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A Lifetime Doing Nothing (Story 83 excerpt)
Pariyatti - February 22, 2023 22:10 - application/x-download-file ★★★★★ - 44 ratingsStory 83 from 'A Lifetime Doing Nothing' by Ian McCrorie . Friendship. Where would we be without our friends? This is true for the homeless alcoholic who followed his friends’ lead, quit school, took to the road, lived high and free until he lost his health, his integrity, an...
A Lifetime Doing Nothing (Story 82 excerpt)
Pariyatti - February 18, 2023 22:08 - application/x-download-file ★★★★★ - 44 ratingsStory 82 from 'A Lifetime Doing Nothing' by Ian McCrorie . An old proverb says that “as a man thinketh, so he is.” I’d like to alter this somewhat and proclaim that “as a man is conditioned, so he is.” Oft-repeated behaviors, beliefs, views, and thought patterns define who we...
A Lifetime Doing Nothing (Story 81 excerpt)
Pariyatti - February 15, 2023 22:06 - application/x-download-file ★★★★★ - 44 ratingsStory 81 from 'A Lifetime Doing Nothing' by Ian McCrorie . One time I chose to simply live in a small guesthouse on Gnat Agi Pagoda Road in Bahan Township in Burma. I would forego all travel. Across from my guesthouse was a tea shop from which I could watch all of Burma, past...
A Lifetime Doing Nothing (Story 80 excerpt)
Pariyatti - February 11, 2023 20:06 - application/x-download-file ★★★★★ - 44 ratingsStory 80 from 'A Lifetime Doing Nothing' by Ian McCrorie . Matthew 21:22 promises us, “Whatsoever ye shall ask in prayer, ye shall receive.” Now I grant you that few people read the Bible these days, perhaps because they took Matthew too literally. But it doesn't matter, beca...
A Lifetime Doing Nothing (Story 79 excerpt)
Pariyatti - February 08, 2023 20:04 - application/x-download-file ★★★★★ - 44 ratingsStory 79 from 'A Lifetime Doing Nothing' by Ian McCrorie . Our cottage is on a small lake on the Canadian Shield. Our shoreline is very rocky, with large boulders deposited there as the glaciers retreated 10,000 years ago. Amazingly this shoreline provides sufficient sustenan...
A Lifetime Doing Nothing (Story 78 excerpt)
Pariyatti - February 04, 2023 20:02 - application/x-download-file ★★★★★ - 44 ratingsStory 78 from 'A Lifetime Doing Nothing' by Ian McCrorie . One summer I drove a truck for an oil company. Two of us installed the oil tanks for furnaces in the basement of houses. It was dirty work. The basements were often unheated. They were seldom clean. One day, it was pa...
A Lifetime Doing Nothing (Story 77 excerpt)
Pariyatti - February 01, 2023 20:01 - application/x-download-file ★★★★★ - 44 ratingsStory 77 from 'A Lifetime Doing Nothing' by Ian McCrorie . Doing non-doing deconditions the mind so that a happy life, defined by the Stoics as true, virtuous, and natural, arises like a phoenix from the ashes of the conditioned mind. Since the real shift is within you, your ...
A Lifetime Doing Nothing (Story 76 excerpt)
Pariyatti - January 28, 2023 19:59 - application/x-download-file ★★★★★ - 44 ratingsStory 76 from 'A Lifetime Doing Nothing' by Ian McCrorie . In Korea it is considered rude to speak immediately after someone else has just spoken. Korean culture demands a slight pause to indicate the listeners have fully digested and appreciated the input. It gives them paus...
A Lifetime Doing Nothing (Story 75 excerpt)
Pariyatti - January 25, 2023 19:58 - application/x-download-file ★★★★★ - 44 ratingsStory 75 from 'A Lifetime Doing Nothing' by Ian McCrorie . Years ago, when I would walk around my house late at night after everyone else was asleep, it felt like I had always lived there. I liked that it felt that way. As my oldest son said when he was three, “It feels as pe...
A Lifetime Doing Nothing (Story 74 excerpt)
Pariyatti - January 21, 2023 19:56 - application/x-download-file ★★★★★ - 44 ratingsStory 74 from 'A Lifetime Doing Nothing' by Ian McCrorie . I loved the water buffalo I encountered in India. Despite their girth and their horns, they were very gentle creatures. They calmly abided all and sundry afflictions, heat, mosquitoes, and monsoon rains without so muc...
A Lifetime Doing Nothing (Story 73 excerpt)
Pariyatti - January 18, 2023 19:55 - application/x-download-file ★★★★★ - 44 ratingsStory 73 from 'A Lifetime Doing Nothing' by Ian McCrorie . I loved to go fishing with my father, because he was a terrible fisherman. He never caught anything. I was fine with this. I didn't like to put a worm on the hook. I didn't like taking the hook out of the fish's mouth...
A Lifetime Doing Nothing (Story 72 excerpt)
Pariyatti - January 14, 2023 19:50 - application/x-download-file ★★★★★ - 44 ratingsStory 72 from 'A Lifetime Doing Nothing' by Ian McCrorie . I think there is a place in our lives for tradition and even ritual. They keep our lives simple and understandable. In our family we have pancakes every Sunday and tea every evening. We go for walks together. We spend...
A Lifetime Doing Nothing (Story 71 excerpt)
Pariyatti - January 11, 2023 19:49 - application/x-download-file ★★★★★ - 44 ratingsStory 71 from 'A Lifetime Doing Nothing' by Ian McCrorie . The summer after high school, Tony, his younger brother Chris, and I set out in an old Vauxhall held together with spit and bailing wire for points west on the Trans-Canada Highway. We camped the entire way and cooked...
A Lifetime Doing Nothing (Story 70 excerpt)
Pariyatti - January 07, 2023 23:42 - application/x-download-file ★★★★★ - 44 ratingsStory 70 from 'A Lifetime Doing Nothing' by Ian McCrorie . Bhante Rahula and I would meditate outside on some very flat but hard boulders because that summer was particularly hot. On this particular day, I crossed my legs and straightened my spine as usual. I closed my eyes, ...
How to Find More Psychological Stability in an Unstable Time: The Role of Meditation
Pariyatti - January 06, 2023 17:16 - application/x-download-file ★★★★★ - 44 ratings"How to Find More Psychological Stability in an Unstable Time: The Role of Meditation" is an online Zoom talk by Paul R. Fleischman given on November 10th, 2022, co-sponsored by Connecticut Vipassana, Being Well at Yale, Good Life Center, MCDB DEI Committee, New Haven Library, Hindu Life at Yale...
A Lifetime Doing Nothing (Story 69 excerpt)
Pariyatti - January 04, 2023 23:40 - application/x-download-file ★★★★★ - 44 ratingsStory 69 from 'A Lifetime Doing Nothing' by Ian McCrorie . The more I investigate and dissect what I focus my attention on with clear comprehension, the more apparent becomes the changing nature of the mind and body. I don’t have to chase away any uncomfortable feelings or pa...
A Lifetime Doing Nothing (Story 68 excerpt)
Pariyatti - December 31, 2022 23:37 - application/x-download-file ★★★★★ - 44 ratingsStory 68 from 'A Lifetime Doing Nothing' by Ian McCrorie . On my way to school one bitterly cold winter's day, I passed a house in the early stages of being built. The workers were framing the roof. The wind was howling, the snow was blowing, and they kept at it because that ...
Pariyatti Presents... Maintaining Your Meditation Practice at Home: A Panel Discussiion
Pariyatti - December 30, 2022 17:05 - application/x-download-file ★★★★★ - 44 ratingsPariyatti Presents...a panel discussion about "Maintaining Your Meditation Practice at Home: Helpful Supports and Challenges" recorded on November 13, 2022. The panel consists of meditators in the tradition of Sayagyi U Ba Khin as taught by S.N. Goenka moderated by Paul R. Fleischman. The paneli...
A Lifetime Doing Nothing (Story 67 excerpt)
Pariyatti - December 28, 2022 23:35 - application/x-download-file ★★★★★ - 44 ratingsStory 67 from 'A Lifetime Doing Nothing' by Ian McCrorie . I was too thin to have good quality clothes fit me well. When I wore a suit, my head looked too small. When I turned my head while wearing a collar and tie, neither collar nor tie moved. Like a compass, my tie always ...
A Lifetime Doing Nothing (Story 66 excerpt)
Pariyatti - December 24, 2022 23:33 - application/x-download-file ★★★★★ - 44 ratingsStory 66 from 'A Lifetime Doing Nothing' by Ian McCrorie . To be a Buddhist is to be a Stoic and to be a Stoic is to be a Buddhist. Neither is a religion. Mere belief in their precepts holds no purchase. Reciting them every morning proves futile. Both speak of universal truth...
Pariyatti Presents... An Interview with Bill Crecelius, author of <em>A Meditator's Handbook</em>
Pariyatti - December 23, 2022 16:53 - application/x-download-file ★★★★★ - 44 ratingsThis is a Pariyatti Presents... interview with Bill Crecelius, the author of A Meditator's Handbook, Vipassana teacher and practiioner of Vipassana meditation as taught by S.N. Goenka in the tradition of Sayagyi U Ba Khin. The interview is followed by a 30-minute Q&A session, where he answers se...
A Lifetime Doing Nothing (Story 65 excerpt)
Pariyatti - December 21, 2022 23:31 - application/x-download-file ★★★★★ - 44 ratingsStory 65 from 'A Lifetime Doing Nothing' by Ian McCrorie . From my small hut atop a hill in Maharashtra, I could watch the farmers on the plains below. Late afternoon was my favorite time of day. The cow dust hour, it was called, and for good reason. The cows kicked up reddis...
A Lifetime Doing Nothing (Story 64 excerpt)
Pariyatti - December 17, 2022 23:29 - application/x-download-file ★★★★★ - 44 ratingsStory 64 from 'A Lifetime Doing Nothing' by Ian McCrorie . When someone says hello to me in Korean, I invariably reply “kamsahamnida.” My response is immediate and trips naturally off my tongue. Unfortunately “kamsahamnida” does not mean “hello.” It means, “thank you.” But I ...
Pariyatti Presents... An interview with Ven. Bhikkhu Bodhi
Pariyatti - December 16, 2022 15:37 - application/x-download-file ★★★★★ - 44 ratingsThis is a Pariyatti Presents... interview with the Ven. Bhikkhu Bodhi on September 18, 2022. Ven. Bodhi discusses topics such as how he became a monk, how he started his Pāli translation work, the challenges encountered, social engagement as a monk (while running the charity Buddhist Global Reli...
A Lifetime Doing Nothing (Story 63 excerpt)
Pariyatti - December 14, 2022 23:28 - application/x-download-file ★★★★★ - 44 ratingsStory 63 from 'A Lifetime Doing Nothing' by Ian McCrorie . I like to bake bread. Actually, the bread bakes itself; I simply facilitate the process. I add the flour to the yeast and water. I then knead the mixture, but even in this most tactile of experiences I am more an enga...
A Lifetime Doing Nothing (Story 62 excerpt)
Pariyatti - December 10, 2022 23:21 - application/x-download-file ★★★★★ - 44 ratingsStory 62 from 'A Lifetime Doing Nothing' by Ian McCrorie . Because we aren't trying to get better or happier or stronger or wealthier, our life advice no longer needs to come from style gurus and lifestyle coaches. (What is a lifestyle anyway? And why does it need coaching?) ...
Exploring the Path with Klaus Nothnagel - Interview July 17, 2022
Pariyatti - December 10, 2022 00:42 - application/x-download-file ★★★★★ - 44 ratingsThis is an interview with Klaus Nothnagel, Pāli teacher, author, and creator of the online Pāli courses "Exploring the Path" and "Buddhasahassanamavali." Klaus Nothnagel interviewed by Marta Van Patten 2022 1 hour 32 minutes Watch the video or download the audio. Download Audio (44MB) ...
A Lifetime Doing Nothing (Story 61 excerpt)
Pariyatti - December 07, 2022 23:17 - application/x-download-file ★★★★★ - 44 ratingsStory 61 from 'A Lifetime Doing Nothing' by Ian McCrorie . When I was young, we were a family of four living in a small apartment. At the time, especially as a teenager, I bemoaned my lot in life and wished I lived in a far grander home like a few of my friends. My ...
A Lifetime Doing Nothing (Story 60 excerpt)
Pariyatti - December 03, 2022 16:45 - application/x-download-file ★★★★★ - 44 ratingsStory 60 from 'A Lifetime Doing Nothing' by Ian McCrorie . As one proceeds on the non-doing path, the simpler life becomes. The simplicity refers to a lessening of inner confusion, not necessarily to fewer possessions. A letting go or a discarding happens naturally to all the...
Vipassana’s Unique Focus and Features: An Introductory Talk by Paul R. Fleischman (July 17, 2022)
Pariyatti - December 03, 2022 00:35 - application/x-download-file ★★★★★ - 44 ratingsThis was an online talk given by Paul R. Fleischman to the Denver Insight Meditation Group on July 17, 2022. It is intended for an audience that, while experienced in practicing meditation or well-informed on the subject, still seeks to understand the unique features of Vipassana meditation as t...
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