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General Interest Busy-ness is Laziness - Elephant Journal, September 2008 Dr. Reggie Ray compellingly asserts that reducing busy-ness actually results in accomplishing more. "The problem with being busy is that it is based on ignorance—not realizing that by keeping your mind occupied constantly you are actually not giving yourself a chance. We even put an activity in our life, called meditation, where you practice not being busy." This article is a transcription from a Meditating with the Body retreat.
And Sparks Will Fly - Elephant Magazine, Winter 2006 Reggie provides a historical perspective of his lively relationship with Chögyam Trungpa Rinpoche. The energy of this relationship continues throughout the many twist and turns of Reggie's path, manifesting in his work with his students.
Meditation Practice and Experience Blood, Bone, Space and Light - Shambhala Sun, March 2003 A modern presentation of the earliest and most universally practiced teachings on Buddhist meditation. As classically given in the Theravadan tradition, these foundations are mindfulness of body, feeling, mind and mental events.
To Touch Enlightenment with the Body - Shambhala Sun, January 2003 The body, it turns out, is an ally in meditation practice. Physical distress in sitting calls our mind away from its fantasies of spiritual attainment, and brings it back to the here and now.
The Floating Heads - Shambhala Sun, September 2002 Buddhist meditation as practiced in the West frequently suffers from a profound disembodiment. Often we meditate from the neck up, as floating heads, completely cut off from the life of our bodies and our physical existence in the world.
Kobun Chino's Trailer - Shambhala Sun, November 2002
Waiting. Waiting. For What? - Shambhala Sun, May 2002 Meditation discloses our truest life process, its incomparable awareness, energy and movement. In fact, sitting on the meditation cushion, we can be living far more fully and profoundly than at any other time.
The Buddhist View The Three Lineages - Buddhadharma, Winter 2005 Inspiration, innovation, institution— the different manifestations of lineage and how they maintain their awakened quality.
Three in One: A Buddhist Trinity - Shambhala Sun, Sept 2004 The Buddha is defined by three bodies of enlightenment, the so-called trikaya of classical Mahayana theory. They are the ground of existence and present in every moment of our experience.
How to Study the Dharma - Shambhala Sun, May 2004 An ever-deepening understanding unfolds naturally from intellectual study. This process is classically expressed in the teaching of the three prajnas, or kinds of knowledge.
Good Cause - Shambhala Sun, March 2004 Most Buddhist traditions see doctrinal and philosophical study on the one hand, and meditation on the other, as complementary.
Books that Burn - Shambhala Sun, January 2004 To what extent can the Buddha's discovery really be separated from the path of practice?
That Problematic Self - Shambhala Sun, November 2003 What makes one’s ‘self’ so problematic is its degree of isolation from our actual experience, its rigidity and dissonance with reality beyond itself.
Forum: Attachment to Sense Pleasures - Buddhadharma, Fall 2003 A panel discussion with Mel Weitsman, Miranda Shaw and Bhante Walpola Piyananda on the essence of the Buddhist approach to renunciation and sensuality.
Deconstructing the 'Self' - Shambhala Sun, September 2003 Our impression that we are or possess a “real” self—meaning an apparently substantial, continuous entity within—is thus a delusion, a false attribution superimposed on our discontinuous experience.
Why Me - Shambhala Sun, July 2003 If the "self" is ultimately fictitious, how and why does it come to be at all?
Who Me - Shambhala Sun, May 2003 Buddhism describes several kinds of ‘self’ and ‘not-self,’ each of which has its role to play in our spiritual life.
In a Word, Dharma - Shambhala Sun, May 2002 But what does the word "dharma" actually mean? This is a particularly fascinating terms because it includes and integrates several levels of experience, from our first moment on the path to the achievement of full realization.
Religion Without God - Shambhala Sun, July 2001 What does it mean to be a religion without a God? More broadly, what does it mean to live without an exterior savior of any kind?
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Suffering Friends, There is Suffering - Shambhala Sun, September 2001 In fact, in the Buddha's declaration, "Friends, there is suffering," we find encapsulated all of the doctrines, methods of transformation and fruitions of Buddhism, no matter the tradition and no matter the time or place.
What's the Use of Suffering - Shambhala Sun, November 2001 The biggest mistake we can make, according to the Buddha, is to discount or minimize our suffering. Why? Because it is the fiery gate through which we must pass to engage the spiritual path.
Hold the Grief of the World - Shambhala Sun, September 2001 A talk given 3 days after the September 11 tragedy, at Shambhala Mountain Center. "Our job as practitioners is to hold the grief of the world as well as its confusion and aggression. Our job is not to judge it, but to hold it within our awareness, within our hearts."
Impermanence The Red Coat and the Teaching of Impermanence - Shambhala Sun, July 2002 When impermanence is deeply experienced it can give rise to genuine love for others and a sense of sacredness in our human existence.
Karma Understanding Karma - Shambhala Sun, January 2002 Even the concept of the independent, autonomous "I" we so dearly cherish is nothing but the product of karmic forces.
The Practice of Karma - Shambhala Sun, March 2002 Knowing that everything we do produces results we will have to experience sooner or later directs us to pay full attention to all our actions.
Ritual On the Importance of Relating to Unseen Beings - Shambhala Sun, January 2001 According to Tibetan Buddhism, the universe is populated by a vast array of enlightened and unenlightened beings. Some of them we can see; most we cannot.
Tibetan Buddhism Playing With Fire: the Chakras in Tibetan Buddhism - Dharma Life, Summer 2005 Tibetan Buddhism contains many teachings about the subtle energies of the body that are focused on the chakras or energy centres. Discusses the dangers of meditating on the chakras.
The New World of Tibetan Buddhism - Shambhala Sun, January 2002 A roundtable discussion with Tim McNeill, Reginald Ray, Tenzin Palmo and Sangye Khandro. |
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