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A PAGE FOR MINDFUL LIVING by Nancy Bennett, Certified Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction (MBSR) teac

10/11/2025

This week we’ll continue ourinvestigation of metta or loving kindness - the first and the foundation of the sublime abidings, or states of minds. The other three are compassion, sympathetic joy, and equanimity and grow out of different conditions encountered by loving k

27/10/2025

We live in extraordinary times. The news recently has often been devastating bad, prompting feelings of shock, anger, grief, enough to take our breaths away. With these continual onslaughts, our first action needs to be the fresh intake of breath - breathing through it.

20/10/2025

The Buddha’s teaching on Mindfulness of Breathing is one of the most important teachings in Buddhism and the fruits are implicit in every breath awareness meditation you have ever heard and are ever likely to hear - in yoga studies, on meditation apps, in therapist’s offices. Mindfulness o

06/10/2025

As most of you know, I have been on a meditation retreat for a month. The retreat experience is relatively new and unfamiliar to most of Western society. But it was commonly referenced in the Buddha’s teaching and still widely practiced in Buddhist countries where it was and is a

25/08/2025

For the past several weeks, we have been exploring Mindfulness of Breathing, one of the fundamental meditation practices. Most meditators are familiar with mindfulness of breathing in some form. It is available and rewarding to beginning meditators and also presents a rich path f

11/08/2025

Last week we embarked on a journey into the wonderful teaching of Mindfulness of Breathing or in Pali Anapanasati as taught in the Anapansati Sutta (MN118). This practice, referred to variously as mindfulness of breathing, paying attention t

04/08/2025

It is August already - and hardly seems the time to start a new project. And yet the next logical teaching in the Buddha’s many teachings is the all important mindfulness of breathing - where it all began for many of us - with the simple in and out of the breath. The process of meditation

21/07/2025

This week’s email contains three lessons or reflections - the previous two weeks and this week. They seem a part of a sequence and may be valuable to reflect upon them as a group, each leading to the next. It began two weeks ago with the reflection on anger and hatred, emotions that can t

14/07/2025

Last week we spent some time reflecting on anger and hatred and how destructive these emotions are - to ourselves as well as others. What is being destroyed by anger and hatred is our own happiness and our own capacity for tranquillity, calm and concentration. Many of you have ta

07/07/2025

When the Dalai Lama escaped from Tibet, many of the monks left behind were captured by the Chinese and subjected to imprisonment and torture. One such monk escaped and found his way to the Dalai Lama. In his conversation with the Dalai Lama, the monk confessed that he had been in

09/06/2025

I want to deepen our exploration of Dependent Origination by introducing Transcendental Dependent Origination. Dependent Origination takes us through the determinative cycle of ignorance to "the origination of this entire mass of suffering” - through the 12 steps of samsar

02/06/2025

We’ve moved through the Satipatthana Sutta - the great teaching on Mindfulness - from the First Foundation of Mindfulness to the teachings and practices contain in the Fourth Foundation of Mindfulness. It is a great and deep teaching. Perhaps we’ve gotten an overview and dug a bi

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