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A Lifetime Doing Nothing (Story 19 excerpt)
May 06, 2022 23:00 - 2.25 MB application/x-download-fileStory 19 from 'A Lifetime Doing Nothing' by Ian McCrorie . I am waiting for Thich Nhat Hanh to write a follow-up book, How to Listen, to address the proliferation of PMPs (personal music players). Many young people walk everywhere, earbudded to all the music ever created, oblivious to the sounds around them and within them. They drown out... narrated by Ian McCrorie 2022 3 minutes 59 seconds Listen to Streaming Audio Your browser does not s...
A Lifetime Doing Nothing (Story 18 excerpt)
April 29, 2022 23:00 - 2.04 MB application/x-download-fileStory 18 from 'A Lifetime Doing Nothing' by Ian McCrorie . Be here now. Just three words. Be here now. The oft-heard teaching is eminently simple but absolutely profound. Happiness can only be found in this moment, in the here and now. Living in the past will inevitably... narrated by Ian McCrorie 2022 3 minutes 33 seconds Listen to Streaming Audio Your browser does not support the audio element. Download Audio (2.1MB) Audio copyright, 20...
A Lifetime Doing Nothing (Story 17 excerpt)
April 22, 2022 23:00 - 1.99 MB application/x-download-fileStory 17 from 'A Lifetime Doing Nothing' by Ian McCrorie . This story is from Toni Packer, the late, much-venerated Zen teacher. A student asks a Zen master for some principles of the highest wisdom. The master replies, “Attention.” “Is that it?” asks the student. “Nothing to add?” The teacher says,... narrated by Ian McCrorie 2022 3 minutes 25 seconds Listen to Streaming Audio Your browser does not support the audio element. Download Audio (...
A Lifetime Doing Nothing (Story 16 excerpt)
April 15, 2022 23:00 - 2.81 MB application/x-download-fileStory 16 from 'A Lifetime Doing Nothing' by Ian McCrorie . Watch a baby for a while and you can't help but see how hard they are working. They are looking out on the world, trying to make sense of it all. They focus on this and then they focus on that. They react, sometimes with tears, ofttimes with a smile, indications that they have assessed the situation and found it wanting or fulfilling. When you place them on... narrated by Ian McCrorie 2022 ...
A Lifetime Doing Nothing (Story 15 excerpt)
April 08, 2022 23:00 - 2.03 MB application/x-download-fileStory 15 from 'A Lifetime Doing Nothing' by Ian McCrorie . The Pirahã natives live in the upper Amazon rainforest. Daniel Everett is one of only three linguists who can speak their language. He lived with them for many years and discovered through their language that they appear to be the only people on Earth who live in the here and now. They are fully... narrated by Ian McCrorie 2022 3 minutes 31 seconds Listen to Streaming Audio Your bro...
A Lifetime Doing Nothing (Story 14 excerpt)
April 01, 2022 23:00 - 2.42 MB application/x-download-fileStory 14 from 'A Lifetime Doing Nothing' by Ian McCrorie . Many of us are busy with the business of being busy, and Knausgaard was no exception. His writing explores the busyness of his mind, especially with how he deals with his family. He explores the conditioned mind with objective honesty. Being busy can often be an affirmation of our status... narrated by Ian McCrorie 2022 3 minutes 38 seconds Listen to Streaming Audio Your browser doe...
A Lifetime Doing Nothing (Story 13 excerpt)
March 25, 2022 23:00 - 1.87 MB application/x-download-fileStory 13 from 'A Lifetime Doing Nothing' by Ian McCrorie . Norwegian author Karl Ove Knausgaard wrote in "My Struggle" of a time when he was very sick. He couldn't move, and he lay on the sofa the whole day feeling miserable. His inability to move meant... narrated by Ian McCrorie 2022 3 minutes 49 seconds Listen to Streaming Audio Your browser does not support the audio element. Download Audio (2MB) Audio copyright, 2021 Pariyatti 'A Li...
Debra Barrett - Realizing Change Video Series
March 22, 2022 21:44 - 23 MB application/x-download-fileThis series is inspired by a book we first published over a decade ago, entitled Realizing Change: Vipassana Meditation in Action (by Ian Hetherington). In Realizing Change we are given access to voices from around the world, who share in-depth accounts of their apprehensions before undertaking a ten-day course in Vipassana, their experiences during the course, and the subtle, yet profound, experience of change activated by the practice of Vipassana. People from every walk of life, country, ...
A Lifetime Doing Nothing (Story 12 excerpt)
March 18, 2022 23:00 - 2.75 MB application/x-download-fileStory 12 from 'A Lifetime Doing Nothing' by Ian McCrorie . A man walked into his doctor's office and told him he was not doing well. He was in pain all over. “Everywhere I touch, it hurts,” he said. The good doctor gave him a battery of tests,... narrated by Ian McCrorie 2022 5 minutes 44 seconds Listen to Streaming Audio Your browser does not support the audio element. Download Audio (2.9MB) Audio copyright, 2021 Pariyatti 'A Lifetime Doing N...
A Lifetime Doing Nothing (Story 11 excerpt)
March 12, 2022 00:00 - 1.43 MB application/x-download-fileStory 11 from 'A Lifetime Doing Nothing' by Ian McCrorie . If dukkha, “suffering” or “unsatisfactoriness,” is the first noble truth, wherein lies its cause? The Buddha discovered that the root of suffering lies in the human tendency to involve ourselves in... narrated by Ian McCrorie 2022 2 minutes 51 seconds Listen to Streaming Audio Your browser does not support the audio element. Download Audio (1.5MB) Audio copyright, 2021 Pariyatti ...
In the Spirit of the Buddha - an interview with Paul R. and Susan K. Fleischman
March 08, 2022 16:34 - 42.1 MB application/x-download-fileIn the Spirit of the Buddha an interview with Paul R. and Susan K. Fleischman. Vipasana teachers in the tradition of S.N. Goenka, Susan K. And Paul R. Fleischman have been walking on the path of Dhamma for many decades. Paul has published various titles relating to the teachings of the Buddha and Vipassana meditation. Paul's work often bridges his experience as a seeker and meditator and his professional background in science—psychology, biology, and medicine. The topic of this Pariyatti...
A Lifetime Doing Nothing (Story 10 excerpt)
March 05, 2022 00:00 - 1.53 MB application/x-download-fileStory 10 from 'A Lifetime Doing Nothing' by Ian McCrorie . The yin-yang symbol is a graphic illustration of the human condition. Light represents happiness, gain, good health, etc., and darkness represents unhappiness, loss, poor health, etc.... narrated by Ian McCrorie 2022 3 minutes 04 seconds Listen to Streaming Audio Your browser does not support the audio element. Download Audio (1.6MB) Audio copyright, 2021 Pariyatti 'A Lifet...
A Lifetime Doing Nothing (Story 9 excerpt)
February 26, 2022 00:00 - 2.28 MB application/x-download-fileStory 9 from 'A Lifetime Doing Nothing' by Ian McCrorie . Two and a half thousand years ago, the Buddha summed up his discovery as “mind matters most.” Buddha, meaning “the awakened one,” is an honorific for Siddhartha Gautama,... narrated by Ian McCrorie 2022 4 minutes 44 seconds Listen to Streaming Audio Your browser does not support the audio element. Download Audio (2.4MB) Audio copyright, 2021 Pariyatti 'A Lifetime Doing Nothing' as a boo...
A Lifetime Doing Nothing (Story 8 excerpt)
February 19, 2022 00:00 - 2.5 MB application/x-download-fileStory 8 from 'A Lifetime Doing Nothing' by Ian McCrorie . So that’s it. It is really that simple. Sit alone in a room quietly. Keeping the spine as straight as possible will help to keep lethargy at bay. At first it is normal to feel somewhat self-conscious,... narrated by Ian McCrorie 2022 5 minutes 12 seconds Listen to Streaming Audio Your browser does not support the audio element. Download Audio (2.6MB) Audio copyright, 2021 Pariyatti...
A Lifetime Doing Nothing (Story 7 excerpt)
February 12, 2022 00:00 - 1.69 MB application/x-download-fileStory 7 from 'A Lifetime Doing Nothing' by Ian McCrorie . If it is not already clear, it cannot be emphasized often enough that non-doing is not lethargy. Nor is it apathy, sloth, or laziness. It is not complacency or inactivity. It is not relaxation or spacing out. It is, however,... narrated by Ian McCrorie 2022 3 minutes 26 seconds Listen to Streaming Audio Your browser does not support the audio element. Download Audio (1.8MB) Audio c...
A Lifetime Doing Nothing (Story 6 excerpt)
February 05, 2022 00:00 - 1.84 MB application/x-download-fileStory 6 from 'A Lifetime Doing Nothing' by Ian McCrorie . My second epiphany took place after university, when I was teaching grade eight. I was on the front line, trying to hold the raging hormones of thirty-six students at bay long enough to stuff some important knowledge into their overly coiffed little heads.... narrated by Ian McCrorie 2022 3 minutes 45 seconds Listen to Streaming Audio Your browser does not support the audio element. Download Audio (1.9MB) Audio copyri...
A Lifetime Doing Nothing (Story 5 excerpt)
January 29, 2022 00:00 - 1.29 MB application/x-download-fileStory 5 from 'A Lifetime Doing Nothing' by Ian McCrorie . My first revelation occurred on a Friday evening just before my first year of university. I had the book list I needed for my courses, and a friend drove me to the uni bookstore. Books in hand,... narrated by Ian McCrorie 2022 2 minutes 33 seconds Listen to Streaming Audio Your browser does not support the audio element. Download Audio (1.4MB) Audio copyright, 2021 Pariyatti 'A Li...
A Lifetime Doing Nothing (Story 4 excerpt)
January 22, 2022 00:00 - 2.41 MB application/x-download-fileStory 4 from 'A Lifetime Doing Nothing' by Ian McCrorie . Because I had seldom, if ever, sat quietly in a room alone, the irony was that I thought my mind was akin to a well-oiled Bianchi racing bike. Of course, I was totally deluded. I had equated intelligence, literacy, strong opinions, and popularity with a beautiful mind—a Bianchi, if you will. In fact,... narrated by Ian McCrorie 2022 5 minutes 01 seconds Listen to Streaming Audio Your...
A Lifetime Doing Nothing (Story 3 excerpt)
January 15, 2022 00:00 - 1.87 MB application/x-download-fileStory 3 from 'A Lifetime Doing Nothing' by Ian McCrorie . Self-introspection is not the strongest attribute of Homo sapiens. Our forefathers survived primarily because they were men of action, fleeing or fighting as the situation demanded. And they hunted in groups, perhaps the only time they were quiet. Sound familiar?... narrated by Ian McCrorie 2022 3 minutes 50 seconds Listen to Streaming Audio Your browser does not support the audio el...
A Lifetime Doing Nothing (Story 2 excerpt)
January 08, 2022 00:00 - 1.53 MB application/x-download-fileStory 2 from 'A Lifetime Doing Nothing' by Ian McCrorie . Blaise Pascal (1623–1662), a French mathematician and writer, once declared that “All of humanity’s problems stem from man’s inability to sit quietly in a room alone.” This is the most graphic summation of the conundrum of the human condition... narrated by Ian McCrorie 2022 3 minutes 04 seconds Listen to Streaming Audio Your browser does not support the audio element. Downloa...
A Lifetime Doing Nothing (Story 1 excerpt)
December 31, 2021 15:30 - 1.44 MB application/x-download-fileStory 1 from 'A Lifetime Doing Nothing' by Ian McCrorie . I left my small hut in the tribal area of the Western Ghats of Maharashtra early one morning to go for a run through the countryside. As I came over a small rise in the road, I found myself staring at a herd of water buffalo.... narrated by Ian McCrorie 2022 2 minutes 16 seconds Listen to Streaming Audio Your browser does not support the audio element. Download Audio (1.5MB) Audio ...
Cultivating Inner Peace - an interview with Paul R. Fleischman
December 17, 2021 23:34 - 55.6 MB application/x-download-fileCultivating Inner Peace an interview with Paul R. Fleischman . Paul Fleischman, psychiatrist, author and long-time meditator, writes about the psychology, wisdom and poetry of those who have inspired him in his personal quest for harmony and happiness. The learnable qualities of peaceful living are brought into focus by examining the lives of diverse exemplars such as Mahatma Gandhi, Walt Whitman, Henry David Thoreau, the Buddha, John Muir, Scott and Helen Nearing, and Rabindranath Tagor...
Deepening Insight: An Interview with Bhikkhu Anālayo
December 17, 2021 21:18 - 40.9 MB application/x-download-fileA discussion with Bhikkhu Anālayo about his book "Deepening Insight: Teachings on vedanā in the Early Buddhist Discourses." Deepening Insight presents a selection of passages from the early Buddhist discourses that provide perspectives on the cultivation of liberating insight into vedanā, sensation, feeling, or feeling tone. For meditators, such passages can be of considerable help as a reference point for deepening insight. A metaphor that can offer considerable help when facing vedanās ...
The Equanimous Mind (2nd Edition)
December 10, 2021 23:29The Equanimous Mind (2nd Edition) by Manish Chopra . The Equanimous Mind (2nd Edition) chronicles the author's first ten-day Vipassana meditation camp experience at the end of 2010 and the life-changing impact it has had on his personal and professional life since that time. This new second edition comes at an important milestone in Manish s journey as ten years have passed since that first ten-day retreat. A new epilogue in this 10th anniversary edition has been expanded and enriched wit...
Interview with Manish Chopra, author of "The Equanimous Mind (2nd Edition)"
December 10, 2021 22:59 - 247 KB application/x-download-fileThe Equanimous Mind by Manish Chopra . The Equanimous Mind (2nd Edition) chronicles the author's first ten-day Vipassana meditation camp experience at the end of 2010 and the life-changing impact it has had on his personal and professional life since that time. This new second edition comes at an important milestone in Manish's journey as ten years have passed since that first ten-day retreat. A new epilogue in this 10th anniversary edition has been expanded and enriched with updates on ...
A Lifetime Doing Nothing: Tales, Teachings, and Testimonials
December 03, 2021 23:24 - 51.7 MB application/x-download-fileA Lifetime Doing Nothing by Ian McCrorie . "In my experience, all our problems do indeed stem from this hyperactive and delusional thinking we have acquired over time. There is a way to eradicate the light-speed, blind reactions and the habitual confusion. The way is very simple. It boils down to just two words: do nothing. That s it. Do nothing. Sit quietly in a room alone and do nothing. Watch the monkey mind and do not try to fix it or eliminate it or drown it out or engage it. This i...
Vipassana Meditation and the Scientific Worldview (2nd Edition)
November 26, 2021 23:09 - 55.8 MB application/x-download-fileVipassana Meditation and the Scientific Worldview (2nd Edition) by Paul R. Fleischman . We have lived in an era during which the spirituality intrinsic to science has become obvious. The universe is not random. It contains patterns and paths. This is called the information-state of the universe, and it organizes the materials and energies that form our bodies and minds. We are each microcosms; downloaded into our small selves are a vast array of directives and limits, the laws of science,...
Five Mental Hindrances and Their Conquest
November 19, 2021 23:05 - 34.7 MB application/x-download-fileFive Mental Hindrances and Their Conquest by Nyanaponika Thera . This is the audiobook version of the Wheel Publications booklet Wheel Publication No. 26, The Five Mental Hindrances, compiled and translated by the venerable scholar and founder of the Buddhist Publication Society, Nyanaponika Thera. It is a compilation of selected texts from the Pali Canon and its commentaries on the five obstacles to progress on the spiritual path. Narrated by Parag Sampat 2015 1 hours 16 mi...
Vipassana Meditation Talk by Patrick Given-Wilson
November 03, 2021 16:59 - 19.9 MB application/x-download-fileVipassana Meditation Talk by Patrick Given-Wilson . This is an introductory talk about Vipassana meditation as taught by S. N. Goenka as presented online by Patrick Given-Wilson. This talk was hosted by the Stanton Library, North Council in October of 2021. Presented by Patrick Given-Wilson 2021 43 minutes Watch the video or download the audio. Download Audio (21 MB) video copyright, 2021 Stanton Library Find more information about Vipassana meditation visit www.dhamma...
Inspiration from Enlightened Nuns
August 16, 2021 17:30 - 114 MB application/x-download-fileInspiration from Enlightened Nuns by Susan Elbaum Jootla . In this booklet we will be exploring poems composed by the Arahat bhikkhunis or enlightened Buddhist nuns of old, looking at these poems as springs of inspiration for contemporary Buddhists. Most of the poems we will consider come from the Therigatha, a small section of the vast Pali Canon. From the poems of the enlightened nuns of the Buddha's time contemporary followers of the Noble Eightfold Path can receive a great deal of ins...
The Joy Hidden in Sorrow: Two Talks on Death and Dying
August 10, 2021 14:37 - 22.9 MB application/x-download-fileThe Joy Hidden in Sorrow by Ayyā Medhānandī . Excerpt from The Joy Hidden in Sorrow by Ayyā Medhānandī In our relationships with each other, with our families, we can begin to use wisdom as our refuge. That doesn’t mean that we don’t love, that we don’t grieve for our loved ones. It means that we’re not dependent on our perceptions of our mother and father, children or close friends. We’re not dependent on them being who we think they are, we no longer believe that our happiness depends o...
The Elimination of Anger
June 30, 2021 13:59 - 43.5 MB application/x-download-fileThe Elimination of Anger by Ven. K. Piyatissa Thera . This title contains two stories retold from Buddhist texts, The Reviler and The Anger-eating Demon. Narrated by Sophia Ojha 2017 31 minutes Listen to Streaming Audio Download Audio (46 MB) Audiobook copyright, 2017 Pariyatti 'The Elimination of Anger' can also be found in the Pariyatti Edition of Collected Bodhi Leaves Vol. 3 as well as at BPS as a free eBook download. View more books and audio resources available i...
The Development of the Will and Perfection of Energy
June 19, 2021 18:03 - 12.6 MB application/x-download-fileThe Development of the Will and Perfection of Energy by Wladyslaw Misiewicz and Shantideva . Excerpt from The Development of Will by Wladyslaw Misiewicz “No force in the human system can be properly used unless it is rightly directed. As the will is the only factor in man that has the power to direct or control, a thorough development of the will becomes absolutely necessary in order to have a clear understanding of its application under every circumstance.” From Perfection of Energy by ...
Buddhist Therapy
May 20, 2021 22:07 - 19.2 MB application/x-download-fileBuddhist Therapy by Ruth Walshe . "Is Buddhism closely related to psychology? To some extent, yes - but with one tremendous difference: While psychology helps you to understand yourself intellectually and, at best emotionally, Buddhism helps you to get beyond the intellect to the actual experience of life itself. That's why applied Buddhism goes so much deeper than any school of psychology can ever claim to do…" Narrated by Judy Swift 2018 42 minutes Listen to Streaming A...
An Exhortation and Self-image or Self-knowledge
April 30, 2021 17:07 - 27 MB application/x-download-fileAn Exhortation and Self-image or Self-knowledge Two Dhamma Talks by Ayya Khema . Let go of all self-images, of all ideations, of all hopes and plans. Then you can dwell in this particular moment—and no one can take that away from you. It can’t disappear, or be broken, or get lost. It just is. Security lies in the simple fact that in essence one has nothing and one is nothing. Narrated by Kalvin Kochhar 2020 40 minutes Listen to Streaming Audio Dow...
The Buddha—A Unique Teacher
March 17, 2021 13:14 - 50.2 MB application/x-download-fileThe Buddha—A Unique Teacher from Bodhi Leaf No. 36 by Francis Story History has produced many great figures, but none in this present cycle or time as impressive and memorable as that of Siddhattha Gotama, the Sakyan prince who became the world’s greatest spiritual guide. He was unique as a personality, and unique as a teacher. There have been countless Enlightened Ones before him and there will be more, as long as saṃsāra endures, but he is the only one of whom we have actual histo...
Why the Buddha Did Not Preach to a Hungry Man
March 10, 2021 03:13 - 23.2 MB application/x-download-fileWhy the Buddha Did Not Preach to a Hungry Man from Bodhi Leaf No. 121 by Louis van Loon What makes one man poor and another rich is not only a question of material possessions, how much they consume or the extent to which they are able to satisfy their cravings. This is determined largely by the manner in which they subjectively experience and psychologically evaluate a feeling of well-being in the context of the environment in which they happen to be situated. Indeed, “poverty” and...
We Are Everywhere (from Cultivating Inner Peace)
February 15, 2021 20:33 - 7.61 MB application/x-download-fileChapter 28 - We Are Everywhere from Cultivating Inner Peace by Paul R. Fleischman, M.D. Solutions to the new, crowded, interconnected era will not be just technological but spiritual. They will embrace sorrow for what each individual life is not, for without conscious awareness of the sorrow that is intrinsic to individuality, there will be no possible solution to group self aggrandizing aggression and the plagues of externalizing blame that have characterized organized religions an...
A Great Cry On Earth (from Cultivating Inner Peace)
February 11, 2021 14:26 - 14 MB application/x-download-fileChapter 27 - A Great Cry On Earth from Cultivating Inner Peace by Paul R. Fleischman, M.D. The practices from which inner peace derives, and which it in turn furthers, transcend material reality without rejecting it. To find inner peace, a person must be turned completely around. A challenge is set before us by the radical perception of “the flow of nutriment,” which means: Is there anything more to your life than the tumbling on of animal instinct—“the male collects food, and the f...
Our Inner Peace Is Earth's Frontier (from Cultivating Inner Peace)
February 03, 2021 19:40 - 15.8 MB application/x-download-fileChapter 26 - Our Inner Peace Is Earth's Frontier from Cultivating Inner Peace by Paul R. Fleischman, M.D. Cultivating Inner Peace is the most important action we can take to help planet Earth, on whose back we all ride, whose breath we breathe, whose plants provide our food, and whose properly intense sunlight is the source of energy for the molecules that form our body. Rather than solipsistic disinterest, the cultivation of inner peace activates our fundamental human calling: to o...
A Personal Experience of Vipassana Meditation (from Cultivating Inner Peace)
January 27, 2021 15:49 - 18.5 MB application/x-download-fileChapter 25 - A Personal Experience of Vipassana Meditation from Cultivating Inner Peace by Paul R. Fleischman, M.D. I took my first Vipassana meditation course in 1974 under the guidance of Mr. Goenka... In those days, Vipassana wasn’t being taught in the West. I made several trips to India and returned with the technique half-learned. I didn’t know where it fit into my life, but I saw it as something honest, free, and useful. I could own it myself, practice it without being swallow...
Peace Is Purity (from Cultivating Inner Peace)
January 19, 2021 18:21 - 24.3 MB application/x-download-fileChapter 24 - Peace Is Purity from Cultivating Inner Peace by Paul R. Fleischman, M.D. The nucleus of inner peace is purity of heart and mind. When you say, “I want inner peace,” you mean that you want to be able to live with what’s inside you, to be at ease in the depths of yourself; and that integrated positivity, without cracks or seams, is called “purity.” We have no difficulty in becoming aware of our mind. It floods us: it spawns epics and anecdotes and vacation plans. W...
Peace Is Participation (from Cultivating Inner Peace)
January 12, 2021 14:19 - 11.5 MB application/x-download-fileChapter 23 - Peace Is Participation from Cultivating Inner Peace by Paul R. Fleischman, M.D. Among those who passed through the cloud chamber of existence and left a track of inner peace to hover behind them and to guide those who follow, none left a more exquisite trace or lived a more complete life than Rabindranath Tagore. His life is exemplary of a life of inner peace and participation. He mastered and manifested the intricate rhythm of solitude alternating with service in an at...
Peace Is An Ambiance: Rabindranath Tagore (from Cultivating Inner Peace)
January 06, 2021 14:56 - 32.4 MB application/x-download-fileChapter 22 - Peace Is An Ambiance: Rabindranath Tagore from Cultivating Inner Peace by Paul R. Fleischman, M.D. There is a charmed quality to Rabindranath Tagore’s biography that enables us to inhale the fragrance of a life of peace-in- action. Not only the facts, but his atmosphere inspires peace, like the smell of transpiring grass on a summer evening. His history reveals how insight and action are complemented by relationship to an ambiance, producing an infectious feeling tone o...
Individual Identity Within Egolessness (from Cultivating Inner Peace)
December 29, 2020 18:49 - 18.1 MB application/x-download-fileChapter 21 - Individual Identity Within Egolessness from Cultivating Inner Peace by Paul R. Fleischman, M.D. Peaceful living derives from balance in a world of torque. The world shakes, but our gyroscope must remain upright. The student of peace envelops deep habits about how to live intentionally, selectively, naturally, knowledgeably, and harmoniously amidst losses, defeats, and gradual decline. Like an acrobat with eyes fixed on the horizon, peace focuses beyond self. Peaceful pe...
Peace Is Humility or Egolessness (from Cultivating Inner Peace)
December 21, 2020 20:51 - 13.9 MB application/x-download-fileChapter 20 - Peace Is Humility or Egolessness from Cultivating Inner Peace by Paul R. Fleischman, M.D. Generally, we experience the details of our week as earth-shattering. To live a life of inner peace, we need to cultivate detachment from those gripping ups and downs on which our well-being appears to depend, because it is the delusion of importance that blinds us to the real panorama. The humility that will help you cultivate inner peace is a continuous falling back down to earth, like...
The Gateway to Sympathetic Joy (from Cultivating Inner Peace)
December 14, 2020 18:34 - 7.32 MB application/x-download-fileChapter 19 - The Gateway to Sympathetic Joy from Cultivating Inner Peace by Paul R. Fleischman, M.D. A person who has learned the skill of sorrow paradoxically will be lightened by kinship and communion with all beings, and will spontaneously speak in phrases of emphathy and saliency. Words and sorrow are a couple with a long, strong marriage. Regardless of what we believe the meaning of our life to be, we feel peaceful when our sense of concern is directed outside ourselves toward...
Sorrow Is a Skill (from Cultivating Inner Peace)
December 02, 2020 13:48 - 8.79 MB application/x-download-fileChapter 18 - Sorrow Is a Skill from Cultivating Inner Peace by Paul R. Fleischman, M.D. Some people can successfully avoid the depths of life, but if you try to deepen your feelings of peace, you’ll unearth within yourself and the world profound unpleasantness. We saw this to be true in the lives of ecstatic visionaries like Walt Whitman, and in the lives of great nature lovers like Thoreau and Muir. Logically, the world is unknowable to us, who are brief visitors. In spite of that,...
Peace Is Facing Sorrow (from Cultivating Inner Peace)
November 23, 2020 19:28 - 15.2 MB application/x-download-fileChapter 17 - Peace Is Facing Sorrow from Cultivating Inner Peace by Paul R. Fleischman, M.D. If a reader were using this book as a practical guide to cultivating inner peace, he or she might now be thinking: I know that mere situational adjustments won’t essentially improve my life, which gains its trajectory only from my own actions and feelings. I want to sail toward peace, easy in the currents of myself, harmoniously related to people and circumstances, and to achieve this I have...
Celebrating with Everyone (from Cultivating Inner Peace)
November 16, 2020 19:23 - 3.66 MB application/x-download-fileChapter 16 - Celebrating with Everyone from Cultivating Inner Peace by Paul R. Fleischman, M.D. A peaceful heart celebrates with everyone. “Nature” is a construct, the imposition of a category over the living, vibrating, collections of atoms and molecules, shaped into hearts and minds that are swaying, flying, and yodeling around us today. When even the concept of “nature” is removed, rivers and bears are seen to be as consanguineous as spouses and store clerks. The process of impe...