Meditating with Sleep and Sleepiness
Have you found yourself nodding off during meditation? Dullness or sleepiness are inherent experiences – experience, acknowledge but not to get caught in. Habit formed in long time members…with awareness, […]
Entries by BE Staff
What Is Love?
A very warm welcome back to Enryu and Maria from an intense 10 Day Meditation Retreat at the Great Vow Buddhist Monastery. Thank you both for sharing highlights of your […]
Behind the simple instruction for meditation: Place the tongue at the back of the top teeth
Supriti shared knowledge from the Vedic/yogic teachings- The physiological-spiritual context for mudras (hand postures), bandhas (locks between various body parts) and contact points.Placing the tongue behind the back of the […]
John Marshall on Enabling Silence
“I have the power to enable silence.” — John Marshall, Lakota Tradition
The Gifts of Silence
We read the words of a Lakota Elder on the sensibilities of traditional First People: the gifts of SILENCE: We Indians know about silence.We aren’t afraid of it.In fact, to us […]
Buddha on Allowing the Soul to Speak
“Quiet the mind and the soul will speak.” — Buddha
American Lakota Elder on the Gifts of Silence
“You don’t convince anyone by arguing.People make their decisions in their heart.Talk doesn’t touch my heart.People should think of their words like seeds. They should plant them, then let them […]
How is LOVE experienced by the five senses in daily life?
The experience of love is really the understanding that you and i are are the same being, that your being and my being is the same being. The understanding that […]
Francis Lucille on the Experience of Love
“The experience of love is really the understanding that you and I are are the same being, that your being and my being is the same being. The understanding that […]
Establishing Receptive Attention
Establishing Receptive Attention (shared by Enryu from her many years of Classical Indian Dance Training) Establishing receptive attention in the Body-bring attention the hands, feet, and spine and trace the […]