Dear Readers,

 

Here are nine blog items from my blog. The blog items explore insight meditation (vipassana), mindfulness, sitting meditation, the Buddha’s teachings on truth, insight, diet, rebirth and more.

 

This weekly blog started in May, 2007. Currentlly (March 2016), there are more than 470 items on the blog.

 

From a Buddhist perspective, the blog includes articles/critiques, daily life, reflections, environment, social and political issues, poems and prose.

 

Below are links to nine of the blogs.

 

• What is Meditation?

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• Do religious Buddhists and secular Buddhists hold to extreme positions on reirth?

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• Why go on an insight meditation (vipassana) retreat?

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• Four Truths of the Noble Ones

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• Mindful Eating 

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• Are you tired? It may not be due to work and family life

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• Summary of the Discourse on Mindfulness of Breathing

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• The Buddha’s Words on Mindfulness, 32 Quotes from the Discourses

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• The Limits of Sitting Meditation