Perhaps you glimpsed at that in a piece of art. Art takes the materiality of sensory experience, it refines, reshuffles, restructures,...

It is fairly common to get into a certain practice by imitation. Something becomes the hype of the moment and one wants to try it out. Or...

The first time I was born out of fear and ignorance. Seeing this folly, following the path of the Silent Sage, I turned around, seeking...

'Contemplative practices' is an umbrella term that can be used to refer to a number of various methods, generally aimed at inducing some...

In a chess game, the first moves are usually quite important. Players aim at taking some control of the center of the board and allow...

How should I practice? This is an important question, and its answer is made somehow fuzzy by the multitude of different methods,...

Force develops against resistance. Growth demands constraints. When constraints work systematically and methodically, they create a...

In the beginning of the Bhagavad Gītā (2.50) we encounter the following short definition: yogaḥ karmasu kuśalam, which might be...

There is a condition in which life flows by itself. It does not matter what exactly is experienced, but whatever happens seems to unfold...

We might encounter teachings, practices, and other aspects of contemplative traditions in a pretty random way: a Buddha Head looking out...

Whatever feeling is felt (pleasant, unpleasant or neutral), do not indulge in craving for the pleasant, or in aversion for the...

In the Udana 3.5 there is this short stanza: “Sati kāyagatā upaṭṭhitā, Chasu phassāyatanesu saṁvuto; Satataṁ bhikkhu samāhito, Jaññā...

Formal meditative practice is just a piece (important, but just a piece) in the broader picture presented in the discourses. And how to...

Ordinarily, attention tends to be absorbed in this or that. Or rather, it tries to be absorbed, it seeks absorption, it craves for it....

Meditation is a training in mental disobedience, based on four main points: (1) Keep the context in mind. Don't focus on things, don't...

The discourses of the Buddha are fond of emphasising attitudes of dispassion, weariness, absence of desire and craving, equanimity,...

In They Live (1988, directed by John Carpenter), the world is ruled by an invisible alien elite. Everything looks normal and fine, but it...

A common worry that arises in the beginning of practice is how to best integrate it within one's life and circumstances. There are...

Admittedly, death is one of the most scary topics for most people since people are around. In archeological records, fully modern human...

There are two switches: one needs to be turned off, the other needs to be turned on. The switch to turn off is thirst (which entails a...