Tag: Practice
6 Buddhist Mantras (Or Prayers) You Can Practice Today
Category: Buddhist Path | Recent Meditation Posts Buddhist mantra practice purifies our energy, keeps the mind steadily focused and opens our hearts. Access these benefits and others by incorporating one or more of the most well-known Buddhist mantras into your daily meditation routine. A Guide To Buddhist Mantras Mantra is a Sanskrit word that can…
Aspiration Bodhicitta (Practice of Developing Good Heart)
Category: Buddhist Path | Love & Compassion Meditation | Recent Meditation Posts How positive intention turns every situation into practice Aspiration bodhicitta is the practice of using every situation to cultivate positive intent. The important Buddhist term bodhicitta combines two Sanskrit syllables: bodhi, awakening, and citta (pronounced cheeta), heart-mind. While citta is often translated as…
Bodhicitta Practice: the Ultimate Expression of Compassion
Category: Buddhist Path | Love & Compassion Meditation | Recent Meditation Posts The Relation Between Compassion and Bodhicitta Compassion and bodhicitta are related, but there is a difference between the two. Understanding how bodhicitta evolves from compassion can help us encourage the process. Compassion is a response to suffering. For compassion to take place, three…
Forgiveness as a practice of compassion
One of the emotional drivers of cruel and unkind behavior is resentment. Resentment is when we hold onto past hurt, locking ourselves into a pattern of blame. Unable to let go of the past we keep bringing up a memory of someone hurting us, betraying us, or failing to protect us. Every time we do…
How to Connect your Practice and your Life-with Walking
Walking is a fundamental theme in my life. Each step beats like a metronome, both setting my pace and responding to the pace of my life. Step. Step. Breath. Breath. My love of walking started when I was 22. I traveled to Nepal and walked the Annipurna Circuit, a trek which took about 3 weeks.…
Helping Students Practice Mindfulness with Gabriel Baldwin
OM084 – Helping Students Practice Mindfulness in the Classroom with Gabriel BaldwinMorgan Dix share BIO: Gabriel Baldwin began learning mindfulness as a fifteen year old at a mindfulness retreat for teenagers at the Insight Meditation Society (IMS). As a depressed and bullied teen, learning mindfulness was invaluable to overcoming these challenges. As a staff person…
Exploring the Practice of Radical Acceptance with Morgan Dix
OM088 – Exploring the Practice of Radical Acceptance with Morgan DixMorgan Dix share In this week’s One Mind Podcast I review the book Radical Acceptance, written by buddhist teacher and clinical psychotherapist, Tara Brach. Believing that something is wrong with us is a deep and tenacious suffering,” says Tara Brach at the start of this…