default state! I used to have a lot of digestive problems when I was...
View ArticleThe joys of meditation
Why do people come to a Vipassana course? In talking with people who come to our Center in the Southeast on registration day and Metta day, I find there are almost as many reasons as there are people....
View ArticleThe Excitement of “What if”
Feelings of romantic attraction can be very ungrounding. They evoke a novel kind of storm, and when I get quiet enough in meditation, beneath the pleasured agitation, I come to hear a bubbling...
View ArticleHow can Therapy and Dhamma Best Complement Each Other?
I’ve worked on myself in so many different ways; through art, dream work, various kinds of yoga, meditation; presently, vipassana meditation, but never have I gone to therapy. I’m now seriously...
View ArticleServing on a ten day course
I was able to arrive a day and half before the course began to help set up. I prefer landing in the almost ghost town like feel between courses, rather than the hustle and bustle of everyone arriving...
View ArticleWhat is Dharma?
‘Dhamma’ or ‘Dharma’ is a word that I have never full understood or questioned, I just accepted it as an aspirational state of being. But what does it mean? When I say “May all beings share my Dharma”...
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