Introduction to Mindfulness – ‘The Issue at Hand’
Our biggest influence as individuals is with our own touch points to both our external and internal worlds. Cultivating a meta-awareness of these points of contact is a cultivation of mindfulness.
Archive for September, 2015
Applications, Buddhism, Meditation
The 6 Sense Doors of Vipassana
In Buddhist philosophy, there are 6 sense doors – ways in which we allow information in. The 6 sense doors are the eyes, ears, taste, touch, body, and mind. A combination of factors are required to be at play for any stimulus to enter a sense door.
Buddhism, Culture, Mindfulness
The Dalai Lama on Tweeting – Applying Mindfulness to Social Media
By now, the story is a well-recited one in Buddhist, meditation and mindfulness communities in the West. At a 1990 conference in Dharamsala, Sharon Salzberg, the initiator of the now famous interaction with the Dalai Lama, asked the question, ‘What do you think about self-hatred?’.