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The Power of Small Changes, Part 5 - Safety of Meditation (Pt. 1 of 2)

podcasts@pariyatti.org (podcasts@pariyatti.org) — Fri, 30 Jan 2026 19:28:00 GMT

This is a Pariyatti Presents... event recorded Nov. 9th, 2025 with Paul R. Fleischman, interviewed by Kory Goldberg, titled 'Safety of Meditation, pt. 1 of 2'. This is video five of 'The Power of Small Changes' interview series.

Paul R. Fleischman
Nov. 9, 2025
1 hour 55 minutes

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The Power of Small Changes - Part 4: Living as a Meditator in the Confusing, Pressured, and Tumultuous World

podcasts@pariyatti.org (podcasts@pariyatti.org) — Fri, 23 Jan 2026 18:42:00 GMT

This is a Pariyatti Presents... event recorded Oct. 19th, 2025 with Paul R. Fleischman, interviewed by Kory Goldberg, titled 'Living as a Meditator in the Confusing, Pressured, and Tumultuous World'. This is part four of 'The Power of Small Changes' interview series.

Paul R. Fleischman
Oct. 19, 2025
1 hour 46 minutes

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The Power of Small Changes - Part 3: Building a Sustainable Practice

podcasts@pariyatti.org (podcasts@pariyatti.org) — Fri, 16 Jan 2026 18:25:00 GMT

This is a Pariyatti Presents... event recorded Oct. 5th, 2025 with Paul R. Fleischman, interviewed by Kory Goldberg, titled 'Building a Sustainable Practice'. This is part three of 'The Power of Small Changes' interview series.

Paul R. Fleischman
Oct. 5, 2025
1 hour 42 minutes

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The Power of Small Changes - Part 2: How the Brain and the Body Make Vipassana Possible

podcasts@pariyatti.org (podcasts@pariyatti.org) — Fri, 09 Jan 2026 18:16:00 GMT

This is a Pariyatti Presents... event recorded May 25th, 2025 with Paul R. Fleischman, interviewed by Kory Goldberg, titled 'How the Brain and the Body Make Vipassana Possible'. This is part two of 'The Power of Small Changes' interview series.

Paul R. Fleischman
May 25, 2025
1 hour 44 minutes

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The Power of Small Changes - Part 1: The Psychological and Social Wellsprings of Vipassana

podcasts@pariyatti.org (podcasts@pariyatti.org) — Thu, 01 Jan 2026 17:58:00 GMT

This is a Pariyatti Presents... event recorded May 4th, 2025 with Paul R. Fleischman, interviewed by Kory Goldberg, titled 'The Psychological and Social Wellsprings of Vipassana'. This is part one of 'The Power of Small Changes' interview series.

Paul R. Fleischman
May 4, 2025
1 hour 45 minutes

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Epilogue: Manjushri’s Burden from Journey of Insight Meditation

podcasts@pariyatti.org (podcasts@pariyatti.org) — Fri, 06 Jun 2025 20:21:00 GMT

Epilogue: Manjushri’s Burden from Journey of Insight Meditation by Eric Lerner

I SET THE CHAIN SAW down on the stump of the tree which I had just felled and sat down on the log to drink from my canteen. It was the very same orange water bag I had purchased to take with me to India two years ago. I looked up through the bare November trees at the sun edging toward the apex of its low autumn arc. Then I looked at the piles of cordwood I’d accumulated along the road during the past months. There would certainly be enough for the stoves before the first snowfall. Satisfied, I picked up my saw and headed back to the house. ...

by Eric Lerner
2025
20 minutes 58 seconds

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Ch. 14 - Time Past and Time Present from Journey of Insight Meditation

podcasts@pariyatti.org (podcasts@pariyatti.org) — Fri, 30 May 2025 20:19:00 GMT

Ch. 14 - Time Past and Time Present from Journey of Insight Meditation by Eric Lerner

DELHI HOT LIKE A KILN. I wandered through empty streets at midday making final connections. London like a plunge into ice water, only hours later. I stood shivering in the transit lounge, my thin wool shawl wrapped tight around my shoulders, my socks incongruous in Indian sandals, even more incongruous in white pajama clothes, amidst fur and leather coats, heavy sweaters and fat, flushed, liquor-stained faces. I was emaciated by comparison. Crash landing in Boston, hours late. Time sense destroyed. I slept last in Calcutta. A strange wakefulness haunted my body. Alert to ponderous events all around me, I followed my breath as a customs official began pawing through my bag. Suddenly he stopped and handed it back to me with an apologetic smile. I felt a rising thickness in my throat to get beyond that door. She would be waiting. At first she wasn’t sure she could, but after letters back and forth, she’d finally agreed. ...

by Eric Lerner
2025
34 minutes 47 seconds

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Ch. 13 - The Essence is Anicca from Journey of Insight Meditation

podcasts@pariyatti.org (podcasts@pariyatti.org) — Fri, 23 May 2025 20:17:00 GMT

Ch. 13 - The Essence is Anicca from Journey of Insight Meditation by Eric Lerner

THE TWO-BLADED FAN above my head cut ponderously through the thick, hot air. It was late April and the annual three-month heat wave was in full bloom in Madras. My own body temperature had gone amok with some indeterminate fever, and I’d spent the past three days in this hotel room waiting quietly for my illness to pass. It was a comfortable enough place to be sick, with its clean, white walls and stone floors, and outside, a balcony that overlooked gardened courtyards where huge trees reached up to the third tier of rooms. The dark and faintly musky atmosphere was almost Mediterranean. ...

by Eric Lerner
2025
53 minutes 16 seconds

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Ch. 12 - The Great Blind Sea Turtle from Journey of Insight Meditation

podcasts@pariyatti.org (podcasts@pariyatti.org) — Fri, 16 May 2025 20:14:00 GMT

Ch. 12 - The Great Blind Sea Turtle from Journey of Insight Meditation by Eric Lerner

ON MY RETURN TO the monastery from my brief journey out into the world, I had been warmly greeted by the head monk, Nyayaka Maha Thera, and by my two friends Bhikkhus Sunno and Ratanapala, who were convinced that I had returned for good. It was quite a homecoming. I asked Sunno if he might like to take a walk out to my hut one afternoon and have some tea so we could talk. He was quite pleased by the invitation and promised to visit me soon. The days went by, though, and he didn’t come. One day after lunch, I sent the young boy who served me food back into the meditation quarters to fetch Sunno. I didn’t think it proper for me simply to wander in there unexpectedly. Sunno appeared with a big smile, and after apologizing for not being able to make it to my kuti, invited me to his quarters. ...

by Eric Lerner
2025
39 minutes 01 seconds

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Ch. 11 - The Path of Power from Journey of Insight Meditation

podcasts@pariyatti.org (podcasts@pariyatti.org) — Fri, 09 May 2025 20:12:00 GMT

Ch. 11 - The Path of Power from Journey of Insight Meditation by Eric Lerner

THE LIGHT OF GOD. Ishvara, the Lord. Divine Luminescence. Seen with the mind’s eye only through a mind that can see. I stared with eyelids drawn immobile at an empty black background. The shimmering disk of cool brilliance was not an object but an event, which eyes cannot see. My attention stayed with my breath as it had for days, the tiny touch of my life against thin skin. The awareness on that single point was almost unbroken. That stillness of mind created the light, the light that cannot be seen, only known, until I felt the light, breathed light as a tingly, glowing star. ...

by Eric Lerner
2025
24 minutes 23 seconds

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Ch. 10 - The Great Elder from Journey of Insight Meditation

podcasts@pariyatti.org (podcasts@pariyatti.org) — Fri, 02 May 2025 20:10:00 GMT

Ch. 10 - The Great Elder from Journey of Insight Meditation by Eric Lerner

AFTER TWO WEEKS OF isolation in the forest, I left the monastery for a short time, mostly to find out about the possibility of returning to Burma. It had been rumored that tourist visas to that country were going to be extended longer than seven days. If so, I could return there soon, and possibly stay for as long as a month. The rumors proved false, however, and I was left with a very open end to my trip. There was no particular rush to get back to Burma now, since that would probably be the last stop on my way home. And I certainly wasn’t ready to return home. ...

by Eric Lerner
2025
24 minutes 24 seconds

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Ch. 9 - A Taste of Stillness from Journey of Insight Meditation

podcasts@pariyatti.org (podcasts@pariyatti.org) — Fri, 25 Apr 2025 20:06:00 GMT

Ch. 9 - A Taste of Stillness from Journey of Insight Meditation by Eric Lerner

ON THE MORNING OF the tenth day I interrupted my return to the hut following my breakfast to catch my breath on a high flat rock that afforded a view of the entire valley beneath the monastery. The dawn haze had burned off, revealing the neighboring valley, whose sharply edged checkerboard fields stood out in contrast to the surrounding jungle. Perhaps I romanticized by calling this place “jungle” when, in fact, farmland was everywhere. But there is so much unclaimed land in Ceylon that nowhere in the countryside are you so far from the uncultivated forests that you’d not have second thoughts about wandering off in broad daylight, much less in the dark. No cobras here, though, the monks told me. The mongooses made sure of that. One of them was staring at me from a rock higher up the path. His elongated, rodentlike body was covered with prickly fur that made him look as though he’d been dunked in motor oil. His snoutish face was kind of cute, though, and I’d often seen the monks feeding these animals in the courtyard, as a good turn, no doubt, for the animal’s appetite for poisonous snakes. ...

by Eric Lerner
2025
20 minutes 53 seconds

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Ch. 8 - Unmeasured Time from Journey of Insight Meditation

podcasts@pariyatti.org (podcasts@pariyatti.org) — Fri, 18 Apr 2025 20:02:00 GMT

Ch. 8 - Unmeasured Time from Journey of Insight Meditation by Eric Lerner

THE ENTIRE ISLAND OF Ceylon has only eight million inhabitants, and as I stood idly waiting for a bus or walked through the streets of Colombo, the capital city, I no longer felt the constant psychic assault that I had been aware of in India. The most obvious difference, however, was that Ceylon was a Buddhist country. Even the most casual conversation easily turned to a common appreciation of the Dharma. There are probably no more Ceylonese who actually practice the heart of Buddha’s teachings than there are real practitioners of any religion anywhere, but everyone I met at least understood the value of his teachings and was willing to support those who really did wish to pursue them. ...

by Eric Lerner
2025
46 minutes 54 seconds

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Pariyatti Presents... Realizing Change: Sébastian Bernier's Story

podcasts@pariyatti.org (podcasts@pariyatti.org) — Sun, 13 Apr 2025 13:08:00 GMT

Realizing Change: Sébastian Bernier's Story

This a Pariyatti Presents... event of the Realizing Change Series: Sébastian Bernier's Story.

Sébastian Bernier
December 2, 2022
1 hour 4 minutes

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Ch. 7 - No Way Off This Path from Journey of Insight Meditation

podcasts@pariyatti.org (podcasts@pariyatti.org) — Fri, 11 Apr 2025 17:34:00 GMT

Ch. 7 - No Way Off This Path from Journey of Insight Meditation by Eric Lerner

SIX OF US ARRIVED at the International Meditation Center in Rangoon late in the afternoon of the day the retreat in memory of U Ba Khin was to begin. A charming, middle-aged Burmese gentleman who produced movies for a living met us at the gate and immediately took us on a tour of the grounds. After all the build-up and expectation that had surrounded our trip, it was difficult to appreciate the fact that we were actually there. All we could do was gawk as we followed our host around. The most prominent feature of the Center was the arrangement of the meditation cells, the small individual rooms where one was expected to sit in darkness and silence for most of the day. They surrounded a large central pagoda that contained the shrine room where U Ba Khin himself had sat in meditation. Opening onto the shrine room were eight cells, which were also accessible by doors from the outside. ...

by Eric Lerner
2025
29 minutes 48 seconds

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Ch. 6 - Why the Buddha Sat Under a Tree from Journey of Insight Meditation

podcasts@pariyatti.org (podcasts@pariyatti.org) — Fri, 04 Apr 2025 17:31:00 GMT

Ch. 6 - Why the Buddha Sat Under a Tree from Journey of Insight Meditation by Eric Lerner

IMMEDIATELY AFTER HOVER’s departure I had begun another retreat, and on New Year’s Day Goenka’s chanting brought to an end forty continuous days of meditation behind walls for me. An hour after the meditation ended, my monastic woolen shawl and white cotton pajama suit were tucked away in my bag, and I marveled at the strange feel of denim against my skin once again.

by Eric Lerner
2025
26 minutes 45 seconds

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Pariyatti Presents... An interview with Rivers Cuomo

podcasts@pariyatti.org (podcasts@pariyatti.org) — Sun, 30 Mar 2025 17:20:00 GMT

An interview with Rivers Cuomo
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This a Pariyatti Presents... event interview with Rivers Cuomo, lead singer, songwriter and guitarist for the band, Weezer. He is interviewed by Kory Goldberg, co-author of Along the Path.

Rivers Cuomo
February 18, 2024
54 minutes

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Ch. 5 - Right Effort from Journey of Insight Meditation

podcasts@pariyatti.org (podcasts@pariyatti.org) — Fri, 28 Mar 2025 17:27:00 GMT

Ch. 5 - Right Effort from Journey of Insight Meditation by Eric Lerner

TOWARD THE END OF the first week of the course, Hover introduced a new schedule for vipassana meditation which he had been shown on his recent trip to Burma. It consisted of six hour-long sittings each day in which the resolve was made not to move at all: two in the morning, three in the afternoon, and one at night after his discourse, plus some hours in the early morning and after tea. It didn’t take long for this regimen to produce some very deep pain. Shortly after we began it, a rock-hard knot about the size of a grapefruit surfaced in my neck. It grew in intensity during each hour-long sitting until I could no longer hold my attention on any other part of my body. When I focused right on the pain, my body would be gripped by enormous tension and the knot would suddenly disappear. This thrilled me the first time, but it soon became clear that it only meant that the knot would be back the next hour, stiffer, larger, and more difficult to deal with.

by Eric Lerner
2025
24 minutes 40 seconds

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Ch. 4 - Noble Silence from Journey of Insight Meditation

podcasts@pariyatti.org (podcasts@pariyatti.org) — Fri, 21 Mar 2025 17:00:00 GMT

Ch. 4 - Noble Silence from Journey of Insight Meditation by Eric Lerner

BENARES, THE SPIRITUAL CAPITAL of Hinduism, and the site of our next retreat, had been one of the most exciting places I’d visited in India or anywhere else in my travels around the world four years earlier. It’s a city of death and rebirth. Pilgrims gather there to bathe away their sins in the holy Ganges River waters and then patiently await the end of this life in order to be cremated beside the Mother of Waters. Saddhus and holy men mingle freely with the poor and the well-to-do. Everyone is a beggar at the end. The fires of cremation along the river banks produce eerie, smoky sunsets while the holy chanting of “Hare Krishna,” “Hare Krishna” goes on night and day.

by Eric Lerner
2025
30 minutes 25 seconds

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Ch. 3 - A Peacock is More Than a Bird from Journey of Insight Meditation

podcasts@pariyatti.org (podcasts@pariyatti.org) — Fri, 14 Mar 2025 17:45:00 GMT

Ch. 3 - A Peacock is More Than a Bird from Journey of Insight Meditation by Eric Lerner

IN MID-NOVEMBER, after nearly three weeks of waiting, I finally took a train to a small city in Gujarat state in the far west of India. It was the nicest time of the year in that part of the country. The weather was warm and dry with an empty blue sky all day, and the area had a different feel to it than any place I had been. It was less intense, almost relaxed, and without the air of desperation that much of India had those days, as its economy teetered toward collapse.

by Eric Lerner
2025
35 minutes 28 seconds

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Ch. 2 - Siva's Smile from Journey of Insight Meditation

podcasts@pariyatti.org (podcasts@pariyatti.org) — Fri, 07 Mar 2025 18:23:00 GMT

Ch. 2 - Siva’s Smile from Journey of Insight Meditation by Eric Lerner

IT TOOK A COUPLE of months to get used to the lack of drama that each hour of the ten-day retreat had contained. Hover had not given me much advice as to what to do next, except to keep sitting. Often I had no idea what I was doing, but I kept doing it at least one hour a day and although P, my wife, didn’t participate, she respected my effort. I hadn’t sat this evening, though, due to the rush of getting dinner before P and I went out. Now I wished I had. I wished I could be somewhere dark and quiet where I could close my eyes.

by Eric Lerner
2025
29 minutes 34 seconds

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Ch. 1 - The Dharma of an Aerospace Engineer from Journey of Insight Meditation

podcasts@pariyatti.org (podcasts@pariyatti.org) — Sat, 01 Mar 2025 00:00:00 GMT

Ch. 1 - The Dharma of an Aerospace Engineer from Journey of Insight Meditation by Eric Lerner

About a dozen of us sat cross-legged in a darkened living room in a Massachusetts country home, attentive to the speech of a man whom all present including myself would agree was a highly unlikely candidate for a meditation teacher. His name was Robert Hover, and he was an aerospace engineer from Los Angeles. He had the incongruity of a centaur. The bottom part of him looked right, seated comfortably on a cushion, wrapped in a Burmese style lungi, a cloth cylinder tied at the waist. Above that, though, was a 1950’s style short-sleeved sport shirt and a prominent, clean-shaven face and balding head with a fringe of gray hair cut as close as possible. He didn’t radiate beatitude, only practicality. He reminded me of my junior high school football coach. Something about his sparkling eyes, though, the slight hint of otherworldliness, reassured me.

by Eric Lerner
2025
27 minutes 13 seconds

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Introduction from Journey of Insight Meditation

podcasts@pariyatti.org (podcasts@pariyatti.org) — Sun, 23 Feb 2025 22:27:00 GMT

Introduction from Journey of Insight Meditation by Eric Lerner

AS THE WORLD ADVANCED into the early seventies I felt strangely dislocated. I really couldn’t accept that the sixties had so quickly become an “era” in the past tense. I tried to remind myself that, if only for a brief time, the mind of my generation had been wide open to experiences, perceptions of the universe and modes of life whose power and truth contradicted a lifetime of convention. For a while, through chemicals, a wholly other state of being seemed possible. In the initial hour’s rush of my first dose of mescaline, that surge in which my perceptions set out on their own, I was freed for the first time from my conceptions, and the world of accomplishment and prestige became someone else’s bad dream. But somehow, I was still the same. Despite the incredible visions of Truth I had experienced, I was no more peaceful or loving than ever, and as the visions became memories, I began to experience the most profound disorientation.

Nothing made sense. Almost overnight I had given up most of the beliefs and operating principles of twenty years. I was ready to give up old explanations as long as I had a new one. ...

by Eric Lerner
2025
7 minutes 38 seconds

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Review of Buddhism without Beliefs by Bhikkhu Bodhi

podcasts@pariyatti.org (podcasts@pariyatti.org) — Sat, 11 Jan 2025 01:24:00 GMT

Review of Buddhism without Beliefs by Bhikkhu Bodhi

It has often been said that Western Buddhism is distinguished from its Asian prototype by three innovative shifts: the replacement of the monastery by the lay community as the principal arena of Buddhist practice; the enhanced position of women; and the emergence of a grass-roots engaged Buddhism aimed at social and political transformation. These three developments, however, have been encompassed by a fourth which is so much taken for granted that it is barely noticed. This last innovation might be briefly characterized as an attempt to transplant Buddhist practice from its native soil of faith and doctrine into a new setting governed by largely secular concerns. For Asian Buddhists, including Eastern masters teaching in the West, this shift is so incomprehensible as to be invisible, while Western Buddhists regard it as so obvious that they rarely comment on it.

Stephen Batchelor, however, has clearly discerned the significance of this development and what it portends for the future. Having been trained in Asia in two monastic lineages (Tibetan Gelugpa and Korean Soen) and relinquished his monk’s vows to live as a lay Buddhist teacher in the West, he is acquainted with both traditional Buddhism and its Western offshoots. His book Buddhism without Beliefs is an intelligent and eloquent attempt to articulate the premises of the emerging secular Buddhism and define the parameters of a “dharma practice” appropriate to the new situation. ...

narrated by Jonathan Nelson
2025
22 minutes 32 seconds

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A Household Tradition by Patrick Given-Wilson

podcasts@pariyatti.org (podcasts@pariyatti.org) — Thu, 03 Oct 2024 20:54:00 GMT

A Household Tradition by Patrick Given-Wilson

This talk by Patrick Given-Wilson was given for the European Dhamma servers' meeting in Spain, June 2024. The talk is followed by a Q&A session.

by Patrick Given-Wilson
2024
62 minutes 2 seconds

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The Simpler Side of Buddhist Doctrine by Kassapa Thera

podcasts@pariyatti.org (podcasts@pariyatti.org) — Mon, 23 Sep 2024 22:53:00 GMT

The Simpler Side of Buddhist Doctrine by Kassapa Thera

In the Holy Books are many sermons, long and short, full of advice to the average layman. Notable amongst these is the Sigālovāda Suttanta, known as “the Layman’s Vinaya” which details correct behaviour for the good layman. Excellent though all such sermons are, none can surpass the brief simple appeal of the words to Nakula’s parents, which advise the cultivation of four things: Saddhā, Virtue, Generosity and Wisdom.

A striking thing in the Buddha-dhamma is that here we find naught of “Thou shalt” or “Thou shalt not.” When once it is realized that selfishness and self-indulgence cause all our woe, then a wise one strives for self mastery. Sīla is the mastery of speech and action. Of his own free will, the Buddhist “pledges to observe” this precept of virtue, and that. The minimum number of such precepts of virtue that the good Buddhist should observe is five: (1) I undertake to observe the precept to abstain from destroying the life of beings; (2) from taking things not given; (3) from sexual misconduct; (4) from false speech, and (5) from liquor that causes intoxication and heedlessness.

The Buddhist has no impossible postulates; he tries to see, as his teacher taught, “things as they really are.” He looks at the world around him and sees that all, all is transitory there. He sees that what is transitory is bound to be sad. All that we love is passing away, and such parting from the loved is suffering. And we, we too are part of the passing show—with greying hair, falling and decaying teeth, disease and death looming ahead—it is all sad. The Buddhist sees that, to what is transient and sad, one clings in vain, and in all this we can see naught of which he can say—with assurance as to the permanent value of such statement—“This is me, this is mine, this is a soul.”

by Kassapa Thera
2024
63 minutes 6 seconds

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Parents and Children: Transmitting the Buddhist Heritage across Generations

podcasts@pariyatti.org (podcasts@pariyatti.org) — Mon, 05 Aug 2024 20:14:00 GMT

Parents and Children: Transmitting the Buddhist Heritage across Generations by Ven. Medagama Vajirañāṇa Nayaka Thera

One essential requirement for a happy society is that the individuals constituting the society must have tranquillity of mind. This tranquillity of mind arises from purity of thought, word, and action, which means the observance of an ethical lifestyle based on the Five Precepts. As human beings we are unique in our ability to see the difference between good and bad. We have the capacity to make moral choices and thereby to influence the pattern of our own lives and that of others. This influence is exerted through our thoughts, speech, and actions. If we can develop inner purity and strength, then we have established the basis on which we can give what is needed by others in all our relationships. It is up to us to create a safe and harmonious society.

by Ven. Medagama Vajirañāṇa Nayaka Thera
Narrated by Ethan Christy
2024
29 minutes 121 seconds

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Introduction to Vipassana by Patrick Given-Wilson

podcasts@pariyatti.org (podcasts@pariyatti.org) — Fri, 05 Jul 2024 23:28:00 GMT

Introduction to Vipassana

This short introduction to Vipassana talk was given on June 29, 2024 at Bondi Beach, Sydney, Australia.

by Patrick Given-Wilson
2024
32 minutes 48 seconds

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The Jewel in Mumbai by Bikram Dandiya

podcasts@pariyatti.org (podcasts@pariyatti.org) — Fri, 26 Apr 2024 20:08:00 GMT

The Jewel in Mumbai by Bikram Dandiya

"The Global Vipassana Pagoda in Mumbai was built to mark the birth centenary year of Sayagyi U Ba Khin, the Burmese Dhamma teacher of Shri Satya Narayan Goenkaji. The monument is built in the Myanmar style of the Shwedagon pagoda, as a token of gratitude to that country where the essence of the Buddha’s teachings was maintained in its pristine purity, and from where it is now spreading throughout India, and via India to the rest of the world. Our Dhamma teacher Shri S.N. Goenkaji became the vehicle to make this happen. He was also our inspiring guide for every important aspect of this building project. Tremendous volition and effort went into the building of this staggering monument and it is interesting and educative to explore the journey.

"Mr. Bikram Dandiya has beautifully chronicled some of these experiences in his booklet, “The Jewel in Mumbai”, the story of the making of the crystal bud atop the Global Vipassana Pagoda. Although his story concentrates on a specific part of this enormous structure, it typifies the challenges and solutions witnessed by those of us closely involved in its creation. For example, experts had opined that it was not possible to construct a 325 foot wide stone dome without supporting pillars; the dome went up thanks to indigenous technology, using thousands of huge interlocking stones weighing 700 to 800 kg each, and now seemingly floating in the air!"
—M.M. Khandhar, 14th January 2020

narrated by Bikram Dandiya
2024
23 minutes 35 seconds

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A Journey into Buddhism

podcasts@pariyatti.org (podcasts@pariyatti.org) — Sun, 17 Mar 2024 21:32:00 GMT

A Journey into Buddhism by Elizabeth J. A. Harris
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"The themes of the talks are rooted in my journey, as a Christian, into Buddhism. In the mid-1980s I felt the need to ’let go’ of my own religious conditioning to enter the world of another faith. It grew from a conviction that people with an interest in religion should not remain imprisoned within one framework but should explore others. The choice of Buddhism and Sri Lanka was a natural one for me. Buddhism’s emphasis on meditation and non-violence touched my own interests as a Christian, and a visit to Sri Lanka in 1984 had left me with the feeling that my link with the island was not finished.

I originally intended to be in Sri Lanka for one year. One year, however, became seven and a half, from 1986 until 1993. My aim throughout was not only to study Buddhism but to practise it. I did not consider myself involved in ’interfaith dialogue’ although I’m sure some perceived my actions in this way. I wanted to enter Buddhism on its own terms, as a human being rather than as a Christian."

narrated by Ethan Christy
2024
34 minutes 56 seconds

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Deconstructing Constructions: The Role of Saṅkhārā in the Buddha’s Discourses

podcasts@pariyatti.org (podcasts@pariyatti.org) — Mon, 26 Feb 2024 23:35:00 GMT

Deconstructing Constructions: The Role of Saṅkhārā in the Buddha’s Discourses by Bhikkhu Bodhi
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In this paper I intend to explore the Pāli term saṅkhārā, one of the pivotal concepts in the Buddha’s discourses. The Pāli word has such a rich gamut of meanings that merely to draw them out into the open sheds a flood of light on the Buddha’s understanding of reality. The word occurs in a variety of contexts that are subtly and intricately interwoven. To explore their contextual meanings and track down their interconnections will reveal the rigor of the Buddha’s philosophical vision and the coherence of his teaching in expressing that vision in language and concepts.

narrated by Jonathan Nelson
2024
50 minutes 48 seconds

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Your Best Friend

podcasts@pariyatti.org (podcasts@pariyatti.org) — Sat, 27 Jan 2024 21:23:00 GMT

Your Best Friend: And Other Essays by M. B. Werapitiya.

"To understand ourselves, we must live with ourselves and know all about ourselves. The mind for that matter is flickering, fickle, difficult to guard and control and flutters like a fish taken out of its watery abode and thrown upon the land. Somebody causes you hurt and although the aggressor has disappeared from sight, the hurt grows within you and every so often keeps surfacing with an overpowering intensity to give you a warp. Then again, you see something that has captured your attention and your mind has instantly photographed it from every conceivable angle with a see-through lens, developed it in your mental dark-room, brought out the prints and enlargements with the skill of an expert cameraman and processor rolled into one. Similarly, all the sense faculties and the mind are of high sensitivity and respond to anything and everything exciting. If the degree of excitement is not sufficiently satisfying, you step it up with the use of drugs, intoxicants and poisons. This activity goes on unabated and makes of you a human derelict. A wise person living in his mind protects himself holding himself dear. Such a person whose senses are subdued, whose pride is destroyed and is free from corruptions, is calm of mind, speech and action and rightly knows, and is perfectly peaceful and equipoised."

narrated by Tejendra Patel
2024
38 minutes 45 seconds

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Part 6 - Expanding Into New Frontiers by Bhikkhu Bodhi

podcasts@pariyatti.org (podcasts@pariyatti.org) — Sat, 23 Sep 2023 16:41:00 GMT

Part 6 - Expanding Into New Frontiers from 'What Does Mindfulness Really Mean' by Bhikkhu Bodhi
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Mindfulness has traveled a long way from its homeland in northeast India. It has journeyed to the island of Sri Lanka, the river basins of southeast Asia, the mountain monasteries of China, Korea, and Japan, and the hermitages of the Himalayan kingdoms. But the last lap of its journey is without parallel. Today Buddhist meditation has been lifted from its traditional setting in Buddhist doctrine and faith and transplanted in a secularized culture bent on pragmatic results. Here it is finding new accommodations in urban meditation centers and even in busy hospitals, pain clinics, and treatment centers. Its teachers and practitioners are more likely to wear street clothing or white coats than ochre robes; they are more likely to hold degrees in medicine and psychology than in Buddhist philosophy and scripture. Meditation is being taught to help people obtain release, not from the cycle of birth and death, but from the strains of financial pressures, psychological disorders, and stressful relationships.

narrated by Jonathan Nelson
2023
6 minutes 58 seconds

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Part 5 - Clear Comprehension by Bhikkhu Bodhi

podcasts@pariyatti.org (podcasts@pariyatti.org) — Sat, 16 Sep 2023 16:38:00 GMT

Part 5 - Clear Comprehension from 'What Does Mindfulness Really Mean' by Bhikkhu Bodhi
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While I said just before that clear comprehension plays a more prominent role in the contemplation of experiential phenomena, the refrain on right mindfulness shows that clear comprehension has been present to some degree all along. The formula describes clear comprehension as a constant entering each exercise virtually from the start. Whether contemplating the body, feelings, states of mind, or experiential phenomena, the meditator dwells “ardent, clearly comprehending, and mindful.”

narrated by Jonathan Nelson
2023
5 minutes 55 seconds

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Part 4 - What the Suttas Say by Bhikkhu Bodhi

podcasts@pariyatti.org (podcasts@pariyatti.org) — Sat, 09 Sep 2023 16:33:00 GMT

Part 4 - What the Suttas Say from 'What Does Mindfulness Really Mean' by Bhikkhu Bodhi
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Nevertheless, despite my reservations about the use of “bare attention” as an alternative expression for sati, if we consider how mindfulness is to be practiced in the system laid down in the Satipaṭṭhāna Sutta, we can find considerable support for the idea that the initial task of sati is to “keep to a bare registering of the facts observed” as free as possible from distorting conceptual elaborations. The problem, as I see it, is not with conceptualization itself, but with conceptualization that ascribes erroneous attributes to the objects and the experiential act itself. An experiential event can be viewed as a field distributed between two poles, the objective datum and the subjective act that cognizes it. Ordinarily, on account of the spontaneous functioning of unenlightened consciousness, this polarity is reified into a sharp duality of subject and object. The subjective pole seems to coalesce into a substantially existent “I,” an ego-self that hovers in the background as an autonomous and independent entity. The objective pole presents itself as an object that is there “for me,” ready to serve or oppose my purposes; thus it becomes a potential object of craving or aversion. This process is what the suttas refer to as “I-making” and “mine-making” (ahaṃkāra mamaṃkāra). It is the task of meditation to dismantle this structure by penetrating the selfless nature of all phenomena, whether pertaining to the objective or subjective poles of the experience.

narrated by Jonathan Nelson
2023
9 minutes 10 seconds

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Part 3 - Mindfulness and Bare Attention by Bhikkhu Bodhi

podcasts@pariyatti.org (podcasts@pariyatti.org) — Sat, 02 Sep 2023 16:29:00 GMT

Part 3 - Mindfulness and Bare Attention from 'What Does Mindfulness Really Mean' by Bhikkhu Bodhi
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Many commentators who teach and practice in the contemporary vipassana movement have sought to convey the experiential flavor of mindfulness by means of the expression “bare attention.” With certain reservations (which I will discuss), I believe this characterization is acceptable if understood as a procedural directive for cultivating mindfulness in accordance with certain methods. It helps a novice meditator who has newly embarked on this unfamiliar enterprise get a grip on the appropriate way to observe the phenomenal field. The purpose of the expression would then be seen as pragmatic rather than doctrinal, as pedagogical rather than definitive.

narrated by Jonathan Nelson
2023
21 minutes 56 seconds

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Part 2 - The Meaning of Sati by Bhikkhu Bodhi

podcasts@pariyatti.org (podcasts@pariyatti.org) — Sat, 26 Aug 2023 16:25:00 GMT

Part 2 - The Meaning of Sati from 'What Does Mindfulness Really Mean' by Bhikkhu Bodhi
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A problem in hermeneutics, with intimate bearings on the actual practice of meditation, concerns the exact meaning of the word sati both in general and in relation to Buddhist contemplative activity. We take the rendering “mindfulness” so much for granted that we rarely inquire into the precise nuances of the English term, let alone the meaning of the original Pāli word it represents and the adequacy of the former as a rendering for the latter. The word “mindfulness” is itself so vague and elastic that it serves almost as a cipher into which we can read virtually anything we want. Hence we seldom recognize that the word was chosen as a rendering for sati at a particular point in time, after other terms had been tried and found inadequate.

narrated by Jonathan Nelson
2023
23 minutes 50 seconds

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Part 1 - Mindfulness in the Buddhist Path by Bhikkhu Bodhi

podcasts@pariyatti.org (podcasts@pariyatti.org) — Wed, 16 Aug 2023 22:01:00 GMT

Part 1 - Mindfulness in the Buddhist Path from 'What Does Mindfulness Really Mean' by Bhikkhu Bodhi
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The entry of systematic mindfulness practice into the fields of stress reduction and psychotherapy has dramatically altered modern medicine’s perspectives on our capacity to regulate and overcome our human vulnerabilities. Mindfulness made its debut as a therapeutic discipline in 1979, when Jon Kabat-Zinn introduced his program of “Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction” at the University of Massachusetts Medical Center. Since then its use to reduce pain and stress has been adopted by hundreds of medical centers, hospitals, and clinics around the world. The application of mindfulness in clinical settings has spread beyond stress reduction to psychotherapy, where it has proven a potent tool for helping patients deal with such conditions as depression, anxiety, and obsessive-compulsive disorders.

narrated by Jonathan Nelson
2023
12 minutes 20 seconds

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Sangha at the Crossroads

podcasts@pariyatti.org (podcasts@pariyatti.org) — Sat, 20 May 2023 15:00:00 GMT

Sangha at the Crossroads by Bhikkhu Bodhi

"In this article I want to focus on one particular constituency of Buddhists in present day Sri Lanka, the Bhikkhu Sangha, the Order of Monks. I intend to examine, though briefly, the problems it faces and its prospects for the future. This task is especially critical because of the central role the Sangha plays in guiding the destiny of the Sāsana, and it is clear that if the Sangha does not learn to deal with the momentous forces inundating present-day society, the future will see it increasingly relegated to the sidelines...."

This is a Pariyatti audiobook of the essay "Sangha at the Crossroads" from the book Facing the Future: Four Essays on the Social Relevance of Buddhism by Bhikkhu Bodhi.

Narrated by Shelina Hetherington
2023
38 minutes

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The Changing Face of Buddhism

podcasts@pariyatti.org (podcasts@pariyatti.org) — Sat, 13 May 2023 15:00:00 GMT

The Changing Face of Buddhism by Bhikkhu Bodhi

"If Buddhism is failing to penetrate deep into the hearts of those who profess it as their faith, we have to ask ourselves why, and to ask what can be done to reverse present trends. I would like to approach these questions by first asking what role Buddhism is intended to play in our lives in the first place. I will deal with this question by distinguishing two aspects of Buddhism both stemming from the Buddha’s original teaching. I shall call these the liberative and the accommodative strands of the Dhamma...."

This is a Pariyatti audiobook of the essay "The Changing Face of Buddhism" from the book Facing the Future: Four Essays on the Social Relevance of Buddhism by Bhikkhu Bodhi.

Narrated by Shelina Hetherington
2023
30 minutes

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A Buddhist Approach to Economic and Social Development

podcasts@pariyatti.org (podcasts@pariyatti.org) — Sat, 06 May 2023 15:00:00 GMT

A Buddhist Approach to Economic and Social Development by Bhikkhu Bodhi

"The notion of economic and social development has today become the rallying call of politicians, business leaders, and policy planners clear across the globe. This notion thus exercises a tremendous influence on the lives of all human beings, both at the personal level and as a determinant of social policy. Although the Buddhist texts prescribe certain principles to guide human beings in their economic and social activities, the notions of economic and social development that dominate current policy formulation have no precise parallels in earlier epochs. Thus to give adequate treatment to our topic it is not enough merely to listen to the canonical texts. Rather, we must draw out the implications of such ideas as economic and social development in their bearings on present-day social policy. Then we must use the profound perspectives offered us by the Dhamma as a tool for evaluating them and judging their worth."

This is a Pariyatti audiobook of the essay "A Buddhist Approach to Economic and Social Development" from the book Facing the Future: Four Essays on the Social Relevance of Buddhism by Bhikkhu Bodhi.

Narrated by Shelina Hetherington
2023
45 minutes

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A Buddhist Social Ethic for the New Century

podcasts@pariyatti.org (podcasts@pariyatti.org) — Sat, 29 Apr 2023 15:00:00 GMT

A Buddhist Social Ethic for the New Century by Bhikkhu Bodhi

"In Theravada Buddhist circles during the past few decades a debate has repeatedly erupted over the question whether or not jhāna is necessary to attain the “paths and fruits,” that is, the four graded stages of enlightenment. The debate has been sparked off by the rise to prominence of the various systems of insight meditation that have become popular both in Asia and the West, especially among lay Buddhists. Those who advocate such systems of meditation contend that the paths and fruits can be attained by developing insight (vipassanā) without a foundation of jhāna. If we use the Buddha’s teachings as a lens to examine the corporate economic system and its offshoot, the consumerist culture, we will see that it is ultimately detrimental to the well-being of both its masters and servants alike. Drawing upon the tools of Buddhist analysis, let us briefly sketch the inner dynamics of this system. We see in the first instance that such a social order is founded upon ignorance or delusion (avijjā, moha), namely, the supposition that material wealth and consumption are the criteria of the good life. According to the Buddhist texts, when ignorance infiltrates our cognitive systems it issues in a series of “distortions” (vipallāsa) which infect our perception (saññā), thinking (citta), and views (diṭṭhi). The Buddha mentions four such distortions: the notions that the impermanent is permanent, that the painful (or suffering) is pleasant, that the insubstantial is a self, and that the unbeautiful is beautiful. At the most basic level we perceive things by way of these distortions; when these distorted perceptions are taken up for reflection, we start thinking in terms of them; and finally, under the combined influence of distorted perception and thought, we adopt views—that is, beliefs, doctrines, and ideologies—that affirm the mistaken notions of permanence, pleasure, selfhood, and beauty."

This is a Pariyatti audiobook of the essay "A Buddhist Social Ethic for the New Century" from the book Facing the Future: Four Essays on the Social Relevance of Buddhism by Bhikkhu Bodhi.

Narrated by Shelina Hetherington
2023
1 hours 03 minutes

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The Jhānas and the Lay Disciple According to the Pāli Suttas

podcasts@pariyatti.org (podcasts@pariyatti.org) — Fri, 21 Apr 2023 15:03:00 GMT

The Jhānas and the Lay Disciple According to the Pāli Suttas by Bhikkhu Bodhi
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This is a Pariyatti audiobook of the essay "The Jhānas and the Lay Disciple According to the Pāli Canon" from the book Investigating the Dhamma by Bhikkhu Bodhi.

Narrated by Jonathan Nelson
2023
1 hours 16 minutes

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A Lifetime Doing Nothing (Story 98 excerpt)

podcasts@pariyatti.org (podcasts@pariyatti.org) — Sat, 15 Apr 2023 17:45:00 GMT

Story 98 from 'A Lifetime Doing Nothing' by Ian McCrorie
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There is an old story about a young seeker who asks the abbot of a nearby monastery for guidance on how to become enlightened. The abbot declines his request but sends him to a shoemaker in a nearby village. The abbot assures him that the shoemaker will help him achieve enlightenment. The young seeker went to find the shoemaker, with one caveat from the abbot: “Learn everything you can from the shoemaker, but don't ask him anything spiritual.”...

narrated by Ian McCrorie
2023
12 minutes 28 seconds

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A Lifetime Doing Nothing (Story 97 excerpt)

podcasts@pariyatti.org (podcasts@pariyatti.org) — Wed, 12 Apr 2023 17:42:00 GMT

Story 97 from 'A Lifetime Doing Nothing' by Ian McCrorie
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How long will it take to be enlightened? This is such a firstworld question. We want the truth and we want it now, to paraphrase Jim Morrison. There is no answer to that question, because it is the wrong question. And what’s more, enlightenment is not simply an answer, similar to the woman in Saks Fifth Avenue who asked how much the fur coat cost in the window who was told, “Madam, if you have to ask, you can’t afford it.” Nevertheless, let’s respond with the truth rather than attempting an answer to the wrong question....

narrated by Ian McCrorie
2023
4 minutes 41 seconds

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A Lifetime Doing Nothing (Story 96 excerpt)

podcasts@pariyatti.org (podcasts@pariyatti.org) — Sat, 08 Apr 2023 17:33:00 GMT

Story 96 from 'A Lifetime Doing Nothing' by Ian McCrorie
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My teacher in India eventually attracted so many students that he began to appoint assistants to lead retreats on their own. I began assisting him in 1996 and soon was made a senior assistant teacher. I led ten-day retreats throughout Canada, the United States, England, Myanmar, and India. I especially enjoyed addressing the many issues my students faced, most of whom were dealing with the daily shock of seeing into the skittishness of their minds for the first time. I was on a mission to spread the teachings, I had status and prestige within the community of meditators, and my personal practice was strong. How my life had changed!...

narrated by Ian McCrorie
2023
5 minutes 54 seconds

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A Lifetime Doing Nothing (Story 95 excerpt)

podcasts@pariyatti.org (podcasts@pariyatti.org) — Wed, 05 Apr 2023 17:32:00 GMT

Story 95 from 'A Lifetime Doing Nothing' by Ian McCrorie
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Doing non-doing is a long path and is not always straightforward. To understand what you need to do and why and how is relatively easy, and in this regard I hope this little book has been a help. However, old habit patterns, especially latent tendencies, are pernicious. You may continue to be sidetracked by their beguiling beckoning to react. You may succumb from time to time. You may find the process hopeless. You may get frustrated. These reactions are also old habit patterns. It is as if you are at a masked ball, dancing with many different partners, all of whom keep exchanging their masks with each other. Still, do not give up. Have faith....

narrated by Ian McCrorie
2023
5 minutes 54 seconds

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A Lifetime Doing Nothing (Story 94 excerpt)

podcasts@pariyatti.org (podcasts@pariyatti.org) — Sat, 01 Apr 2023 17:29:00 GMT

Story 94 from 'A Lifetime Doing Nothing' by Ian McCrorie
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With the death of a loved one, a grieving period is important, as is understanding how the mind works and how doing nothing with clear comprehension does not eliminate the grief. Once again, grieving is a natural condition of the mind. It is neither good nor bad. Some may be tempted to put on a happy face to demonstrate the powers of meditation. They can keep up the façade for a while. In time the effort to remain calm peters out. The suppressed grief returns in a myriad of ways later in life, when perhaps you cannot see a direct correlation between what you are presently dealing with and the death of someone close some months or even years before....

narrated by Ian McCrorie
2023
3 minutes 30 seconds

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A Lifetime Doing Nothing (Story 93 excerpt)

podcasts@pariyatti.org (podcasts@pariyatti.org) — Wed, 29 Mar 2023 17:27:00 GMT

Story 93 from 'A Lifetime Doing Nothing' by Ian McCrorie
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According to Thoreau, “The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation.” I think when people read this, they focus on the word “quiet” as the problematic one in the sentence. Echoing Pascal, quiet isn't the problem, it is the inability to accept the quiet that leads to the desperation. We don't need to change our environs as much as change ourselves, because as Anaïs Nin wrote, “We see things not as they are, but as we are.”...

narrated by Ian McCrorie
2023
3 minutes 10 seconds

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A Lifetime Doing Nothing (Story 92 excerpt)

podcasts@pariyatti.org (podcasts@pariyatti.org) — Sat, 25 Mar 2023 17:25:00 GMT

Story 92 from 'A Lifetime Doing Nothing' by Ian McCrorie
.

In the center of Igatpuri village is a street market. Vendors sit at stalls and sell their produce. Because every vendor sits in the same location, everyone knows what they sell. So all they need announce is the price. They don’t try to out shout one another. They take turns. This creates a sort of chant, a back and forth. Except for the Hindi, it’s a revival meeting in rural Alabama. At the main corner of the market are the banana sellers. First time there, I thought “do rupee” was the Hindi word for banana....

narrated by Ian McCrorie
2023
2 minutes 56 seconds

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podcasts@pariyatti.org (podcasts@pariyatti.org) — Wed, 22 Mar 2023 17:18:00 GMT

Story 91 from 'A Lifetime Doing Nothing' by Ian McCrorie
.

We needn't pause to figure out our next step in life. Life, real life, is there in the pause, in the quagmire of conflicting choices. We then choose one route and look for signs that this is the correct way to go. No doubt. “I have a good feeling about this” is more a sense of relief about finally choosing one route than a certainty that this route has been swept clean and is devoid of IEDs. Even the best choices cough up hairballs of unforeseen consequences.

narrated by Ian McCrorie
2023
4 minutes 04 seconds

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podcasts@pariyatti.org (podcasts@pariyatti.org) — Sat, 18 Mar 2023 21:23:00 GMT

Story 90 from 'A Lifetime Doing Nothing' by Ian McCrorie
.

Most everyone is possessed by their possessions. I know people who are owned by their pets. I know others who build heated garages for their prized automobiles. My aunt bequeathed me an old rocking chair to which she added the caveat that I never change its mauve covering. In those years, I moved almost every year and carried that rocker to each apartment until its springs went and you couldn't sit in it without receiving a full rectal examination. And if you think about it almost everyone carries within themselves their own version of the mauve rocker,...

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2023
4 minutes 32 seconds

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A Lifetime Doing Nothing (Story 89 excerpt)

podcasts@pariyatti.org (podcasts@pariyatti.org) — Wed, 15 Mar 2023 21:21:00 GMT

Story 89 from 'A Lifetime Doing Nothing' by Ian McCrorie
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I remember a Sayadaw (respected teacher) who lived in a remote monastery in upper Burma in the vicinity of Sagaing Hills. He was elderly and blind and very much loved. I visited him, excited to both meet a living legend and pay my respects. I was told to wait until he went for his evening walk when he would be with his attendant who could serve as a translator....

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2023
5 minutes 43 seconds

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A Lifetime Doing Nothing (Story 88 excerpt)

podcasts@pariyatti.org (podcasts@pariyatti.org) — Sat, 11 Mar 2023 22:20:00 GMT

Story 88 from 'A Lifetime Doing Nothing' by Ian McCrorie
.

I volunteered with Mother Theresa at her Sisters of Charity palliative care hostel in Calcutta. My service was to help with the lunch meal as well as a certain undefined “nursing.” The hostel was smaller than I had expected and the number of volunteers fewer than I had hoped. I thought a larger cohort would allow me a few days to get my bearings. That was not to be the case....

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2023
5 minutes 09 seconds

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A Lifetime Doing Nothing (Story 87 excerpt)

podcasts@pariyatti.org (podcasts@pariyatti.org) — Wed, 08 Mar 2023 22:17:00 GMT

Story 87 from 'A Lifetime Doing Nothing' by Ian McCrorie
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Two more salient points about mettā. Mettā must be tempered by wisdom. There is a parable from India of a kind man who came upon a frog in the middle of a busy road. Concerned that the frog might be crushed under the wheels of a bullock cart and feeling uncomfortable leaving him to his fate, he gently picked him up and transferred him safely to the side of the road from whence he had come....

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2023
3 minutes 32 seconds

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A Lifetime Doing Nothing (Story 86 excerpt)

podcasts@pariyatti.org (podcasts@pariyatti.org) — Sat, 04 Mar 2023 22:15:00 GMT

Story 86 from 'A Lifetime Doing Nothing' by Ian McCrorie
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Mettā is a Pāli word meaning loving-kindness. As the mind deconditions, many positive mind states arise. The emergence of these so-called divine abodes had been held back by the continually self-reinforcing habitual patterns that you thought defined you....

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2023
6 minutes 14 seconds

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A Lifetime Doing Nothing (Story 85 excerpt)

podcasts@pariyatti.org (podcasts@pariyatti.org) — Wed, 01 Mar 2023 22:14:00 GMT

Story 85 from 'A Lifetime Doing Nothing' by Ian McCrorie
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In Maharashtra a few decades ago, my elderly meditation teacher was delivering his evening discourse when a deranged sādhu rushed at him from the back of the hall. The sādhu screamed incoherently and thrashed his arms about, ready to strike him. My teacher stopped his talk…and closed his eyes. He remained seated....

narrated by Ian McCrorie
2023
3 minutes 06 seconds

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A Lifetime Doing Nothing (Story 84 excerpt)

podcasts@pariyatti.org (podcasts@pariyatti.org) — Sat, 25 Feb 2023 22:12:00 GMT

Story 84 from 'A Lifetime Doing Nothing' by Ian McCrorie
.

In her book, Educated, about growing up in a survivalist Mormon family where school was not an option and daily manual labor a necessity, Tara Westover relates how she found herself standing on a rooftop in England during a windstorm....

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2023
3 minutes 43 seconds

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A Lifetime Doing Nothing (Story 83 excerpt)

podcasts@pariyatti.org (podcasts@pariyatti.org) — Wed, 22 Feb 2023 22:10:00 GMT

Story 83 from 'A Lifetime Doing Nothing' by Ian McCrorie
.

Friendship. Where would we be without our friends? This is true for the homeless alcoholic who followed his friends’ lead, quit school, took to the road, lived high and free until he lost his health, his integrity, and the courage to turn his life around. And this is true for most of the titans of Silicon Valley who succeeded thanks to friends....

narrated by Ian McCrorie
2023
3 minutes 43 seconds

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A Lifetime Doing Nothing (Story 82 excerpt)

podcasts@pariyatti.org (podcasts@pariyatti.org) — Sat, 18 Feb 2023 22:08:00 GMT

Story 82 from 'A Lifetime Doing Nothing' by Ian McCrorie
.

An old proverb says that “as a man thinketh, so he is.” I’d like to alter this somewhat and proclaim that “as a man is conditioned, so he is.” Oft-repeated behaviors, beliefs, views, and thought patterns define who we seem to be. This we feel is carved in stone, because we feel comfortable with what is familiar....

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2023
2 minutes 26 seconds

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A Lifetime Doing Nothing (Story 81 excerpt)

podcasts@pariyatti.org (podcasts@pariyatti.org) — Wed, 15 Feb 2023 22:06:00 GMT

Story 81 from 'A Lifetime Doing Nothing' by Ian McCrorie
.

One time I chose to simply live in a small guesthouse on Gnat Agi Pagoda Road in Bahan Township in Burma. I would forego all travel. Across from my guesthouse was a tea shop from which I could watch all of Burma, past and present, pass by. Further down the road was a stitcher lady who would alter and repair my longyis. And behind her was a monastery where I could meditate....

narrated by Ian McCrorie
2023
2 minutes 44 seconds

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A Lifetime Doing Nothing (Story 80 excerpt)

podcasts@pariyatti.org (podcasts@pariyatti.org) — Sat, 11 Feb 2023 20:06:00 GMT

Story 80 from 'A Lifetime Doing Nothing' by Ian McCrorie
.

Matthew 21:22 promises us, “Whatsoever ye shall ask in prayer, ye shall receive.” Now I grant you that few people read the Bible these days, perhaps because they took Matthew too literally. But it doesn't matter, because today the good news of the Bible has been replaced by the Gospel according to Wellness. Pursuit of a good life has been replaced by the pursuit of the perfect life. “Everything ye pursue to become better, smarter, buffer, younger, more assertive, more caring, more inclusive, more diverse leads thee to a perfect life.”...

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2023
5 minutes 37 seconds

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A Lifetime Doing Nothing (Story 79 excerpt)

podcasts@pariyatti.org (podcasts@pariyatti.org) — Wed, 08 Feb 2023 20:04:00 GMT

Story 79 from 'A Lifetime Doing Nothing' by Ian McCrorie
.

Our cottage is on a small lake on the Canadian Shield. Our shoreline is very rocky, with large boulders deposited there as the glaciers retreated 10,000 years ago. Amazingly this shoreline provides sufficient sustenance for trees to grow and, in their own way, thrive. They protrude out perpendicularly from crevices between the rocks before turning upwards to catch a modicum of sunlight and spread their gnarly majesty....

narrated by Ian McCrorie
2023
2 minutes 58 seconds

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A Lifetime Doing Nothing (Story 78 excerpt)

podcasts@pariyatti.org (podcasts@pariyatti.org) — Sat, 04 Feb 2023 20:02:00 GMT

Story 78 from 'A Lifetime Doing Nothing' by Ian McCrorie
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One summer I drove a truck for an oil company. Two of us installed the oil tanks for furnaces in the basement of houses. It was dirty work. The basements were often unheated. They were seldom clean. One day, it was particularly cold and rainy. We entered through the back door into the kitchen. On my way to the basement stairs I came upon the owners, two unwed older sisters having a breakfast of tea and toast. The tea had just been poured, and...

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2023
4 minutes 51 seconds

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A Lifetime Doing Nothing (Story 77 excerpt)

podcasts@pariyatti.org (podcasts@pariyatti.org) — Wed, 01 Feb 2023 20:01:00 GMT

Story 77 from 'A Lifetime Doing Nothing' by Ian McCrorie
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Doing non-doing deconditions the mind so that a happy life, defined by the Stoics as true, virtuous, and natural, arises like a phoenix from the ashes of the conditioned mind. Since the real shift is within you, your new life may retain all the appearances of your old life. After all, the difference, they say, between heaven and hell is a mere sixteenth of an inch, surely an imperceptible amount of change in the grand scheme of things....

narrated by Ian McCrorie
2023
4 minutes 22 seconds

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A Lifetime Doing Nothing (Story 76 excerpt)

podcasts@pariyatti.org (podcasts@pariyatti.org) — Sat, 28 Jan 2023 19:59:00 GMT

Story 76 from 'A Lifetime Doing Nothing' by Ian McCrorie
.

In Korea it is considered rude to speak immediately after someone else has just spoken. Korean culture demands a slight pause to indicate the listeners have fully digested and appreciated the input. It gives them pause for thought. This promotes civilized dialogue in which everyone’s view is respected. It also calms blind reactions to some perceived fault in the argument. A pause is a conscious decision to...

narrated by Ian McCrorie
2023
2 minutes 31 seconds

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A Lifetime Doing Nothing (Story 75 excerpt)

podcasts@pariyatti.org (podcasts@pariyatti.org) — Wed, 25 Jan 2023 19:58:00 GMT

Story 75 from 'A Lifetime Doing Nothing' by Ian McCrorie
.

Years ago, when I would walk around my house late at night after everyone else was asleep, it felt like I had always lived there. I liked that it felt that way. As my oldest son said when he was three, “It feels as perfect as right.” I knew where the hardwood floors creaked, and I avoided those spots so I wouldn’t wake the baby who, like me, was a light sleeper. My wife and my five-year-old, he of the aphorism above, slept the sleep of the dead. I could drop a refrigerator on the creaky spots and they wouldn't stir....

narrated by Ian McCrorie
2023
4 minutes 24 seconds

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A Lifetime Doing Nothing (Story 74 excerpt)

podcasts@pariyatti.org (podcasts@pariyatti.org) — Sat, 21 Jan 2023 19:56:00 GMT

Story 74 from 'A Lifetime Doing Nothing' by Ian McCrorie
.

I loved the water buffalo I encountered in India. Despite their girth and their horns, they were very gentle creatures. They calmly abided all and sundry afflictions, heat, mosquitoes, and monsoon rains without so much as a by-your-leave. Other than whisking away unwanted bitey things with their tails, they endured, and they did so ever so calmly....

narrated by Ian McCrorie
2023
2 minutes 29 seconds

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A Lifetime Doing Nothing (Story 73 excerpt)

podcasts@pariyatti.org (podcasts@pariyatti.org) — Wed, 18 Jan 2023 19:55:00 GMT

Story 73 from 'A Lifetime Doing Nothing' by Ian McCrorie
.

I loved to go fishing with my father, because he was a terrible fisherman. He never caught anything. I was fine with this. I didn't like to put a worm on the hook. I didn't like taking the hook out of the fish's mouth, and I certainly couldn't bash the head of the fish against the seat of the boat to kill it....

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2023
5 minutes 47 seconds

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A Lifetime Doing Nothing (Story 72 excerpt)

podcasts@pariyatti.org (podcasts@pariyatti.org) — Sat, 14 Jan 2023 19:50:00 GMT

Story 72 from 'A Lifetime Doing Nothing' by Ian McCrorie
.

I think there is a place in our lives for tradition and even ritual. They keep our lives simple and understandable. In our family we have pancakes every Sunday and tea every evening. We go for walks together. We spend a month every summer at our cottage. We watch a movie every Friday night....

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2023
4 minutes 14 seconds

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A Lifetime Doing Nothing (Story 71 excerpt)

podcasts@pariyatti.org (podcasts@pariyatti.org) — Wed, 11 Jan 2023 19:49:00 GMT

Story 71 from 'A Lifetime Doing Nothing' by Ian McCrorie
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The summer after high school, Tony, his younger brother Chris, and I set out in an old Vauxhall held together with spit and bailing wire for points west on the Trans-Canada Highway. We camped the entire way and cooked over an open fire. Once we reached the Pacific, we headed south to the Oregon hills before turning east and eventually home and university. On the way we camped near Mount Rushmore, hoping to see the famous presidential sculptures the next morning....

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2023
4 minutes 22 seconds

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A Lifetime Doing Nothing (Story 70 excerpt)

podcasts@pariyatti.org (podcasts@pariyatti.org) — Sat, 07 Jan 2023 23:42:00 GMT

Story 70 from 'A Lifetime Doing Nothing' by Ian McCrorie
.

Bhante Rahula and I would meditate outside on some very flat but hard boulders because that summer was particularly hot. On this particular day, I crossed my legs and straightened my spine as usual. I closed my eyes, and almost immediately I felt nothing but subtle vibrating throughout my entire being. It appeared I had dissolved into pulsations. I felt no solidity. I had become a...

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2022
3 minutes 00 seconds

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How to Find More Psychological Stability in an Unstable Time: The Role of Meditation

podcasts@pariyatti.org (podcasts@pariyatti.org) — Fri, 06 Jan 2023 17:16:00 GMT

"How to Find More Psychological Stability in an Unstable Time: The Role of Meditation" is an online Zoom talk by Paul R. Fleischman given on November 10th, 2022, co-sponsored by Connecticut Vipassana, Being Well at Yale, Good Life Center, MCDB DEI Committee, New Haven Library, Hindu Life at Yale, Buddhist Life at Yale, South Asian Studies Council, New Haven Insight and Woodbridge Town Library. This was his fifth talk about Vipassana given to the greater New Haven and Yale communities.

Paul R. Fleischman
facilitated by Danielle Casioppo
2022
1 hour

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A Lifetime Doing Nothing (Story 69 excerpt)

podcasts@pariyatti.org (podcasts@pariyatti.org) — Wed, 04 Jan 2023 23:40:00 GMT

Story 69 from 'A Lifetime Doing Nothing' by Ian McCrorie
.

The more I investigate and dissect what I focus my attention on with clear comprehension, the more apparent becomes the changing nature of the mind and body. I don’t have to chase away any uncomfortable feelings or pains with alcohol or drugs or various distractions. I am less inclined to succumb to their whispered promise to stop being the person I am for this one evening and become...

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2022
5 minutes 06 seconds

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A Lifetime Doing Nothing (Story 68 excerpt)

podcasts@pariyatti.org (podcasts@pariyatti.org) — Sat, 31 Dec 2022 23:37:00 GMT

Story 68 from 'A Lifetime Doing Nothing' by Ian McCrorie
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On my way to school one bitterly cold winter's day, I passed a house in the early stages of being built. The workers were framing the roof. The wind was howling, the snow was blowing, and they kept at it because that is what we all must do. We choose our path…roofer, physicist, or, like me, a solo contemplative on a hilltop in India. But we hone our craft every day, even...

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2022
2 minutes 45 seconds

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Pariyatti Presents... Maintaining Your Meditation Practice at Home: A Panel Discussion

podcasts@pariyatti.org (podcasts@pariyatti.org) — Fri, 30 Dec 2022 17:05:00 GMT

Pariyatti Presents...a panel discussion about "Maintaining Your Meditation Practice at Home: Helpful Supports and Challenges" recorded on November 13, 2022. The panel consists of meditators in the tradition of Sayagyi U Ba Khin as taught by S.N. Goenka moderated by Paul R. Fleischman. The panelists (Michal Barnea Astrog, Wayne Smith, Kory Goldberg and Marta Van Patten) share their experiences based on the questions "What helps you with your daily meditation at home?" and "What are the difficulties that you face with your meditation at home?"

Michal Barnea Astrog, Wayne Smith, Kory Goldberg and Marta Van Patten
facilitated by Paul R. Fleischman
2022
1 hour

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A Lifetime Doing Nothing (Story 67 excerpt)

podcasts@pariyatti.org (podcasts@pariyatti.org) — Wed, 28 Dec 2022 23:35:00 GMT

Story 67 from 'A Lifetime Doing Nothing' by Ian McCrorie
.

I was too thin to have good quality clothes fit me well. When I wore a suit, my head looked too small. When I turned my head while wearing a collar and tie, neither collar nor tie moved. Like a compass, my tie always pointed north. If it weren't for the sleeves, I could perform a full 360-degree rotation without my suit getting a wrinkle. But in the end,...

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2022
5 minutes 01 seconds

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A Lifetime Doing Nothing (Story 66 excerpt)

podcasts@pariyatti.org (podcasts@pariyatti.org) — Sat, 24 Dec 2022 23:33:00 GMT

Story 66 from 'A Lifetime Doing Nothing' by Ian McCrorie
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To be a Buddhist is to be a Stoic and to be a Stoic is to be a Buddhist. Neither is a religion. Mere belief in their precepts holds no purchase. Reciting them every morning proves futile. Both speak of universal truths and natural laws that govern human and social behavior. Both schools are empirical, which is to say they are evidence-based. And that itself is grounded or tested, even, on one’s own experience. They both conclude that...

narrated by Ian McCrorie
2022
5 minutes 28 seconds

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Pariyatti Presents... An Interview with Bill Crecelius, author of A Meditator's Handbook

podcasts@pariyatti.org (podcasts@pariyatti.org) — Fri, 23 Dec 2022 16:53:00 GMT

This is a Pariyatti Presents... interview with Bill Crecelius, the author of A Meditator's Handbook, Vipassana teacher and practiioner of Vipassana meditation as taught by S.N. Goenka in the tradition of Sayagyi U Ba Khin. The interview is followed by a 30-minute Q&A session, where he answers selected questions from the audience.

Bill Crecelius
interviewed by Marta Van Patten
2022
1 hour 29 minutes

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A Lifetime Doing Nothing (Story 65 excerpt)

podcasts@pariyatti.org (podcasts@pariyatti.org) — Wed, 21 Dec 2022 23:31:00 GMT

Story 65 from 'A Lifetime Doing Nothing' by Ian McCrorie
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From my small hut atop a hill in Maharashtra, I could watch the farmers on the plains below. Late afternoon was my favorite time of day. The cow dust hour, it was called, and for good reason. The cows kicked up reddish dust as they were herded home from the pastures. The farmers sang...

narrated by Ian McCrorie
2022
2 minutes 13 seconds

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A Lifetime Doing Nothing (Story 64 excerpt)

podcasts@pariyatti.org (podcasts@pariyatti.org) — Sat, 17 Dec 2022 23:29:00 GMT

Story 64 from 'A Lifetime Doing Nothing' by Ian McCrorie
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When someone says hello to me in Korean, I invariably reply “kamsahamnida.” My response is immediate and trips naturally off my tongue. Unfortunately “kamsahamnida” does not mean “hello.” It means, “thank you.” But I don’t care. To my ear, “kamsahamnida” sounds like a greeting. It sounds more like a...

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2022
3 minutes 39 seconds

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Pariyatti Presents... An Interview with Ven. Bhikkhu Bodhi

podcasts@pariyatti.org (podcasts@pariyatti.org) — Fri, 16 Dec 2022 15:37:00 GMT

This is a Pariyatti Presents... interview with the Ven. Bhikkhu Bodhi on September 18, 2022. Ven. Bodhi discusses topics such as how he became a monk, how he started his Pāli translation work, the challenges encountered, social engagement as a monk (while running the charity Buddhist Global Relief), and right speech. The interview is followed by a 30-minute Q&A session, where he answers selected questions from the audience.

Ven. Bhikkhu Bodhi
interviewed by Kory Goldberg
2022
1 hour 32 minutes

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A Lifetime Doing Nothing (Story 63 excerpt)

podcasts@pariyatti.org (podcasts@pariyatti.org) — Wed, 14 Dec 2022 23:28:00 GMT

Story 63 from 'A Lifetime Doing Nothing' by Ian McCrorie
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I like to bake bread. Actually, the bread bakes itself; I simply facilitate the process. I add the flour to the yeast and water. I then knead the mixture, but even in this most tactile of experiences I am more an engaged observer than a creator. Kneading continues until the mixture reveals to my hands and fingers that the mixture is well kneaded. I do not know how long this takes,...

narrated by Ian McCrorie
2022
2 minutes 14 seconds

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A Lifetime Doing Nothing (Story 62 excerpt)

podcasts@pariyatti.org (podcasts@pariyatti.org) — Sat, 10 Dec 2022 23:21:00 GMT

Story 62 from 'A Lifetime Doing Nothing' by Ian McCrorie
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Because we aren't trying to get better or happier or stronger or wealthier, our life advice no longer needs to come from style gurus and lifestyle coaches. (What is a lifestyle anyway? And why does it need coaching?) Of course, we aren't trying to get sadder or weaker or poorer either. We are simply living a more unconditioned life, a more honest life, more content with our lot. We have not exchanged one overtly conditioned mindset for another,...

narrated by Ian McCrorie
2022
5 minutes 05 seconds

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Pariyatti Presents... Exploring the Path with Klaus Nothnagel - Interview July 17, 2022

podcasts@pariyatti.org (podcasts@pariyatti.org) — Sat, 10 Dec 2022 00:42:00 GMT

This is an interview with Klaus Nothnagel, Pāli teacher, author, and creator of the online Pāli courses "Exploring the Path" and "Buddhasahassanamavali."

Klaus Nothnagel
interviewed by Marta Van Patten
2022
1 hour 32 minutes

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A Lifetime Doing Nothing (Story 61 excerpt)

podcasts@pariyatti.org (podcasts@pariyatti.org) — Wed, 07 Dec 2022 23:17:00 GMT

Story 61 from 'A Lifetime Doing Nothing' by Ian McCrorie
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When I was young, we were a family of four living in a small apartment. At the time, especially as a teenager, I bemoaned my lot in life and wished I lived in a far grander home like a few of my friends.

My mother fancied herself a philosopher. She read Lin Yutang and Richard Needham of the Toronto Globe and Mail. My father was an army guy, a vet who lived for hockey and football. My mother had no one with whom she could discuss the issues of the day until I came along. Newspaper in hand, she would come at me as I was getting dressed to go out and play and begin by saying, “This is quite interesting…” Then...

narrated by Ian McCrorie
2022
5 minutes 16 seconds

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A Lifetime Doing Nothing (Story 60 excerpt)

podcasts@pariyatti.org (podcasts@pariyatti.org) — Sat, 03 Dec 2022 16:45:00 GMT

Story 60 from 'A Lifetime Doing Nothing' by Ian McCrorie
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As one proceeds on the non-doing path, the simpler life becomes. The simplicity refers to a lessening of inner confusion, not necessarily to fewer possessions. A letting go or a discarding happens naturally to all the habitual mind patterns that we immerse ourselves in. Again, it’s the craving for and our attachment to our chosen modes of escape...

narrated by Ian McCrorie
2022
4 minutes 40 seconds

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Vipassana’s Unique Focus and Features: An Introductory Talk by Paul R. Fleischman (July 17, 2022)

podcasts@pariyatti.org (podcasts@pariyatti.org) — Sat, 03 Dec 2022 00:35:00 GMT

This was an online talk given by Paul R. Fleischman to the Denver Insight Meditation Group on July 17, 2022. It is intended for an audience that, while experienced in practicing meditation or well-informed on the subject, still seeks to understand the unique features of Vipassana meditation as taught by S.N. Goenka and the organization that provides 10-day courses to learn it.

Paul R. Fleischman
hosted by the Denver Insight Meditation Group
2022
50 minutes

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A Lifetime Doing Nothing (Story 59 excerpt)

podcasts@pariyatti.org (podcasts@pariyatti.org) — Wed, 30 Nov 2022 16:44:00 GMT

Story 59 from 'A Lifetime Doing Nothing' by Ian McCrorie
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I have spent most of my adult life avoiding gainful employment. I remember telling my guidance counselor at the age of fourteen that I wanted to be a shepherd. I pictured myself lazing under a giant oak, my trusty staff at my side, ready to rescue any wayward sheep. But shepherding was not on his list of future occupations, so he checked off actuary for me. For years I thought the two were synonymous.

narrated by Ian McCrorie
2022
3 minutes 37 seconds

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A Lifetime Doing Nothing (Story 58 excerpt)

podcasts@pariyatti.org (podcasts@pariyatti.org) — Sat, 26 Nov 2022 16:41:00 GMT

Story 58 from 'A Lifetime Doing Nothing' by Ian McCrorie
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I don't do fun. I shun hysteria. I never understood the causal relationship between indulging in a fun activity and happiness. Having the bejesus scared out of me on a roller-coaster is not, in and of itself (as we used to insert into arguments in Philosophy 101), fun. It is terrifying. The fun can only arise, if at all, when the ride is...

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2022
3 minutes 36 seconds

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A Lifetime Doing Nothing (Story 57 excerpt)

podcasts@pariyatti.org (podcasts@pariyatti.org) — Wed, 23 Nov 2022 16:39:00 GMT

Story 57 from 'A Lifetime Doing Nothing' by Ian McCrorie
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One parent-teacher evening, a parent caught me alone at my desk and asked to see me for a few minutes. She seemed upset over some perceived injustice or oversight. She started in on me before she had sat down.

“My Eliza in your grade 6 geography class received a failing grade on her last test. She had studied very hard for that test. She is very upset with the mark she got...

narrated by Ian McCrorie
2022
3 minutes 17 seconds

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A Lifetime Doing Nothing (Story 56 excerpt)

podcasts@pariyatti.org (podcasts@pariyatti.org) — Sat, 19 Nov 2022 16:36:00 GMT

Story 56 from 'A Lifetime Doing Nothing' by Ian McCrorie
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I meditate mostly in my room, but I always meditate in silence. I remain still. Stillness is both a vehicle to silence and a byproduct of the same. Ajahn Chah referred to doing nondoing as a still forest pond. Stillness is also the antonym of distraction, whereas the conditioned mind is the epitome of distraction, filled as it is with well-trodden paths of judgment, impatience, craving, anger, and confusion. The myriad negative mind states prevent a banana from being seen as simply a banana.

narrated by Ian McCrorie
2022
4 minutes 29 seconds

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A Lifetime Doing Nothing (Story 55 excerpt)

podcasts@pariyatti.org (podcasts@pariyatti.org) — Wed, 16 Nov 2022 23:59:00 GMT

Story 55 from 'A Lifetime Doing Nothing' by Ian McCrorie
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On the way to Eungam Station in Seoul lived a tailor and his wife. He did simple alterations to pants and jackets. His wife did the measuring and the pinning. They had two large dry-cleaning machines, also her responsibility, as was the folding. He however did all the pressing. They both worked slowly. This being my favorite speed, I could relate. They took great care. They wore slippers because they lived upstairs. I always wanted a job in which...

narrated by Ian McCrorie
2022
2 minutes 38 seconds

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A Lifetime Doing Nothing (Story 54 excerpt)

podcasts@pariyatti.org (podcasts@pariyatti.org) — Sat, 12 Nov 2022 23:58:00 GMT

Story 54 from 'A Lifetime Doing Nothing' by Ian McCrorie
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When I was young, I would spend a few weeks of my summer holiday at my grandmother’s in Toronto. She lived by herself in a small apartment in the downtown. She had no television. She had no games or toys. There were no books at my age level, let alone comics. I loved it. My mother would catch up with Grandma. I was left to fend for myself. I was totally free, unprogrammed, unentrapped. I counted cars. I ran the streets.

narrated by Ian McCrorie
2022
3 minutes 49 seconds

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A Lifetime Doing Nothing (Story 53 excerpt)

podcasts@pariyatti.org (podcasts@pariyatti.org) — Wed, 09 Nov 2022 23:56:00 GMT

Story 53 from 'A Lifetime Doing Nothing' by Ian McCrorie
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Many years ago, I attended a performance of Aida. This was a full production and the director wanted to impress. In the opening scene, he featured a live elephant. The audience seemed to anticipate the arrival of the elephant more than the two hours of Verdi that would follow the pachyderm's entrance. As the curtain parted, there stood the elephant as right as rain, center stage. The woman seated beside me, unable to contain herself, shouted,...

narrated by Ian McCrorie
2022
3 minutes 32 seconds

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A Lifetime Doing Nothing (Story 52 excerpt)

podcasts@pariyatti.org (podcasts@pariyatti.org) — Sat, 05 Nov 2022 22:54:00 GMT

Story 52 from 'A Lifetime Doing Nothing' by Ian McCrorie
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Life naturally simplifies. The many miracles of small things sidetrack the singular quest for ever greater success and accomplishments. Life loses its Photoshop luster when you simply live it. The little voices in your head or your gut may tell you to go right or left, here or there as they are conditioned. These are not usually the voices of wisdom but of...

narrated by Ian McCrorie
2022
2 minutes 10 seconds

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A Lifetime Doing Nothing (Story 51 excerpt)

podcasts@pariyatti.org (podcasts@pariyatti.org) — Wed, 02 Nov 2022 22:52:00 GMT

Story 51 from 'A Lifetime Doing Nothing' by Ian McCrorie
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Even the daily grind can be seen anew. Marcus Aurelius said it best: “Early in the morning I am rising to do the work of a human being.” It matters not a jot how you spend your days, but each one bears the possibility of doing the work of a human being.

narrated by Ian McCrorie
2022
2 minutes 41 seconds

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A Lifetime Doing Nothing (Story 49 excerpt)

podcasts@pariyatti.org (podcasts@pariyatti.org) — Sun, 30 Oct 2022 20:37:00 GMT

Story 49 from 'A Lifetime Doing Nothing' by Ian McCrorie
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Doing non-doing, allowing the suffocating angst in, though insisting it must sit in the corner and not suck out all the oxygen in the room, opens up a new way of seeing and experiencing daily life. It is as if you had been suffering from severe cataracts before and now your vision is unimpaired. The clouds have dissipated. The familiar takes on subtle hues and an unfamiliar clarity, leading one to marvel in the contradiction that while everything is the same, everything is different....

narrated by Ian McCrorie
2022
3 minutes 56 seconds

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A Lifetime Doing Nothing (Story 50 excerpt)

podcasts@pariyatti.org (podcasts@pariyatti.org) — Sat, 29 Oct 2022 22:50:00 GMT

Story 50 from 'A Lifetime Doing Nothing' by Ian McCrorie
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I run almost every day. I don't push myself. I enjoy the sights and especially the smells as I run. I don't wear my glasses for that reason; my astigmatism enhances my sense of smell. I like the mustiness of mud thawing in the early spring and the tang of last night's rain as it evaporates in the first rays of the sun. Running is a kind of physical meditation. I am hyperaware of my breathing and every tweak and twitch in my body. I feel the sensations in my footfall. Like my daily meditation practice,...

narrated by Ian McCrorie
2022
3 minutes 23 seconds

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A Lifetime Doing Nothing (Story 48 excerpt)

podcasts@pariyatti.org (podcasts@pariyatti.org) — Wed, 26 Oct 2022 20:35:00 GMT

Story 48 from 'A Lifetime Doing Nothing' by Ian McCrorie
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The fourth and final noble truth, the prescription for our illness, to continue the medical metaphor, is outlined in eight stages. The path (which is not, you may remember, a path but a wheel) covers everything from your behavior, your occupation, your speech, and your daily practice, right up to your thoughts and understanding. Note, however,...

narrated by Ian McCrorie
2022
3 minutes 56 seconds

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A Lifetime Doing Nothing (Story 47 excerpt)

podcasts@pariyatti.org (podcasts@pariyatti.org) — Sun, 23 Oct 2022 20:33:00 GMT

Story 47 from 'A Lifetime Doing Nothing' by Ian McCrorie
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We used to drive to Toronto every Christmas vacation to spend the holidays with my grandmother. It was about 250 miles away, two-lane blacktop all the way. Our means of conveyance was at first a Prefect and later a Vanguard, both inexpensive, four-cylinder British imports with all the fire power of a lawn mower with Chronic Fatigue Syndrome....

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2022
3 minutes 34 seconds

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A Lifetime Doing Nothing (Story 46 excerpt)

podcasts@pariyatti.org (podcasts@pariyatti.org) — Wed, 19 Oct 2022 20:31:00 GMT

Story 46 from 'A Lifetime Doing Nothing' by Ian McCrorie
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For many years I faithfully sat two hours a day. This was my formal meditation practice. Two hours a day is a lot of meditation, I thought. I was wrong. Two hours a day is a lot of practice, but it is not a lot of meditation. Meditation cannot be measured....

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2022
4 minutes 58 seconds

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A Lifetime Doing Nothing (Story 45 excerpt)

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Story 45 from 'A Lifetime Doing Nothing' by Ian McCrorie
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Without the ability to silently sit alone in a darkened room, we are destined to be a slave to our conditioned mind, reacting to self-imposed habitual preconditions, convinced that everything out there is awesome and everyone else is as happy as kings. So why, you wonder, am I so miserable? I have lost count of the number of times in a given day I start a sentence with...

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2022
4 minutes 03 seconds

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A Lifetime Doing Nothing (Story 44 excerpt)

podcasts@pariyatti.org (podcasts@pariyatti.org) — Wed, 12 Oct 2022 20:24:00 GMT

Story 44 from 'A Lifetime Doing Nothing' by Ian McCrorie
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Happiness is not something to pursue. Like the truth, happiness too is not out there somewhere. Chasing it is like a dog trying to catch its tail. Happiness has been hijacked by old habit patterns which have convinced us to look for it under the bright lights. We are so busy frantically...

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2022
4 minutes 37 seconds

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A Lifetime Doing Nothing (Story 43 excerpt)

podcasts@pariyatti.org (podcasts@pariyatti.org) — Sun, 09 Oct 2022 20:23:00 GMT

Story 43 from 'A Lifetime Doing Nothing' by Ian McCrorie
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The question remains, however, why is practice so difficult? To begin with, doing non-doing is by and of itself difficult because to be still and just watch goes against our very nature. This is especially true when...

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2022
5 minutes 01 seconds

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A Lifetime Doing Nothing (Story 42 excerpt)

podcasts@pariyatti.org (podcasts@pariyatti.org) — Wed, 05 Oct 2022 20:21:00 GMT

Story 42 from 'A Lifetime Doing Nothing' by Ian McCrorie
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In large stores in Korea there is a greeter at the front door. He or she bows and wishes you well and a good shopping experience. Koreans are used to this formal welcome. They walk by without...

narrated by Ian McCrorie
2022
2 minutes 00 seconds

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A Lifetime Doing Nothing (Story 41 excerpt)

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Story 41 from 'A Lifetime Doing Nothing' by Ian McCrorie
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You need to walk before you run. This much is certain. There is an old joke of a tourist lost in New York City who asked a passerby how to get to Carnegie Hall. He was told, “Practice, my boy, practice.” This process can appear to be slow going. This is quite normal, as the progress is incremental. (And meditation practice redefines incremental.) It can seem at times...

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2022
3 minutes 27 seconds

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A Lifetime Doing Nothing (Story 40 excerpt)

podcasts@pariyatti.org (podcasts@pariyatti.org) — Fri, 30 Sep 2022 20:11:00 GMT

Story 40 from 'A Lifetime Doing Nothing' by Ian McCrorie
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“You’ve got to learn your instrument. Then, you practice, practice, practice. And then, when you finally get up there on the bandstand, forget all that and just wail.” This was the great jazz saxophonist, Charlie Parker’s, musical lesson. But it...

narrated by Ian McCrorie
2022
3 minutes 15 seconds

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A Lifetime Doing Nothing (Story 39 excerpt)

podcasts@pariyatti.org (podcasts@pariyatti.org) — Fri, 23 Sep 2022 16:07:00 GMT

Story 39 from 'A Lifetime Doing Nothing' by Ian McCrorie
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My father would go apoplectic when he was near gum chewers. He would physically recoil as they mashed away in complete obliviousness to the consternation they were causing him. Though I didn’t understand the reason for his meltdowns, over time I absorbed his attitude. Each time some unsuspecting gum smacker tried to engage my father in a conversation, I could feel my father do a slow burn. Like a tuning fork hearing a note played on a piano, I would commiserate with him, and my habit patterning would...

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A Lifetime Doing Nothing (Story 38 excerpt)

podcasts@pariyatti.org (podcasts@pariyatti.org) — Fri, 16 Sep 2022 23:09:00 GMT

Story 38 from 'A Lifetime Doing Nothing' by Ian McCrorie
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The Buddha was also the first neuroscientist. He confirmed neuroplasticity, the mind's ability to change by restructuring itself at the neurological level. The Buddha altered his mind to such an extent that he transcended the final two complex, problematic stages of the thinking process. He declared himself enlightened, which is to say free from the shackles of greed, hatred, and delusion. This was proof positive, as James Olds, a professor of neuroscience, said, that the mind is not just plastic but “very plastic.” So much so that...

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2022
5 minutes 56 seconds

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A Lifetime Doing Nothing (Story 37 excerpt)

podcasts@pariyatti.org (podcasts@pariyatti.org) — Fri, 09 Sep 2022 23:07:00 GMT

Story 37 from 'A Lifetime Doing Nothing' by Ian McCrorie
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The Buddha was more scientist than spiritual seeker. He wanted to understand human suffering using himself, his body, and his mind as his laboratory. After many years of ascetic practices, while sitting under a pipal tree in Bihar in northern India, he took a vow not to move until his experiment gave up an answer. As dawn broke so did the yoke that tied him to this earthly realm. Enlightenment. He was now awakened. He was now the Buddha. The one who knows. And what does he ask of us? Reverence? Obedience? Blind devotion? Not at all. He asks...

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2022
6 minutes 16 seconds

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A Lifetime Doing Nothing (Story 36 excerpt)

podcasts@pariyatti.org (podcasts@pariyatti.org) — Fri, 02 Sep 2022 23:04:00 GMT

Story 36 from 'A Lifetime Doing Nothing' by Ian McCrorie
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One night a man lost his keys. He looked for them under a street lamp. A friend walked by, saw him looking for something, and asked him what he lost.

“My keys,” he replied.

“Oh,” said his friend. “Where did you lose them?”

“Over there. In the woods,” came the reply.

Stunned, the friend asked, “But why are you looking for them here?”

“The light is much brighter here!” the man replied.

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2022
4 minutes 09 seconds

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A Lifetime Doing Nothing (Story 35 excerpt)

podcasts@pariyatti.org (podcasts@pariyatti.org) — Fri, 26 Aug 2022 23:01:00 GMT

Story 35 from 'A Lifetime Doing Nothing' by Ian McCrorie
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For my father’s entire life, I was not a parent. In his presence I reverted to a child-like sense of entitlement. His world revolved around me and this, I thought, was how it should be. I had my family after he had passed away. And it was only as my boys got older and I dealt with all the practical aspects of child-rearing that I fully appreciated all my father had done. I loved him all the more and grieved his...

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2022
3 minutes 26 seconds

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A Lifetime Doing Nothing (Story 34 excerpt)

podcasts@pariyatti.org (podcasts@pariyatti.org) — Fri, 19 Aug 2022 22:59:00 GMT

Story 34 from 'A Lifetime Doing Nothing' by Ian McCrorie
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Nature doesn't lie. It acts according to natural laws. And human nature, too, doesn't lie. It plays out as a series of causes and effects. If the inputs are negative, stifling, abusive, or spiteful, the immediate effects may be unpleasant. Even if there is no evidence of any negative aftermath, in time, inauspicious acts invariably lead to a myriad of unintended and unforeseen negative circumstances. Rare is it to find a criminal who doesn’t feel remorse about his deeds and who is not also suffering ten-fold due to substance abuse, turning as he would to...

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2022
4 minutes 37 seconds

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The Buddha's Teaching on Non-violence by Paul R. Fleischman

podcasts@pariyatti.org (podcasts@pariyatti.org) — Fri, 19 Aug 2022 21:46:00 GMT

This talk by Paul R. Fleischman was given at the 2022 virtual conference by The Association of Buddhist Care and Counseling. Paul's talk is titled "The Buddha's Teaching on Non-violence" based on his book The Buddha Taught Nonviolence, Not Pacifism.

Paul R. Fleischman
video host: John Freese
2022
20 minutes

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A Lifetime Doing Nothing (Story 33 excerpt)

podcasts@pariyatti.org (podcasts@pariyatti.org) — Fri, 12 Aug 2022 22:58:00 GMT

Story 33 from 'A Lifetime Doing Nothing' by Ian McCrorie
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A healthy component of the practice is to stay awake to encroaching spiritual materialism. This danger begins to raise its head after you think of yourself as an experienced practitioner. You may judge your practice as quite advanced. You pat yourself on the back. You start acquiring compliments. Thoughts that you might teach someday may flutter through your consciousness. Don’t indulge in these meanderings. Keep an eye on them as you would a spot of crabgrass on an otherwise pristine lawn.

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2022
3 minutes 15 seconds

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A Lifetime Doing Nothing (Story 32 excerpt)

podcasts@pariyatti.org (podcasts@pariyatti.org) — Fri, 05 Aug 2022 22:55:00 GMT

Story 32 from 'A Lifetime Doing Nothing' by Ian McCrorie
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An abscessed tooth forced me out of my hut and into Bombay, as it was known then, to see a dentist. I had his name on a piece of paper and was assured he was ektampukkha, “a cheap but best” dentist. No one was in the waiting room, and he said he could take me right away, two facts that should have warned me to be careful. Once I was in the chair, he quickly concluded my tooth was...

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2022
3 minutes 25 seconds

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A Lifetime Doing Nothing (Story 31 excerpt)

podcasts@pariyatti.org (podcasts@pariyatti.org) — Fri, 29 Jul 2022 22:51:00 GMT

Story 31 from 'A Lifetime Doing Nothing' by Ian McCrorie
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I had an aunt who lived on a forty-acre estate west of Toronto. The manor house was an Elizabethan structure with separate breakfast and dining rooms, a full maid's quarters, apple orchards, and a forest with deer and other wildlife. In the late afternoon we would dress for tea and retire to the screened porch off the living room. My aunt would put Mozart on the hi-fi, and we would eat cucumber sandwiches. The tea service was...

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2022
3 minutes 19 seconds

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A Lifetime Doing Nothing (Story 30 excerpt)

podcasts@pariyatti.org (podcasts@pariyatti.org) — Fri, 22 Jul 2022 22:32:00 GMT

Story 30 from 'A Lifetime Doing Nothing' by Ian McCrorie
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When you find yourself in a hole, first stop digging. Trite but true, when we find ourselves in this predicament, we need to lay down the activities that led us to be that deep in the hole. When I found myself in an alcohol-induced hole, I let all the alcohol-related activities go. These included for a time even good friends...

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2022
3 minutes 37 seconds

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A Lifetime Doing Nothing (Story 29 excerpt)

podcasts@pariyatti.org (podcasts@pariyatti.org) — Fri, 15 Jul 2022 19:55:00 GMT

Story 29 from 'A Lifetime Doing Nothing' by Ian McCrorie
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When the venerable Thai teacher, Ajahn Chah,was asked what technique of meditation he taught, he replied frankly, “I teach frustration.” Doing non-doing can be in itself frustrating, but in the hands of a meditation master it can be nuclear.

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2022
4 minutes 31 seconds

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A Lifetime Doing Nothing (Story 28 excerpt)

podcasts@pariyatti.org (podcasts@pariyatti.org) — Fri, 08 Jul 2022 19:54:00 GMT

Story 28 from 'A Lifetime Doing Nothing' by Ian McCrorie
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In India they trap monkeys with a bamboo cage. The cage has a small opening just large enough for the monkey's hand to slip through. They slide a banana through the hole and wait. The monkey smells the banana and twists his hand through the hole and grabs the banana. Success. Or so he thinks, until...

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2022
4 minutes 31 seconds

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A Lifetime Doing Nothing (Story 27 excerpt)

podcasts@pariyatti.org (podcasts@pariyatti.org) — Fri, 01 Jul 2022 19:51:00 GMT

Story 27 from 'A Lifetime Doing Nothing' by Ian McCrorie
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My father fought in WW2. This entailed sleeping in drafty and cold English castles on camp cots, followed by living in bivouacs as the regiment made its way from Normandy up the coast to Arnhem in Holland. He suffered from chronic back pain the rest of his life. He had his throat slit by an enemy agent in London,...

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2022
4 minutes 18 seconds

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A Lifetime Doing Nothing (Story 26 excerpt)

podcasts@pariyatti.org (podcasts@pariyatti.org) — Fri, 24 Jun 2022 19:46:00 GMT

Story 26 from 'A Lifetime Doing Nothing' by Ian McCrorie
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Trauma can exact a pernicious hold on our mind. Victims often seek help in the form of group therapy or individual counseling. Members of Alcoholics Anonymous admit to feeling helpless in the face of their inability to overcome their addictions. They speak of themselves as survivors. They are to be commended for facing their trauma, seeing it for what it is.

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2022
4 minutes 06 seconds

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A Lifetime Doing Nothing (Story 25 excerpt)

podcasts@pariyatti.org (podcasts@pariyatti.org) — Fri, 17 Jun 2022 19:43:00 GMT

Story 25 from 'A Lifetime Doing Nothing' by Ian McCrorie
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Mindfulness is very popular these days. Not long ago it made the cover of Time magazine. Library of Congress lists 4,063 titles that contain the word “mindful,” including Mindful Golf and Mindfulness and Murder. And therein lies the rub. The word has been commodified and monetized to such an extent as to obliterate its original meaning.

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2022
3 minutes 13 seconds

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A Lifetime Doing Nothing (Story 24 excerpt)

podcasts@pariyatti.org (podcasts@pariyatti.org) — Fri, 10 Jun 2022 19:42:00 GMT

Story 24 from 'A Lifetime Doing Nothing' by Ian McCrorie
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As a child, I did not seek out thrills or danger of any kind. I did not enjoy games or contests or practical jokes. I hated costume parties. I’d rather go for a walk with my friends or sit and talk and have tea. Even today, I really don’t need fun.

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2022
3 minutes 13 seconds

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A Lifetime Doing Nothing (Story 23 excerpt)

podcasts@pariyatti.org (podcasts@pariyatti.org) — Fri, 03 Jun 2022 19:38:00 GMT

Story 23 from 'A Lifetime Doing Nothing' by Ian McCrorie
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“We are going to die, and that makes us the lucky ones. Most people are never going to die because they are never going to be born. The potential people who could have been here in my place but who will in fact never see the light of day outnumber the sand grains of Arabia.” So wrote Richard Dawkins in Unweaving the Rainbow.

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2022
2 minutes 41 seconds

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A Lifetime Doing Nothing (Story 22 excerpt)

podcasts@pariyatti.org (podcasts@pariyatti.org) — Fri, 27 May 2022 19:36:00 GMT

Story 22 from 'A Lifetime Doing Nothing' by Ian McCrorie
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To repeat, all man’s problems stem from an inability to sit alone in a room in silence. However, Pascal omitted to say that sitting alone in silence in such a room is not easy. It can be so difficult, in fact, that it unbalances the mind.

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2022
6 minutes 19 seconds

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A Lifetime Doing Nothing (Story 21 excerpt)

podcasts@pariyatti.org (podcasts@pariyatti.org) — Fri, 20 May 2022 19:33:00 GMT

Story 21 from 'A Lifetime Doing Nothing' by Ian McCrorie
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Marcus Aurelius, the great Stoic philosopher, makes it clear how important it is to be present: “The longest and shortest lives amount to the same, for the present moment is equal to everyone.” Just one mindful moment is all you need to stand firm against the habitual temptations to engage, to follow, to blindly react to greed, hatred, and delusion.

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2022
4 minutes 19 seconds

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A Lifetime Doing Nothing (Story 20 excerpt)

podcasts@pariyatti.org (podcasts@pariyatti.org) — Fri, 13 May 2022 23:00:00 GMT

Story 20 from 'A Lifetime Doing Nothing' by Ian McCrorie
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A few years after living as a monk in West Virginia, I stayed a while at Wat Pah Nanachat near the Mekong River in Ubon in Thailand. This was the real deal. A forest monastery with dhuthanga monks who adopted thirteen additional vows, including taking only one meal a day and practicing...

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2022
5 minutes 34 seconds

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A Lifetime Doing Nothing (Story 19 excerpt)

podcasts@pariyatti.org (podcasts@pariyatti.org) — Fri, 06 May 2022 23:00:00 GMT

Story 19 from 'A Lifetime Doing Nothing' by Ian McCrorie
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I am waiting for Thich Nhat Hanh to write a follow-up book, How to Listen, to address the proliferation of PMPs (personal music players). Many young people walk everywhere, earbudded to all the music ever created, oblivious to the sounds around them and within them. They drown out...

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2022
3 minutes 59 seconds

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A Lifetime Doing Nothing (Story 18 excerpt)

podcasts@pariyatti.org (podcasts@pariyatti.org) — Fri, 29 Apr 2022 23:00:00 GMT

Story 18 from 'A Lifetime Doing Nothing' by Ian McCrorie
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Be here now. Just three words. Be here now. The oft-heard teaching is eminently simple but absolutely profound. Happiness can only be found in this moment, in the here and now. Living in the past will inevitably...

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2022
3 minutes 33 seconds

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A Lifetime Doing Nothing (Story 17 excerpt)

podcasts@pariyatti.org (podcasts@pariyatti.org) — Fri, 22 Apr 2022 23:00:00 GMT

Story 17 from 'A Lifetime Doing Nothing' by Ian McCrorie
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This story is from Toni Packer, the late, much-venerated Zen teacher. A student asks a Zen master for some principles of the highest wisdom.

The master replies, “Attention.”

“Is that it?” asks the student. “Nothing to add?”

The teacher says,...

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2022
3 minutes 25 seconds

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A Lifetime Doing Nothing (Story 16 excerpt)

podcasts@pariyatti.org (podcasts@pariyatti.org) — Fri, 15 Apr 2022 23:00:00 GMT

Story 16 from 'A Lifetime Doing Nothing' by Ian McCrorie
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Watch a baby for a while and you can't help but see how hard they are working. They are looking out on the world, trying to make sense of it all. They focus on this and then they focus on that. They react, sometimes with tears, ofttimes with a smile, indications that they have assessed the situation and found it wanting or fulfilling. When you place them on...

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2022
5 minutes 13 seconds

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A Lifetime Doing Nothing (Story 15 excerpt)

podcasts@pariyatti.org (podcasts@pariyatti.org) — Fri, 08 Apr 2022 23:00:00 GMT

Story 15 from 'A Lifetime Doing Nothing' by Ian McCrorie
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The Pirahã natives live in the upper Amazon rainforest. Daniel Everett is one of only three linguists who can speak their language. He lived with them for many years and discovered through their language that they appear to be the only people on Earth who live in the here and now. They are fully...

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2022
3 minutes 31 seconds

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A Lifetime Doing Nothing (Story 14 excerpt)

podcasts@pariyatti.org (podcasts@pariyatti.org) — Fri, 01 Apr 2022 23:00:00 GMT

Story 14 from 'A Lifetime Doing Nothing' by Ian McCrorie
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Many of us are busy with the business of being busy, and Knausgaard was no exception. His writing explores the busyness of his mind, especially with how he deals with his family. He explores the conditioned mind with objective honesty. Being busy can often be an affirmation of our status...

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2022
3 minutes 38 seconds

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A Lifetime Doing Nothing (Story 13 excerpt)

podcasts@pariyatti.org (podcasts@pariyatti.org) — Fri, 25 Mar 2022 23:00:00 GMT

Story 13 from 'A Lifetime Doing Nothing' by Ian McCrorie
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Norwegian author Karl Ove Knausgaard wrote in "My Struggle" of a time when he was very sick. He couldn't move, and he lay on the sofa the whole day feeling miserable. His inability to move meant...

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2022
3 minutes 49 seconds

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Pariyatti Presents... Debra Barrett - Realizing Change Video Series

podcasts@pariyatti.org (podcasts@pariyatti.org) — Tue, 22 Mar 2022 21:44:00 GMT

This series is inspired by a book we first published over a decade ago, entitled Realizing Change: Vipassana Meditation in Action (by Ian Hetherington). In Realizing Change we are given access to voices from around the world, who share in-depth accounts of their apprehensions before undertaking a ten-day course in Vipassana, their experiences during the course, and the subtle, yet profound, experience of change activated by the practice of Vipassana. People from every walk of life, country, culture, and age have found Vipassana a steady anchor in the gale-force winds of change that buffet us. By facing reality head-on through direct observation—rather than reacting—impermanence itself becomes the very medium of transformation.

Along the same lines, in this new series of Pariyatti Presents… events, Vipassana meditators come and share their personal stories.

In this recording, fellow meditator Debra Barrett talks about the positive impact Vipassana Meditation has had on her life. Debra does not shy away from serious topics such as substance addiction and the difficulties Indigenous people face, and we are positive you will find her story captivating, educational, inspiring.

Interview with Debra Barrett
interviewer: Sheldon Klein
2022
50 minutes

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A Lifetime Doing Nothing (Story 12 excerpt)

podcasts@pariyatti.org (podcasts@pariyatti.org) — Fri, 18 Mar 2022 23:00:00 GMT

Story 12 from 'A Lifetime Doing Nothing' by Ian McCrorie
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A man walked into his doctor's office and told him he was not doing well. He was in pain all over. “Everywhere I touch, it hurts,” he said. The good doctor gave him a battery of tests,...

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2022
5 minutes 44 seconds

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A Lifetime Doing Nothing (Story 11 excerpt)

podcasts@pariyatti.org (podcasts@pariyatti.org) — Sat, 12 Mar 2022 00:00:00 GMT

Story 11 from 'A Lifetime Doing Nothing' by Ian McCrorie
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If dukkha, “suffering” or “unsatisfactoriness,” is the first noble truth, wherein lies its cause? The Buddha discovered that the root of suffering lies in the human tendency to involve ourselves in...

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2022
2 minutes 51 seconds

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Pariyatti Presents... In the Spirit of the Buddha - an interview with Paul R. and Susan K. Fleischman

podcasts@pariyatti.org (podcasts@pariyatti.org) — Tue, 08 Mar 2022 16:34:00 GMT

In the Spirit of the Buddha
an interview with Paul R. and Susan K. Fleischman.

Vipasana teachers in the tradition of S.N. Goenka, Susan K. And Paul R. Fleischman have been walking on the path of Dhamma for many decades. Paul has published various titles relating to the teachings of the Buddha and Vipassana meditation. Paul's work often bridges his experience as a seeker and meditator and his professional background in science—psychology, biology, and medicine.

The topic of this Pariyatti Presents... event of February 27 is a book that Susan and Paul have worked on together. It is a collection of prose poems entitled In the Spirit of the Buddha.

In the Spirit of the Buddha is aimed to inspire, rather than to represent the full span of the teaching of the Buddha. All compositions combine the Buddha’s thoughts with contemporary phrasing. They cannot be considered direct quotes from the Pāli Canon, because the authors have worked only with English language translations and combined similar passages, or modified the language for readability. At the same time, the authors emphasize that these words are not original to them, because they are in the spirit of the Buddha. They are sparks from the campfire that continue to glow in the dark.

Paul R. and Susan K. Fleischman
2022
1 hours 33 minutes

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A Lifetime Doing Nothing (Story 10 excerpt)

podcasts@pariyatti.org (podcasts@pariyatti.org) — Sat, 05 Mar 2022 00:00:00 GMT

Story 10 from 'A Lifetime Doing Nothing' by Ian McCrorie
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The yin-yang symbol is a graphic illustration of the human condition. Light represents happiness, gain, good health, etc., and darkness represents unhappiness, loss, poor health, etc....

narrated by Ian McCrorie
2022
3 minutes 04 seconds

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A Lifetime Doing Nothing (Story 9 excerpt)

podcasts@pariyatti.org (podcasts@pariyatti.org) — Sat, 26 Feb 2022 00:00:00 GMT

Story 9 from 'A Lifetime Doing Nothing' by Ian McCrorie
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Two and a half thousand years ago, the Buddha summed up his discovery as “mind matters most.” Buddha, meaning “the awakened one,” is an honorific for Siddhartha Gautama,...

narrated by Ian McCrorie
2022
4 minutes 44 seconds

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A Lifetime Doing Nothing (Story 8 excerpt)

podcasts@pariyatti.org (podcasts@pariyatti.org) — Sat, 19 Feb 2022 00:00:00 GMT

Story 8 from 'A Lifetime Doing Nothing' by Ian McCrorie
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So that’s it. It is really that simple. Sit alone in a room quietly. Keeping the spine as straight as possible will help to keep lethargy at bay. At first it is normal to feel somewhat self-conscious,...

narrated by Ian McCrorie
2022
5 minutes 12 seconds

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A Lifetime Doing Nothing (Story 7 excerpt)

podcasts@pariyatti.org (podcasts@pariyatti.org) — Sat, 12 Feb 2022 00:00:00 GMT

Story 7 from 'A Lifetime Doing Nothing' by Ian McCrorie
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If it is not already clear, it cannot be emphasized often enough that non-doing is not lethargy. Nor is it apathy, sloth, or laziness. It is not complacency or inactivity. It is not relaxation or spacing out. It is, however,...

narrated by Ian McCrorie
2022
3 minutes 26 seconds

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A Lifetime Doing Nothing (Story 6 excerpt)

podcasts@pariyatti.org (podcasts@pariyatti.org) — Sat, 05 Feb 2022 00:00:00 GMT

Story 6 from 'A Lifetime Doing Nothing' by Ian McCrorie
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My second epiphany took place after university, when I was teaching grade eight. I was on the front line, trying to hold the raging hormones of thirty-six students at bay long enough to stuff some important knowledge into their overly coiffed little heads....

narrated by Ian McCrorie
2022
3 minutes 45 seconds

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A Lifetime Doing Nothing (Story 5 excerpt)

podcasts@pariyatti.org (podcasts@pariyatti.org) — Sat, 29 Jan 2022 00:00:00 GMT

Story 5 from 'A Lifetime Doing Nothing' by Ian McCrorie
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My first revelation occurred on a Friday evening just before my first year of university. I had the book list I needed for my courses, and a friend drove me to the uni bookstore. Books in hand,...

narrated by Ian McCrorie
2022
2 minutes 33 seconds

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A Lifetime Doing Nothing (Story 4 excerpt)

podcasts@pariyatti.org (podcasts@pariyatti.org) — Sat, 22 Jan 2022 00:00:00 GMT

Story 4 from 'A Lifetime Doing Nothing' by Ian McCrorie
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Because I had seldom, if ever, sat quietly in a room alone, the irony was that I thought my mind was akin to a well-oiled Bianchi racing bike. Of course, I was totally deluded. I had equated intelligence, literacy, strong opinions, and popularity with a beautiful mind—a Bianchi, if you will. In fact,...

narrated by Ian McCrorie
2022
5 minutes 01 seconds

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A Lifetime Doing Nothing (Story 3 excerpt)

podcasts@pariyatti.org (podcasts@pariyatti.org) — Sat, 15 Jan 2022 00:00:00 GMT

Story 3 from 'A Lifetime Doing Nothing' by Ian McCrorie
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Self-introspection is not the strongest attribute of Homo sapiens. Our forefathers survived primarily because they were men of action, fleeing or fighting as the situation demanded. And they hunted in groups, perhaps the only time they were quiet. Sound familiar?...

narrated by Ian McCrorie
2022
3 minutes 50 seconds

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A Lifetime Doing Nothing (Story 2 excerpt)

podcasts@pariyatti.org (podcasts@pariyatti.org) — Sat, 08 Jan 2022 00:00:00 GMT

Story 2 from 'A Lifetime Doing Nothing' by Ian McCrorie
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Blaise Pascal (1623–1662), a French mathematician and writer, once declared that “All of humanity’s problems stem from man’s inability to sit quietly in a room alone.” This is the most graphic summation of the conundrum of the human condition...

narrated by Ian McCrorie
2022
3 minutes 04 seconds

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A Lifetime Doing Nothing (Story 1 excerpt)

podcasts@pariyatti.org (podcasts@pariyatti.org) — Fri, 31 Dec 2021 15:30:00 GMT

Story 1 from 'A Lifetime Doing Nothing' by Ian McCrorie
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I left my small hut in the tribal area of the Western Ghats of Maharashtra early one morning to go for a run through the countryside. As I came over a small rise in the road, I found myself staring at a herd of water buffalo....

narrated by Ian McCrorie
2022
2 minutes 16 seconds

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Pariyatti Presents... Cultivating Inner Peace - an interview with Paul R. Fleischman

podcasts@pariyatti.org (podcasts@pariyatti.org) — Fri, 17 Dec 2021 23:34:00 GMT

Cultivating Inner Peace an interview with Paul R. Fleischman
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Paul Fleischman, psychiatrist, author and long-time meditator, writes about the psychology, wisdom and poetry of those who have inspired him in his personal quest for harmony and happiness.

The learnable qualities of peaceful living are brought into focus by examining the lives of diverse exemplars such as Mahatma Gandhi, Walt Whitman, Henry David Thoreau, the Buddha, John Muir, Scott and Helen Nearing, and Rabindranath Tagore. His ultimate example is an autobiographical account of his own experience with his practice of Vipassana.

The final chapter of the book is a compelling appeal to all people to walk the path of peace as a way of healing the earth itself. This new paperback edition includes a new introduction and a foreword by Professor William Radice, noted Tagore scholar and poet.

Paul R. Fleischman
2021
2 hours 02 minutes

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Pariyatti Presents... Deepening Insight: An Interview with Bhikkhu Anālayo

podcasts@pariyatti.org (podcasts@pariyatti.org) — Fri, 17 Dec 2021 21:18:00 GMT

A discussion with Bhikkhu Anālayo about his book "Deepening Insight: Teachings on vedanā in the Early Buddhist Discourses."

Deepening Insight presents a selection of passages from the early Buddhist discourses that provide perspectives on the cultivation of liberating insight into vedanā, sensation, feeling, or feeling tone. For meditators, such passages can be of considerable help as a reference point for deepening insight.

A metaphor that can offer considerable help when facing vedanās describes bubbles arising on the surface of a pond during rain...they arise and soon enough burst and disappear. Contemplation of the changing nature of vedanā provides a firm foundation for the growth of insight into not self. Such insight proceeds through successive layers of the mind's ingrained habit of self-referentiality. Based on relinquishing the explicit view of affirming the existence of a permanent self, increasingly subtler traces of conceit and possessiveness need to be successively overcome until with full awakening all selfing in any form will be removed for good.

Interview and Q&A with Bhikkhu Anālayo
interviewer: Marta Van Patten
2021
90 minutes

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Pariyatti Presents... An Interview with Manish Chopra, author of "The Equanimous Mind (2nd Edition)"

podcasts@pariyatti.org (podcasts@pariyatti.org) — Fri, 10 Dec 2021 22:59:00 GMT

The Equanimous Mind by Manish Chopra
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The Equanimous Mind (2nd Edition) chronicles the author's first ten-day Vipassana meditation camp experience at the end of 2010 and the life-changing impact it has had on his personal and professional life since that time.

This new second edition comes at an important milestone in Manish's journey as ten years have passed since that first ten-day retreat. A new epilogue in this 10th anniversary edition has been expanded and enriched with updates on his progress since the journey began a decade ago.

Stepping forward with an act of daring confession, Manish Chopra tells us in detail what was wrong with his life, and how, by learning Vipassana meditation, he reoriented every waking moment to be in greater harmony with himself, life, and truth.

The Equanimous Mind has a particular heartwarming quality because of the earnestness with which the author seeks to grow into being the best possible person he can be. Many people will benefit from this volume of clear sentences, deep feelings, and important messages.

Out of gratitude for the benefits the author has received from the practice of Vipassana meditation, he will be donating the proceeds from this book to spreading awareness about the technique, so that others can draw value from it as well.

Interview with Manish Chopra
2021
1 hours 16 minutes

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Pariyatti Presents... A Lifetime Doing Nothing: Tales, Teachings, and Testimonials

podcasts@pariyatti.org (podcasts@pariyatti.org) — Fri, 03 Dec 2021 23:24:00 GMT

A Lifetime Doing Nothing by Ian McCrorie
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"In my experience, all our problems do indeed stem from this hyperactive and delusional thinking we have acquired over time.

There is a way to eradicate the light-speed, blind reactions and the habitual confusion. The way is very simple. It boils down to just two words: do nothing. That s it. Do nothing. Sit quietly in a room alone and do nothing. Watch the monkey mind and do not try to fix it or eliminate it or drown it out or engage it.

This is doing non-doing. Observe the mind, on autopilot as usual, screaming editorial comments from the sidelines like some frenzied play-by-play announcer and do nothing about it. Don't turn the monologue into a dialogue. Do nothing. 'Nothing to see here, folks. Let s keep it moving.'"

interview with Ian McCrorie
2021
1 hours 53 minutes

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Pariyatti Presents... Vipassana Meditation and the Scientific Worldview (2nd Edition)

podcasts@pariyatti.org (podcasts@pariyatti.org) — Fri, 26 Nov 2021 23:09:00 GMT

Vipassana Meditation and the Scientific Worldview (2nd Edition) by Paul R. Fleischman
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We have lived in an era during which the spirituality intrinsic to science has become obvious.

The universe is not random. It contains patterns and paths. This is called the information-state of the universe, and it organizes the materials and energies that form our bodies and minds. We are each microcosms; downloaded into our small selves are a vast array of directives and limits, the laws of science, that govern stars as well as our hearts and minds. We can gain access to some of the wisdom of this universal, lawful reality through meditation. As we observe our body sensations with equanimity, we come in contact with basic laws of physics, like entropy, or the decay of aggregates over time, and we also encounter basic laws of psychology, like the fact that social love, Mettā, leaves us happier than anger or fear. We may become self-balanced to face contingencies.

It is science, not mysticism or religion, that reveals the value of Vipassana as a vestibule to ultimate realities, and highlights it as a practical guide to the psychology of well-lived lives. We are each unique snowflakes, patterns and lace, melting in the cosmic storm. We arise and pass inside a universe, a web, a Dhamma. We become aware of the scriptures that are inscribed inside us and that guide our wellbeing.

by Paul R. Fleischman
2021
2 hours 03 minutes

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Five Mental Hindrances and Their Conquest

podcasts@pariyatti.org (podcasts@pariyatti.org) — Fri, 19 Nov 2021 23:05:00 GMT

Five Mental Hindrances and Their Conquest by Nyanaponika Thera
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This is the audiobook version of the Wheel Publications booklet Wheel Publication No. 26, The Five Mental Hindrances, compiled and translated by the venerable scholar and founder of the Buddhist Publication Society, Nyanaponika Thera. It is a compilation of selected texts from the Pali Canon and its commentaries on the five obstacles to progress on the spiritual path.

Narrated by Parag Sampat
2015
1 hours 16 minutes

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Vipassana Meditation Talk by Patrick Given-Wilson

podcasts@pariyatti.org (podcasts@pariyatti.org) — Wed, 03 Nov 2021 16:59:00 GMT

Vipassana Meditation Talk by Patrick Given-Wilson
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This is an introductory talk about Vipassana meditation as taught by S. N. Goenka as presented online by Patrick Given-Wilson. This talk was hosted by the Stanton Library, North Council in October of 2021.

Presented by Patrick Given-Wilson
2021
43 minutes

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Inspiration from Enlightened Nuns

podcasts@pariyatti.org (podcasts@pariyatti.org) — Mon, 16 Aug 2021 17:30:00 GMT

Inspiration from Enlightened Nuns by Susan Elbaum Jootla
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In this booklet we will be exploring poems composed by the Arahat bhikkhunis or enlightened Buddhist nuns of old, looking at these poems as springs of inspiration for contemporary Buddhists. Most of the poems we will consider come from the Therigatha, a small section of the vast Pali Canon.

From the poems of the enlightened nuns of the Buddha's time contemporary followers of the Noble Eightfold Path can receive a great deal of instruction, help and encouragement. These verses can assist us in developing morality, concentration and wisdom, the three sections of the path. With their aid we will be able to work more effectively towards eliminating our mental defilements and towards finding lasting peace and happiness.

Narrated by Sophia Ojha
2016
2 hours 4 minutes

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The Joy Hidden in Sorrow: Two Talks on Death and Dying

podcasts@pariyatti.org (podcasts@pariyatti.org) — Tue, 10 Aug 2021 14:37:00 GMT

The Joy Hidden in Sorrow by Ayyā Medhānandī
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Excerpt from The Joy Hidden in Sorrow by Ayyā Medhānandī

In our relationships with each other, with our families, we can begin to use wisdom as our refuge. That doesn’t mean that we don’t love, that we don’t grieve for our loved ones. It means that we’re not dependent on our perceptions of our mother and father, children or close friends. We’re not dependent on them being who we think they are, we no longer believe that our happiness depends on their love for us, or their not leaving, not dying. We’re able to surrender to the rhythm of life and death, to the natural law, the Dhamma of birth, ageing, sickness, and death.

Excerpt from The Way Beyond Fear

What would it be like if we never got old? What if we never got sick, or if we never died? Could we really love each other if we were here forever? Through our own mortality we learn to love; through our darkest suffering, we are taken beyond suffering; by being exposed to our own extinction, we can realise that within us which is indestructible. Trusting each moment, even in the midst of the most terrifying conditions, we awaken in ourselves the possibility to live with complete trust. We grow more vulnerable and, at the same time, more fearless, not taking refuge in sorrow. We learn how to live, and how to die, and how to embrace our joy and our pain.

Narrated by Avia Rose Livni
2020
50 minutes

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The Elimination of Anger

podcasts@pariyatti.org (podcasts@pariyatti.org) — Wed, 30 Jun 2021 13:59:00 GMT

The Elimination of Anger by Ven. K. Piyatissa Thera
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This title contains two stories retold from Buddhist texts, The Reviler and The Anger-eating Demon.

Narrated by Sophia Ojha
2017
31 minutes

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The Development of the Will and Perfection of Energy

podcasts@pariyatti.org (podcasts@pariyatti.org) — Sat, 19 Jun 2021 18:03:00 GMT

The Development of the Will and Perfection of Energy by Wladyslaw Misiewicz and Shantideva
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Excerpt from The Development of Will by Wladyslaw Misiewicz

“No force in the human system can be properly used unless it is rightly directed. As the will is the only factor in man that has the power to direct or control, a thorough development of the will becomes absolutely necessary in order to have a clear understanding of its application under every circumstance.”

From Perfection of Energy by Shantideva

“Having become patient [through practising the Perfection of Forbearance], one should cultivate energetic effort; for it is by effort that Enlightenment is gained. Just as there is no movement without wind, there is no performance of merit without energy.”

Narrated by Judy Swift
2020
27 minutes

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Buddhist Therapy

podcasts@pariyatti.org (podcasts@pariyatti.org) — Thu, 20 May 2021 22:07:00 GMT

Buddhist Therapy by Ruth Walshe
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"Is Buddhism closely related to psychology? To some extent, yes - but with one tremendous difference: While psychology helps you to understand yourself intellectually and, at best emotionally, Buddhism helps you to get beyond the intellect to the actual experience of life itself. That's why applied Buddhism goes so much deeper than any school of psychology can ever claim to do…"

Narrated by Judy Swift
2018
42 minutes

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An Exhortation and Self-image or Self-knowledge

podcasts@pariyatti.org (podcasts@pariyatti.org) — Fri, 30 Apr 2021 17:07:00 GMT

An Exhortation and Self-image or Self-knowledge Two Dhamma Talks by Ayya Khema
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Let go of all self-images, of all ideations, of all hopes and plans. Then you can dwell in this particular moment—and no one can take that away from you. It can’t disappear, or be broken, or get lost. It just is. Security lies in the simple fact that in essence one has nothing and one is nothing.

Narrated by Kalvin Kochhar
2020
40 minutes

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The Buddha—A Unique Teacher

podcasts@pariyatti.org (podcasts@pariyatti.org) — Wed, 17 Mar 2021 13:14:00 GMT

The Buddha—A Unique Teacher
from Bodhi Leaf No. 36 by Francis Story

History has produced many great figures, but none in this present cycle or time as impressive and memorable as that of Siddhattha Gotama, the Sakyan prince who became the world’s greatest spiritual guide. He was unique as a personality, and unique as a teacher. There have been countless Enlightened Ones before him and there will be more, as long as saṃsāra endures, but he is the only one of whom we have actual historical knowledge, and his life has been a source of wonder and inspiration for more than twenty centuries. It continues to be so today.

Narrated by Sanjeev Kumar
2021
37 minutes

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Why the Buddha Did Not Preach to a Hungry Man

podcasts@pariyatti.org (podcasts@pariyatti.org) — Wed, 10 Mar 2021 03:13:00 GMT

Why the Buddha Did Not Preach to a Hungry Man
from Bodhi Leaf No. 121 by Louis van Loon

What makes one man poor and another rich is not only a question of material possessions, how much they consume or the extent to which they are able to satisfy their cravings. This is determined largely by the manner in which they subjectively experience and psychologically evaluate a feeling of well-being in the context of the environment in which they happen to be situated. Indeed, “poverty” and “affluence” are largely relative terms: quantitatively, a well-to-do member of a primitive Bushman society is still desperately poor compared with an urbanised African who may well own a radio, a guitar, a good suit and some cattle at his homeland kraal. He, however, is appallingly destitute when his lifestyle is contrasted with that of a white artisan who, in turn, envies the earning capacity—and everything that goes with it—of a Johannesburg business executive who, however, may well earn— and be able to afford only as much as a New York dockworker.

Narrated by Judy Swift
2020
50 minutes

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We Are Everywhere (from Cultivating Inner Peace)

podcasts@pariyatti.org (podcasts@pariyatti.org) — Mon, 15 Feb 2021 20:33:00 GMT

Chapter 28 - We Are Everywhere
from Cultivating Inner Peace by Paul R. Fleischman, M.D.

Solutions to the new, crowded, interconnected era will not be just technological but spiritual. They will embrace sorrow for what each individual life is not, for without conscious awareness of the sorrow that is intrinsic to individuality, there will be no possible solution to group self aggrandizing aggression and the plagues of externalizing blame that have characterized organized religions and nation-states. I prefer to meet people covered with tears rather than those holding a fistful of complaints.

Whether humankind U-turns away from dysplastic growth toward peace or not, I have—and you have—the option to live the best possible life. Inner peace is already within you, waiting to be opened. Cultivating inner peace will make you happier and more resilient and practical, able to face the difficulties of your personal death and human communal confusion head-on. It will open you to realizations that exceed the pragmatic, so that you will enter the stream of peace that is always invisibly flowing in and around you. Engaged in the world most helpfully, you will become an internal habitue of a place beyond the wind, the abode of peace.

Dr. Paul Fleischman
Massachusetts, USA
2020
17 minutes

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A Great Cry On Earth (from Cultivating Inner Peace)

podcasts@pariyatti.org (podcasts@pariyatti.org) — Thu, 11 Feb 2021 14:26:00 GMT

Chapter 27 - A Great Cry On Earth
from Cultivating Inner Peace by Paul R. Fleischman, M.D.

The practices from which inner peace derives, and which it in turn furthers, transcend material reality without rejecting it. To find inner peace, a person must be turned completely around. A challenge is set before us by the radical perception of “the flow of nutriment,” which means: Is there anything more to your life than the tumbling on of animal instinct—“the male collects food, and the female lays eggs”?

People contain an invisible wavelength that grows out of the feeling of “enough!” It is not exotic nor esoteric, for it is found in every person, more or less developed. Peace ascends through the aperture of psychic fullness. Energy to pursue high values, mindfulness of the ephemeral sensations of every moment, thoughtful inquiry beyond complacency—these are the seeds of enlightenment. Concentration, calm, joy based on perspective rather than acquisition—these are seeds of enlightenment. Equanimity in all circumstances is the culmination of inner peace—the radiance of sufficiency.

Dr. Paul Fleischman
Massachusetts, USA
2020
31 minutes

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Our Inner Peace Is Earth's Frontier (from Cultivating Inner Peace)

podcasts@pariyatti.org (podcasts@pariyatti.org) — Wed, 03 Feb 2021 19:40:00 GMT

Chapter 26 - Our Inner Peace Is Earth's Frontier
from Cultivating Inner Peace by Paul R. Fleischman, M.D.

Cultivating Inner Peace is the most important action we can take to help planet Earth, on whose back we all ride, whose breath we breathe, whose plants provide our food, and whose properly intense sunlight is the source of energy for the molecules that form our body. Rather than solipsistic disinterest, the cultivation of inner peace activates our fundamental human calling: to overcome our predatory egotism—which is the source of war, over population, and environmental destruction—and to reorganize our lives around the deepest gratifications we can feel: love, sympathetic joy, compassion, and peace of heart and mind.

Dr. Paul Fleischman
Massachusetts, USA
2020
34 minutes

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A Personal Experience of Vipassana Meditation (from Cultivating Inner Peace)

podcasts@pariyatti.org (podcasts@pariyatti.org) — Wed, 27 Jan 2021 15:49:00 GMT

Chapter 25 - A Personal Experience of Vipassana Meditation
from Cultivating Inner Peace by Paul R. Fleischman, M.D.

I took my first Vipassana meditation course in 1974 under the guidance of Mr. Goenka... In those days, Vipassana wasn’t being taught in the West. I made several trips to India and returned with the technique half-learned. I didn’t know where it fit into my life, but I saw it as something honest, free, and useful. I could own it myself, practice it without being swallowed by a religion or being wafted away in a pointless vacuum of career and convention.

I became increasingly committed and serious because every time I “sat” I felt I got something out of it. I never had any mystical or unusual experiences. I both experienced my mind-body, and was able to get some distance from it. I kept returning for ten-day courses, and practicing with increasing devotion in between. By now I’ve lived half a lifetime this way, and am archeological proof that meditation isn’t “Eastern thought.”

Dr. Paul Fleischman
Massachusetts, USA
2020
40 minutes

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Peace Is Purity (from Cultivating Inner Peace)

podcasts@pariyatti.org (podcasts@pariyatti.org) — Tue, 19 Jan 2021 18:21:00 GMT

Chapter 24 - Peace Is Purity
from Cultivating Inner Peace by Paul R. Fleischman, M.D.

The nucleus of inner peace is purity of heart and mind. When you say, “I want inner peace,” you mean that you want to be able to live with what’s inside you, to be at ease in the depths of yourself; and that integrated positivity, without cracks or seams, is called “purity.”

We have no difficulty in becoming aware of our mind. It floods us: it spawns epics and anecdotes and vacation plans. We all dwell in the captivity of our own melodrama. No one who has not spent whole days sealed alone inside her own head can know the fantasia of multiscreen ideation that will not stop for a moment. How can this self-entranced mind gain a more embracing and enduring perspective?

Purity, transcendence of imaginary and divisive selfhood, is the outcome of the experience of ineluctable change throughout the dream of the self. When the bodily basis of the self dissolves into the impersonal flows of universal matter, one drop of purity glistens in the mind. Purity is a direct product of experiencing ultimate reality of change in every particle of one’s own body-mind. In a moment of sweeping, penetrating meditation, the students may experience themselves as they might if they observed themselves from a helicopter for a hundred years: as a passing cloud.

Dr. Paul Fleischman
Massachusetts, USA
2020
53 minutes

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Peace Is Participation (from Cultivating Inner Peace)

podcasts@pariyatti.org (podcasts@pariyatti.org) — Tue, 12 Jan 2021 14:19:00 GMT

Chapter 23 - Peace Is Participation
from Cultivating Inner Peace by Paul R. Fleischman, M.D.

Among those who passed through the cloud chamber of existence and left a track of inner peace to hover behind them and to guide those who follow, none left a more exquisite trace or lived a more complete life than Rabindranath Tagore. His life is exemplary of a life of inner peace and participation. He mastered and manifested the intricate rhythm of solitude alternating with service in an atmosphere of dynamic harmony. He participated in every sphere, an energetic and active life with a broad sweep of interests that brought him into contact with a world fellowship, a bold life of competence and engagement. Yet his residual vapor unambiguously condenses into peace.

Dr. Paul Fleischman
Massachusetts, USA
2020
25 minutes

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Peace Is An Ambiance: Rabindranath Tagore (from Cultivating Inner Peace)

podcasts@pariyatti.org (podcasts@pariyatti.org) — Wed, 06 Jan 2021 14:56:00 GMT

Chapter 22 - Peace Is An Ambiance: Rabindranath Tagore
from Cultivating Inner Peace by Paul R. Fleischman, M.D.

There is a charmed quality to Rabindranath Tagore’s biography that enables us to inhale the fragrance of a life of peace-in- action. Not only the facts, but his atmosphere inspires peace, like the smell of transpiring grass on a summer evening. His history reveals how insight and action are complemented by relationship to an ambiance, producing an infectious feeling tone of dynamic equipoise. The events of his life and his poetry form a bouquet of images that can pervade our own peaceward dreams. As peace seekers, our strongest motivation arises from seeds of our own planting, but we are encouraged onward by the mythic potency of images derived from the lives of those who have absorbed and suffused the atmosphere with peace.

Dr. Paul Fleischman
Massachusetts, USA
2020
70 minutes

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Individual Identity Within Egolessness (from Cultivating Inner Peace)

podcasts@pariyatti.org (podcasts@pariyatti.org) — Tue, 29 Dec 2020 18:49:00 GMT

Chapter 21 - Individual Identity Within Egolessness
from Cultivating Inner Peace by Paul R. Fleischman, M.D.

Peaceful living derives from balance in a world of torque. The world shakes, but our gyroscope must remain upright. The student of peace envelops deep habits about how to live intentionally, selectively, naturally, knowledgeably, and harmoniously amidst losses, defeats, and gradual decline. Like an acrobat with eyes fixed on the horizon, peace focuses beyond self. Peaceful people inhabit landscapes where perspective derives from an infinitely distant vanishing point. Peace is transcendence of flux. Mountains erode, continents and oceans slide into one another, stars burn out. Still, men and women find within themselves an unshakeable something-else. Regardless of language, culture, religion, or its absence, inner peace means detachment from anxious narcissistic immediacy and entry into the impersonal. Peace is the simultaneous expansion and contraction of the world beyond measurement.

Dr. Paul Fleischman
Massachusetts, USA
2020
39 minutes

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Peace Is Humility or Egolessness (from Cultivating Inner Peace)

podcasts@pariyatti.org (podcasts@pariyatti.org) — Mon, 21 Dec 2020 20:51:00 GMT

Chapter 20 - Peace Is Humility or Egolessness
from Cultivating Inner Peace by Paul R. Fleischman, M.D.

Generally, we experience the details of our week as earth-shattering. To live a life of inner peace, we need to cultivate detachment from those gripping ups and downs on which our well-being appears to depend, because it is the delusion of importance that blinds us to the real panorama. The humility that will help you cultivate inner peace is a continuous falling back down to earth, like the leaves of birch trees spilling down in golden autumn showers.

The growth of humility, downward, creates an upward expansion of starry sky to contemplate. Traditionally, this attitude of greeting toward the world has been called “egolessness” in the East and “humility” in the West. I want to remove humility from its churchly old lace and make this realization helpful and regular as denim.

Dr. Paul Fleischman
Massachusetts, USA
2020
30 minutes

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The Gateway to Sympathetic Joy (from Cultivating Inner Peace)

podcasts@pariyatti.org (podcasts@pariyatti.org) — Mon, 14 Dec 2020 18:34:00 GMT

Chapter 19 - The Gateway to Sympathetic Joy
from Cultivating Inner Peace by Paul R. Fleischman, M.D.

A person who has learned the skill of sorrow paradoxically will be lightened by kinship and communion with all beings, and will spontaneously speak in phrases of emphathy and saliency. Words and sorrow are a couple with a long, strong marriage.

Regardless of what we believe the meaning of our life to be, we feel peaceful when our sense of concern is directed outside ourselves toward others, not as a substitute for selfcare, but as an extension of it. Sorrow is what enables pity, dread, or condescension to become compassion. This is one of the deepest ironies of human nature, that our sorrow also contains a leavening celebration.

Dr. Paul Fleischman
Massachusetts, USA
2020
16 minutes

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Sorrow Is a Skill (from Cultivating Inner Peace)

podcasts@pariyatti.org (podcasts@pariyatti.org) — Wed, 02 Dec 2020 13:48:00 GMT

Chapter 18 - Sorrow Is a Skill
from Cultivating Inner Peace by Paul R. Fleischman, M.D.

Some people can successfully avoid the depths of life, but if you try to deepen your feelings of peace, you’ll unearth within yourself and the world profound unpleasantness. We saw this to be true in the lives of ecstatic visionaries like Walt Whitman, and in the lives of great nature lovers like Thoreau and Muir. Logically, the world is unknowable to us, who are brief visitors. In spite of that, because of that, to find peace, we have to confront our despairs, ignite our faith, and learn to feel sorrow. Hold on, Reader! We’re headed toward a magnificent campsite, but first we have to be roped for safety across an icy traverse.

Dr. Paul Fleischman
Massachusetts, USA
2020
19 minutes

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Peace Is Facing Sorrow (from Cultivating Inner Peace)

podcasts@pariyatti.org (podcasts@pariyatti.org) — Mon, 23 Nov 2020 19:28:00 GMT

Chapter 17 - Peace Is Facing Sorrow
from Cultivating Inner Peace by Paul R. Fleischman, M.D.

If a reader were using this book as a practical guide to cultivating inner peace, he or she might now be thinking: I know that mere situational adjustments won’t essentially improve my life, which gains its trajectory only from my own actions and feelings. I want to sail toward peace, easy in the currents of myself, harmoniously related to people and circumstances, and to achieve this I have to consciously steer with peace as my polestar. When life storms and batters me, my goal is to return to course, and the will to do so creates the dynamic resilience I need. I’ll limit myself to sail light and trim. I’ll absorb the wise directions of those who’ve already negotiated these straits, soaked in the soothing sounds of peace, and my own words will add to this score. I’ll befriend all I meet on wing and wave, an unwalled, welcoming life.

But you might feel confused to find, having taken these steps, that you are oppressed by a cloud of sorrow. Yet this would be a good sign, because impersonal and surprising grief is the harbinger beyond the known world of yourself to the horizonless peace you seek, as the story of the Buddha will show.

Dr. Paul Fleischman
Massachusetts, USA
2020
33 minutes

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Celebrating with Everyone (from Cultivating Inner Peace)

podcasts@pariyatti.org (podcasts@pariyatti.org) — Mon, 16 Nov 2020 19:23:00 GMT

Chapter 16 - Celebrating with Everyone
from Cultivating Inner Peace by Paul R. Fleischman, M.D.

A peaceful heart celebrates with everyone. “Nature” is a construct, the imposition of a category over the living, vibrating, collections of atoms and molecules, shaped into hearts and minds that are swaying, flying, and yodeling around us today. When even the concept of “nature” is removed, rivers and bears are seen to be as consanguineous as spouses and store clerks.

The process of impermanence and change unites the world. Nature and people have no clear demarcation. We are all tumbling on together. What we subsume under the rubric “nature” is the screen onto which we project our own love and compassion—or lack of them—and when we say “love of nature,” we refer to our capacity to pour out nurturant and fond delight toward all or any “others.” “Nature” is inner peace flashed back and forth between a human being and any other kind of cloud.

Dr. Paul Fleischman
Massachusetts, USA
2020
8 minutes

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Henry David Thoreau (from Cultivating Inner Peace)

podcasts@pariyatti.org (podcasts@pariyatti.org) — Mon, 09 Nov 2020 18:36:00 GMT

Chapter 15 - Henry David Thoreau
from Cultivating Inner Peace by Paul R. Fleischman, M.D.

Thoreau was foremost a spiritual seeker, a Transcendentalist, a student of the inner light. Keeping himself free of social institutions like governments, churches, and jobs, he studied, thought, and wrote out his innermost thoughts, and sauntered through nature, observing every detail as a communication from a higher sphere.

He stands at the pinnacle of this world wide tradition of keeping nature in focus as a method of tuning the heart to peaceful vibrations. Of all the people I have written about so far, Thoreau probably attained the most abiding equanimity. His story will perfume your mind with peace.

Dr. Paul Fleischman
Massachusetts, USA
2020
32 minutes

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John Muir (from Cultivating Inner Peace)

podcasts@pariyatti.org (podcasts@pariyatti.org) — Mon, 02 Nov 2020 14:11:00 GMT

Chapter 14 - John Muir
from Cultivating Inner Peace by Paul R. Fleischman, M.D.

Muir made harmony his orienting point and built a lifestyle around it. He refused teaching positions at Harvard and the Boston Academy of Science, and instead cleaved to the environment he wrote about.

John Muir’s intimacy with nature deepened to mental states of fusion, during which he lost his sense of individual identity to blend with the whole. “You bathe in these spirit-beams, turning round and round, as if warming at a campfire. Presently, you lose consciousness of your own separate existence; you blend with the landscape, and become part and parcel of nature.” By “nature,” Muir always meant one mood: harmony in every thing, harmony over and over.

Dr. Paul Fleischman
Massachusetts, USA
2020
34 minutes

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Peace in Nature (from Cultivating Inner Peace)

podcasts@pariyatti.org (podcasts@pariyatti.org) — Mon, 26 Oct 2020 18:33:00 GMT

Chapter 13 - Peace In Nature
from Cultivating Inner Peace by Paul R. Fleischman, M.D.

Nature is a stern guru. Those who are not simultaneously knowing themselves as they study nature will be shaken into rude awareness of the great dark truths of the natural world and of their own psyches. Just as nature is the realm of light and beaches and bluebirds, it is the realm of the shadow winter, storms, cold, and death. Immersion in the natural world doesn’t provide a sanctuary from human suffering; it augments and clarifies the deepest origins of distress. When that augmentation is a step toward confrontation and resolution, it is also a step toward inner peace.

Dr. Paul Fleischman
Massachusetts, USA
2020
15 minutes

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Mahatma Gandhi's Mantric Collage (Cultivating Inner Peace)

podcasts@pariyatti.org (podcasts@pariyatti.org) — Tue, 20 Oct 2020 13:18:00 GMT

Chapter 12 - Mahatma Gandhi's Mantric Collage
from Cultivating Inner Peace by Paul R. Fleischman, M.D.

India's great political and religious leader, Mahatma Gandhi, intended his monumental public life to be merely an extension of his inner cultivation of peace. Foremost among Gandhi’s peaceful qualities were his reverence for world spiritual literature, his awareness that words transmit feelings as well as ideas, his steady immersion in peaceful language, and his use of linguistic vibrations to transform his followers.

On your own path, peace means listening and speaking as if your words and actions were playing one instrument in the orchestra of the universe. What you say, read, listen to, will influence how your molecules and nervous system dance, and what messages you will conduct and broadcast. Whitman’s poetry may spring you free of foreshortened time; and Gandhi’s dhuns might, if you could reconstruct them, prepare you for noble social action. The words that you absorb will be important contributors to the peace that you will transmit, intentionally or not.

Dr. Paul Fleischman
Massachusetts, USA
2020
22 minutes

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Walt Whitman’s Poetic Peace (from Cultivating Inner Peace)

podcasts@pariyatti.org (podcasts@pariyatti.org) — Thu, 08 Oct 2020 13:29:00 GMT

Chapter 11 - Walt Whitman’s Poetic Peace
from Cultivating Inner Peace by Paul R. Fleischman, M.D.

"A hundred years after his death, Whitman’s life transpires the atmosphere of outdoor freedom. He is known as America’s pagan poet, who set the style of bohemian bard, beckoning to listeners today from old photographs that capture him in his rustic livery, cocked Stetson, open collar, and spirit of dusty rambles on timeless summer days.

The story of Whitman’s relationship with his literary ancestors is not only instructive but intriguing, since he intentionally distorted fact to sculpt a poetic truth. Both what he initially intended to hide, and what his writing and later confessions reveal, highlight the role of the vibration of language in his journey toward poise, since Whitman’s life, for all its breadth and creativity, was an increasingly dynamic, selectively honed pilgrimage into peace."

Dr. Paul Fleischman
Massachusetts, USA
2020
34 minutes

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Speak Your Peace (from Cultivating Inner Peace)

podcasts@pariyatti.org (podcasts@pariyatti.org) — Tue, 29 Sep 2020 05:05:00 GMT

Chapter 10 - Speak Your Peace
from Cultivating Inner Peace by Paul R. Fleischman, M.D.

"If I could do one thing for my society today, it would be to create community in which everyone was encouraged to speak from the heart, and to listen to the messages of others. I have spent most of my life listening to varieties of justified complaints that no one listens to or understands. Unfortunately, we live in a non-listening, mass-market, person-inattentive society. The emphasis on efficiency, productivity, pleasure, and hurry that pervade society leave little room for building personal relationships around resonant communication of feelings. We live in a society uniquely devoid of conversation about the backdrop of infinite reality, through which every shaft of light that falls on us has passed. We see the tint of this passage everywhere, but we suffer from derealization when we try to speak about its presence in our lives. Yet this cultural repression is changeable, every time we ourselves dare to refer in our talk to the reality always present around us."

Dr. Paul Fleischman
Massachusetts, USA
2020
22 minutes

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Peace Is the Vibration of Language (from Cultivating Inner Peace)

podcasts@pariyatti.org (podcasts@pariyatti.org) — Tue, 22 Sep 2020 13:54:00 GMT

Chapter 9 - Peace Is the Vibration of Language
from Cultivating Inner Peace by Paul R. Fleischman, M.D.

"Words of peace educate us, temper us through rational inquiry, inspire us with what has already been attained, and transform us in the mere receptivity we have to their tremolo. The practice of imbibing words of peace will create within you a hum of peace. Syllabic peace sends transforming shafts of sound shivering through its listeners. Our hearts continue to beat in rhythmic sympathy."

Dr. Paul Fleischman
Massachusetts, USA
2020
6 minutes

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The Shakers: The Benefits and Limits of Selectivity (from Cultivating Inner Peace)

podcasts@pariyatti.org (podcasts@pariyatti.org) — Wed, 26 Aug 2020 02:52:00 GMT

Chapter 8 - The Shakers: The Benefits and Limits of Selectivity
from Cultivating Inner Peace by Paul R. Fleischman, M.D.

"The Shakers are an example. Paragons of selectivity, they produced one of the great outpourings of spiritual peace in American history, yet their heritage is masked by an intensely ambivalent reception that speaks to the essential tension which selectivity addresses. The Shakers deserve our attention as exemplars of both the strengths and pitfalls involved in selectivity. Their example highlights how you can intensify your relationship to peace every day via rigorous selectivity, but also how selectivity can be overdone and become paradoxically un-selective. The Shakers command our attention around the question: Just how much selectivity is peace-bearing, and how much is stifling?"

Dr. Paul Fleischman
Massachusetts, USA
2020
27 minutes

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Selectivity in Contemporary Lives (from Cultivating Inner Peace)

podcasts@pariyatti.org (podcasts@pariyatti.org) — Tue, 18 Aug 2020 07:23:00 GMT

Chapter 7 - Selectivity in Contemporary Lives
from Cultivating Inner Peace by Paul R. Fleischman, M.D.

"In a complex society, a certain level of intricacy must be added into the life of each citizen in order to be able to functionally mesh with multiple social and economic gears. Simplicity in a farmer doesn’t consist in planting a monoculture. Selectivity doesn’t mean constricted, impoverished, or inviable living. Selectivity means conscious choice of what is important, necessary, and salubrious, with conscious relinquishment of what is diluting, distracting, and obfuscating. The choice is personal: live well, plant your crops, be prosperous but not festooned."

Dr. Paul Fleischman
Massachusetts, USA
2020
30 minutes

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Selectivity and the American Family (from Cultivating Inner Peace)

podcasts@pariyatti.org (podcasts@pariyatti.org) — Mon, 10 Aug 2020 14:44:00 GMT

Chapter 6 - Selectivity and the American Family
from Cultivating Inner Peace by Paul R. Fleischman, M.D.

"Our children have lost permission to dwell in their spacious reverie of newness. They no longer inhabit the structureless domes of uninterrupted afternoons. In order for us to function efficiently, we need them to be busy. We also—out of well-intended concern—want to prepare them to deal competently with our gadget-dense sphere, so that, almost from the start, children are propelled into a high rhythmic froth. This could be a sprightly animation if it were balanced by an equal but opposite emphasis on inward serenity and outward harmony, which would provide an orchestrating principle, a focus to the swirl, not precluding skillful assertion, but orienting it. The receptive neurology of a child can catch and hold real experiences in contemplative stillness and inner joy."

Dr. Paul Fleischman
Massachusetts, USA
2020
20 minutes

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Peace Is Selective (from Cultivating Inner Peace)

podcasts@pariyatti.org (podcasts@pariyatti.org) — Mon, 03 Aug 2020 16:19:00 GMT

Chapter 5 - Peace Is Selective
from Cultivating Inner Peace by Paul R. Fleischman, M.D.

"In Part II, I discussed the dynamic quality of peace, the action of returning, like a compass needle to the north. Selecting peace is different, more like writing a song. You quell the sounds of the traffic around you, and a halting tune emerges. If you let it rise and expand, but at the same time contain it, you may happen upon the invisible coherence of melody, which then flows like a stream, bounded and directional. Melody isn’t merely pretty sound, but an organized, integrated channel. You have to push aside distraction—not just noise, but even tangential charm—in order to hear a melody ripple downhill within you."

Dr. Paul Fleischman
Massachusetts, USA
2020
7.5 minutes

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Scott and Helen Nearing (from Cultivating Inner Peace)

podcasts@pariyatti.org (podcasts@pariyatti.org) — Mon, 27 Jul 2020 17:57:00 GMT

Chapter 4 - Scott and Helen Nearing
from Cultivating Inner Peace by Paul R. Fleischman, M.D.

"In this section of the book, I am focusing your attention on the need for a dynamic relationship to your mood and your idea of peace. Lifetimes of peace derive from flexible, problem-solving commitments that reassert peace as the core goal in the solution of your current problem, whether that problem be inner or outer, hunger or war.

One intriguing example of this dynamic process is the life of Scott and Helen Nearing, organic gardeners who inspired thousands of people to live lives honed by simplicity and peacefulness...."

Dr. Paul Fleischman
Massachusetts, USA
2020
26 minutes

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Peace Is Dynamic (from Cultivating Inner Peace)

podcasts@pariyatti.org (podcasts@pariyatti.org) — Wed, 22 Jul 2020 04:13:00 GMT

Chapter 3 - Peace Is Dynamic
from Cultivating Inner Peace by Paul R. Fleischman, M.D.

Cultivating inner peace doesn’t eliminate problems, but it facilitates overcoming them with a particular flavor. You can’t strive for uniform bliss in the name of peace. The pursuit of inner peace is a self-regenerating way of life. As long as we live, we will be spun with demand and action, but we can design an orienting axis of stability within the swirl.

Dr. Paul Fleischman
Massachusetts, USA
2020
19 minutes

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Peace Is a Personal Encounter: Juan and Kathleen Mascaró (from Cultivating Inner Peace)

podcasts@pariyatti.org (podcasts@pariyatti.org) — Tue, 14 Jul 2020 00:14:00 GMT

Chapter 2 - Peace Is a Personal Encounter: Juan and Kathleen Mascaró
from Cultivating Inner Peace by Paul R. Fleischman, M.D.

"The possibility of a life devoted to personal peacefulness that then atomizes outward to others is conveyed from one person to another. For a sustaining image of such a life, I am indebted to Juan and Kathleen Mascaró. They drew me like a magnet into their world. This is how I met them."

Dr. Paul Fleischman
Massachusetts, USA
2020
23 minutes

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The Quest for Inner Peace (from Cultivating Inner Peace)

podcasts@pariyatti.org (podcasts@pariyatti.org) — Mon, 06 Jul 2020 16:48:00 GMT

Chapter 1 - The Quest for Inner Peace
from Cultivating Inner Peace by Paul R. Fleischman, M.D.

The cultivation of inner peace is as rational and orderly as any other aspect of the human condition, and pertains equally to all of us despite our differing starting gates, nervous systems, and life experiences. Out of my own life, and the lives of teachers and friends and those I have been privileged to know professionally, and out of the lives of great souls who left their footprints for us to follow, I would like to provide pragmatic, concrete guidance toward inner peace and radiant harmony. My examples will be drawn from real people, whole lives filled with the dynamic of human suffering and relief. I will tell the stories of people I know (often disguised or over lapped with other people to preserve privacy), or people whose lives are richly documented in historical record.

Paul R. Fleischman, M.D.
Massachusetts, USA
2020
37 minutes

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Deeper Aspects of Sīla

podcasts@pariyatti.org (podcasts@pariyatti.org) — Fri, 12 Jun 2020 14:54:00 GMT

An ethical life is composed of purity of action, purity of speech and purity of livelihood. Upholding it requires not only determination but proper comprehension as well. From the perspective of abstaining (vārittaṃ) to the perspective of performing (cārittaṃ), this talk aims to support the understanding of the deeper aspects of Sīla. Integrating selected quotes from the direct words of the Buddha and the commentaries, it highlights the different aspects of Sīla, proceeding in the order of the precepts. It addresses the detailed definition of each precept, the underlying volition of the act to be performed, its manifestation and its results.

Deeper Aspects of Sīla by Klaus Nothnagel
Tel Aviv, Israel
February 28, 2020
83 minutes

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Science, Objectivity and Vipassana by Peter Kerr, Ph.D.

podcasts@pariyatti.org (podcasts@pariyatti.org) — Fri, 29 May 2020 16:26:00 GMT

Addresses by S.N. Goenka and four others from the second "Insights from an Ancient Tradition" conference, held at the Vipassana Meditation Center (Dhamma Dhara) in Shelburne Falls, Massachusetts, USA, September 3 - 4, 2000. The MP3s include questions and answers at the end of each talk. The conference followed a ten-day Vipassana retreat. It was designed so that participants could explore at the intellectual level what they had experienced while meditating.

The four presenters at the conference were all Vipassana meditators who live engaged professional lives and who serve as assistants or teachers of Vipassana, appointed by Mr. Goenka. The revered Teacher of Vipassana, who was visiting America for the first time in nine years, had just completed his participation in the Millenium Peace Summit at the United Nations.

Science, Objectivity and Vipassana by Peter Kerr, Ph.D.
Shelbourne, MA
September 2000
80 minutes

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Practical Spirituality - The Art and Science of Vipassana by Lemay Henderson, M.D.

podcasts@pariyatti.org (podcasts@pariyatti.org) — Mon, 18 May 2020 16:33:00 GMT

Practical Spirituality - The Art and Science of Vipassana by Lemay Henderson, M.D.
Shelbourne, MA
September 2000
80 minutes

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Meditating in Troubled Times 2020

podcasts@pariyatti.org (podcasts@pariyatti.org) — Fri, 08 May 2020 14:47:00 GMT

Meditating in Troubled Times
a lecture by Paul R. Fleischman, M.D.

Dr. Paul R. Fleischman recorded this talk on April 18th, 2020 during quarantine. The emphasis of the talk is what is different and what is not different in our vipassana meditation practice due to the coronavirus and its impact upon our daily life. It was originally given with the same title "Meditating in Troubled Times" in Cologne, Germany (2017).

Dr. Paul Fleischman
Massachusetts, USA
2020
74 minutes

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Spiritual Emotions from Insights from an Ancient Tradition

podcasts@pariyatti.org (podcasts@pariyatti.org) — Fri, 24 Apr 2020 04:10:00 GMT

Spiritual Emotions by Paul R Fleischman, M.D.
Shelbourne, MA
September 2000
77 minutes

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Meditating in Troubled Times

podcasts@pariyatti.org (podcasts@pariyatti.org) — Wed, 08 Apr 2020 02:58:00 GMT

Meditating in Troubled Times
a lecture by Paul R. Fleischman, M.D.

This talk was originally given to an audience of Old Students (i.e. those who have completed a 10-day Vipassana meditation course as taught by S.N. Goenka) in Cologne, Germany (2017). Accordingly, it contains language and concepts that are familiar to Old Students, and it may not make sense to someone who is not familiar with this terminology.

Dr. Paul Fleischman
Cologne, Germany
2017
74 minutes

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S.N. Goenka and Vipassana

podcasts@pariyatti.org (podcasts@pariyatti.org) — Fri, 27 Mar 2020 01:11:00 GMT

S.N. Goenka (1924-2013), the renowned teacher of Vipassana meditation, undertook an extensive teaching tour of North America and Europe in 2002. This documentary originally made for Dutch television includes his address to business leaders at a New York City conference, talks at the Belgian Vipassana Center, and interviews with practitioners who described the benefits of Vipassana.

Every year more than 100,000 people attend Mr. Goenka’s 10-day courses in Vipassana. This ancient technique continues as a modern tool for transformation. Taught around the world as a non-sectarian practice, people from all walks of life–executives, government officials, clergy, students, homemakers, inmates—learn and benefit from Vipassana.

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Dr. Paul Fleischman at Gabelli School of Business at Fordham University

podcasts@pariyatti.org (podcasts@pariyatti.org) — Wed, 04 Mar 2020 03:58:00 GMT

An Introduction to Vipassana Meditation
a lecture by Paul R. Fleischman, M.D.

This is a general talk open to the public by Dr. Paul R. Fleischman given at the Gabelli School of Business, Fordham University in midtown Manhattan, February 26, 2020.

Dr. Paul Fleischman
Gabelli School of Business at Fordham University
February 26, 2020
48 minutes

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Sayagyi U Ba Khin: a talk by Patrick Given-Wilson

podcasts@pariyatti.org (podcasts@pariyatti.org) — Mon, 02 Jul 2018 18:10:00 GMT

In this video, Patrick Given-Wilson explores the life of Sayagyi U Ba Khin the foremost lay teacher of vipassana meditation in Burma and S.N. Goenka's teacher. He achieved extraordinary results with his students in short periods of time, and combined this with a stellar career as a senior civil servant in Burma, at times holding six to seven different senior government positions. He had a strong conviction that "the time-clock of Vipassana has now struck" for the worldwide revival of the Buddha's path to liberation, and directed his considerable energy towards its fulfillment.

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Saya Thetgyi: a talk by Patrick Given-Wilson

podcasts@pariyatti.org (podcasts@pariyatti.org) — Sat, 14 Apr 2018 02:17:00 GMT

"When Saya Thet was born and growing up few would have dreamt that this small boy from a poor, rural village—who had little education and knew a little Pali—would become the first householder teacher in this tradition since the time of the Buddha."

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In this video, Patrick Given-Wilson explores the life of Saya Thetgyi who became a critical link between the monk Ven. Ledi Sayadaw and Sayagyi U Ba Khin in helping to establish a tradition of vipassana householder teachers.

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Ven. Ledi Sayadaw: a talk by Patrick Given-Wilson

podcasts@pariyatti.org (podcasts@pariyatti.org) — Sat, 17 Feb 2018 20:21:00 GMT

"Ven. Ledi Sayadaw was the first vipassana teacher that we know of in this tradition in modern times with such detail. His great innovation was to start spreading the actual practice widely and to householders."

In this video, Patrick Given-Wilson explores the life of this meditation master and magnificent pariyatti scholar who authored over a hundred expositions on the Dhamma. He was perhaps the most outstanding Buddhist figure of his age. All who have come in contact with the path of Dhamma in recent years owe a great debt of gratitude to this scholarly, saintly monk who was instrumental in reviving the traditional practice of vipassana, making it more available for renunciates and lay people alike.

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Pariyatti Presents... The Revival of Pilgrimage in India

podcasts@pariyatti.org (podcasts@pariyatti.org) — Fri, 16 Jun 2017 03:30:00 GMT

Dr. Panth, a Buddhist scholar, was the inaugural speaker for Pariyatti Presents.... Watch his talk The Revival of Pilgrimage in India.

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Our Best and Most Lasting Gift: The Universal Features of Meditation (University of Colorado, Boulder)

podcasts@pariyatti.org (podcasts@pariyatti.org) — Thu, 15 Dec 2016 00:32:00 GMT

Our Best and Most Lasting Gift: The Universal Features of Meditation
a lecture by Paul R. Fleischman, M.D.
delivered at the University of Colorado, Boulder

This talk was originally written in response to an invitation from multiple sponsors at Yale University. Various versions of this talk were given at Northeastern University, New York University, The University of Washington, Seattle; The University of British Columbia, Vancouver; the University of Colorado, Boulder; Harvard University, and Brown University, as well as at Dhamma Patapa Vipassana Center, Georgia.

This particular version of the talk was recorded at the University of Colorado, Boulder and is meant as an introductory talk that uses no technical language, and that contains explanations that require no previous biological knowledge. (Please understand that due to recording problems, the question-and-answer session ends abruptly.)

Another recording of this talk from the University of Washington, Seattle is geared more towards a university audience. It is a little more technical, and may perhaps be appreciated more by someone familiar with biological understanding. It looks upon meditation from a biological standpoint.

Paul R. Fleischman
audio recorded at the University of Colorado, Boulder
Sept. 29, 2016
59 minutes (with 15 min. Q. & A.)
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Our Best and Most Lasting Gift: The Universal Features of Meditation (University of Washington, Seattle)

podcasts@pariyatti.org (podcasts@pariyatti.org) — Mon, 12 Sep 2016 21:45:00 GMT

Our Best and Most Lasting Gift: The Universal Features of Meditation
a lecture by Paul R. Fleischman, M.D.
delivered at the University of Washington, Seattle

This version of the talk was recorded at the The University of Washington, Seattle is geared more towards a university audience. It is a little more technical, and may perhaps be appreciated more by someone familiar with biological understanding. It looks upon meditation from a biological standpoint.

Another recording of this talk from the University of Colorado and is meant as an introductory talk that uses no technical language, and that contains explanations that require no previous biological knowledge. If you want to listen to both talks, consider listening to the Colorado talk first.

Paul R. Fleischman
audio recorded at The University of Washington, Seattle
April 21, 2016
1 hour 4 minutes
PDF download of the talk also available below

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Ven. Webu Sayadaw: a talk by Patrick Given-Wilson

podcasts@pariyatti.org (podcasts@pariyatti.org) — Tue, 03 May 2016 00:10:00 GMT

Webu Sayadaw was important for two reasons. One was that in his time he became one of the most venerated monks in Burma; he was known as an arahant, a fully-liberated person. And the second reason is that he encouraged Sayagyi U Ba Khin, Goenkaji's teacher, to start teaching meditation without delay. For a householder to be encouraged by a monk of such standing, gave Sayagyi enormous status, prestige and backing in his work throughout his life.

In this video, Patrick Given-Wilson explores this important relationship between Ven. Webu Sayadaw and Sayagyi U Ba Khin taking us through the significant life events of this inspiring monk who was known for giving all importance to diligent practice over scholastic achievement.

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"Come and See!" from Realizing Change

podcasts@pariyatti.org (podcasts@pariyatti.org) — Sat, 02 Apr 2016 16:25:00 GMT

“After finishing high school I was not sure what to study next. Philosophy was one of the possibilities, it seemed interesting, but I knew I did not really want to learn other people’s theories and thoughts, but rather how to live a good life myself. Wisdom was what I was looking for . . . .”

In this final Realizing Change Dhamma podcast, Come and See!, meditators share stories confirming that the search for truth is a very personal journey. An ancient technique of meditation, Vipassana is as relevant now as in the past and the direct personal experience of one’s own inner reality, mind and body, as it changes moment to moment, is at the core of the practice.

12 - Come and See!
as read by Ian Hetherington
recorded 2014/2015
29 minutes

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"One Truth - Vipassana, Science and Spirituality" from Realizing Change

podcasts@pariyatti.org (podcasts@pariyatti.org) — Wed, 02 Mar 2016 15:46:00 GMT

For the harmonious development of individuals and society, proper integration of science and Dhamma is essential, yet they are often perceived as irreconcilable. Dhamma for many people today has become identified with sectarian religions, ritual, community conflicts and a stubborn resistance to any logical scrutiny of beliefs. Science meanwhile is usually associated with thoroughgoing materialism—the view that matter is the only reality.

In this month’s Dhamma podcast, One Truth - Vipassana, Science and Spirituality, we focus on how Vipassana elevates shared spiritual values over superficial differences, and points a way towards genuine understanding and reconciliation within and between diverse faiths, traditions, and science.

11 - One Truth - Vipassana, Science and Spirituality
as read by Ian Hetherington
recorded 2014/2015
54 minutes

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"Managing Oneself - Vipassana, Work & Social Action" from "Realizing Change"

podcasts@pariyatti.org (podcasts@pariyatti.org) — Mon, 01 Feb 2016 21:10:00 GMT

Political, social and economic problems have always existed but with today’s almost instant communications, we can see just how widespread these are: the frightened refugees vowing revenge, another tainted food scare, the latest corruption scandal. Why even now, we may ask, do these same patterns keep recurring? Why have world organizations like the U.N. and individual governments not been able to deal effectively with problems such as communal tension, poverty, unemployment and abuse of power? Do we ever learn?

In this month’s Dhamma podcast, Managing Oneself - Vipassana, Work & Social Action, we focus on how Vipassana offers an alternative approach to solving these problems and the untold misery they cause. Know-how and resources are certainly necessary but above all wisdom is required. Listen to how people from various professions and backgrounds apply the beneﬁts of vipassana in practical ways to tackle these global problems.

10 - Managing Oneself - Vipassana, Work & Social Action
as read by Ian Hetherington
recorded 2014/2015
74 minutes

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"Healing Mind - Health and Vipassana" from Realizing Change

podcasts@pariyatti.org (podcasts@pariyatti.org) — Wed, 06 Jan 2016 03:38:00 GMT

“His physical condition worsened, the atmosphere at home grew increasingly tense and he seriously considered closing down his dental clinic. As a last resort, on the recommendation of a neighbor, he joined a ten-day Vipassana retreat, never thinking he’d be able to complete it. With faith and sheer willpower he learned to meditate and noticed an unmistakable lessening in the pain which had become his constant companion.”

A combination of physical, mental and social factors makes up the whole person. Each one contributes to our evolving state of health. But of these mind is most important because it is the central directing force of our entire life and activity. In this month's Dhamma podcast, Healing Mind - Health and Vipassana, we share stories from meditators about the impact vipassana has had helping them face mental disorders, physical illnesses, addictions, and ultimately, death.

9 - Healing Mind - Health and Vipassana
as read by Ian Hetherington
recorded 2014/2015
54 minutes

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"The Compass - Vipassana and the Young" from Realizing Change

podcasts@pariyatti.org (podcasts@pariyatti.org) — Wed, 11 Nov 2015 19:09:00 GMT

“Grown ups think that children don’t have problems, but we do . . . missing my mum, worrying about school work,feeling lonely, getting angry with my little sister. Why do I get so upset? Can’t I stop being bad tempered? …”

Children come to learn meditation with many of the same aims and hopes as adults. Some hope “to become nicer to be around.” Others wish to be able to deal with stressful situations or to become more self-confident. In this month's Dhamma podcast listen to the inspiring experiences and stories of young people who have taken a children’s course.

8- The Compass - Vipassana and the Young
as read by Ian Hetherington
recorded 2014/2015
37 minutes

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"Freedom Behind Bars - Vipassana in Prisons" from Realizing Change

podcasts@pariyatti.org (podcasts@pariyatti.org) — Sun, 18 Oct 2015 18:28:00 GMT

"Speaking for myself, we all need a way to face suffering. Suffering includes everything from the knowledge of our own mortality and ultimate aloneness, to the more immediate miseries of each person’s life….When an inmate finishes a Vipassana course, he or she has had a glimpse of freedom, perhaps for the first time. Hope and confidence arise from the knowledge that the source and the end of all misery lies within."

In this month's podcast, Chapter 7 " Freedom Behind Bars - Vipassana in Prisons," we explore how Vipassana courses conducted in prisons are attracting interest as they affect penal systems and treatment programs around the world (India, Taiwan, Thailand, Nepal, USA, New Zealand, and UK). Listen to inmates, prison guards, and administrators express their stories after sitting a 10-Day Vipassana course.

7 - Freedom Behind Bars - Vipassana in Prisons
as read by Ian Hetherington
recorded 2014/2015
47 minutes

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"On the Path" from Realizing Change

podcasts@pariyatti.org (podcasts@pariyatti.org) — Sat, 12 Sep 2015 20:17:00 GMT

“For as long as I can remember I believed that every person had the right, and the ability, to achieve peace and happiness. When it did not happen for me automatically, as all my childhood (and adult) fairytales had promised, I was lost. No one had given me any practical way of overcoming the pain and suffering that I was experiencing. Would meditation help? A few tentative enquiries led me to Vipassana meditation as taught by Mr S.N. Goenka of India….”

In this month's podcast, Chapter 6 "On the Path," we hear students tell their own stories of transformation, from first sitting, through years of practice and service, to the responsibilities of teaching.

6 - On the Path
as read by Ian Hetherington
recorded 2014/2015
63 minutes

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"The Course Experience - After" from Realizing Change

podcasts@pariyatti.org (podcasts@pariyatti.org) — Wed, 12 Aug 2015 21:59:00 GMT

“I have practiced Vipassana meditation every day for three months now. The rewards are great. The change in my life is enormous. I used to drink alcohol every day to survive the stress, now I can live without it. I was having a lot of trouble with my son, but since I learned not to react, not to get too angry, the relationship has taken a positive turnaround...”

This audio podcast is Chapter 5 of a twelve-part series from the audiobook Realizing Change by Ian Hetherington. It examines how to build on what’s been gained and how to keep growing on the path after a course.

5 - The Course Experience - After
as read by Ian Hetherington
recorded 2014/2015
42 minutes

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"The Course Experience - During" from Realizing Change

podcasts@pariyatti.org (podcasts@pariyatti.org) — Tue, 21 Jul 2015 22:09:00 GMT

People sometimes feel that meditation is an introverted and rather selfish activity. “What about the ills of the world while you are contemplating your navel!” Vipassana is a self centered technique in the sense that only by working correctly on ourselves can we really be in a position to help others. But the whole thrust of the meditation is towards dissolving the false ego we have created and which now controls us. Little by little, as we transcend selfish egotism, we naturally want to turn the inner-directed energy and insight outwards. In this way we complete the circle of self and others.

This audio podcast is Chapter 4 of a twelve-part series from the audiobook Realizing Change by Ian Hetherington. It examines the course program detailing how it helps students get the most from their retreat.

4 - The Course Experience - During
as read by Ian Hetherington
recorded 2014/2015
69 minutes

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"The Course Experience - Before" from Realizing Change

podcasts@pariyatti.org (podcasts@pariyatti.org) — Fri, 12 Jun 2015 18:48:00 GMT

"I hung the brochure with the course schedule on the wall of my room, and often looked at it in disbelief. Counting the meditation periods, I kept thinking, is that really ten hours? Are they nuts? Am I nuts? What am I doing here? Why am I doing this to myself? Something had drawn me to the place, certainly, but as the ten-day course geared up to begin, I still could not pinpoint what it was."

This audio podcast is Chapter 3 of a twelve-part series from the audiobook Realizing Change by Ian Hetherington. It investigates why many students have travelled thousands of miles to attend the 10-day vipassana retreat and how they came to be there.

3 - The Course Experience - Before
as read by Ian Hetherington
recorded 2014/2015
32 minutes

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"What Is Vipassana Meditation?" from Realizing Change

podcasts@pariyatti.org (podcasts@pariyatti.org) — Thu, 21 May 2015 22:45:00 GMT

Meditation means different things to different people. In the West the word commonly carries a very loose meaning connected with “thinking things through,” “pondering,” “reflecting.” It can also have associations with prayer or religious contemplation, relaxation and altered states of consciousness. Interest in “meditation” has been growing steadily since the 1960s but the breadth of definition can be confusing. It covers such a range of activities which use the same term in very different ways. To lots of people it remains a hazy area, even weird. What’s it all about?

This audio podcast is Chapter 2 of a twelve-part series from the audiobook Realizing Change by Ian Hetherington.

2 - What Is Vipassana Meditation?
as read by Ian Hetherington
recorded 2014/2015
18 minutes

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"Challenge and Change" from Realizing Change

podcasts@pariyatti.org (podcasts@pariyatti.org) — Mon, 13 Apr 2015 18:37:00 GMT

This audio podcast is Chapter 1 of a twelve-part series from the upcoming audiobook Realizing Change by Ian Hetherington. Alongside an account of the technique, each chapter is a sampling of the voices of meditators from different communities: young and old, female and male, simple and sophisticated. Some contributors’ names have been altered by request. Each has his or her own story—how they came to Vipassana, what they’ve learned, the struggles, the gains; all humanity at the water’s edge, ﬁnding common refreshment in a practice focused on peace, happiness, compassion and loving kindness.

1 - Challenge and Change
as read by Ian Hetherington
recorded 2014/2015
21 minutes

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Dr. Paul Fleischman (Weyhauser Chapel at Macalester College, St. Paul, MN - June 25, 2001)

podcasts@pariyatti.org (podcasts@pariyatti.org) — Thu, 15 Jan 2015 18:39:00 GMT

Cultivating Inner Peace
a lecture by Paul R. Fleischman, M.D.

Even in the context of modern life, inner peace can be cultivated, and can grow amply in your life. To facilitate inner peace, meditation is most effective when it is realistic, pragmatic, and free from dogma or cult. In his talk, Dr. Fleischman will discuss the practice of meditation based on non-sectarian, universal truths. This practice can be explained rationally and unfolds into a harmonious way of life, enhancing love, compassion, joy and peace.

A question-and-answer session follows the talk at 1:06:07 of the audio file.

Paul Fleischman
Weyhauser Chapel at Macalester College
June 25, 2001
1 hour 39 minutes

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Dr. Paul Fleischman (Google in March 2012)

podcasts@pariyatti.org (podcasts@pariyatti.org) — Thu, 20 Nov 2014 00:12:00 GMT

On March 14, 2012, Paul Fleischman visited Google headquarters in Mountain View, California and gave a talk about Vipassana meditation to Google employees. A Question-and-Answer session followed afterward (located at 57:39 of the recording).

Paul Fleischman
Google
March 14, 2012
1 hour 05 minutes

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Dr. Paul Fleischman (Tufts University, December 2012)

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This is a talk by Dr. Paul Fleischman followed by a Q. & A. session at Tufts University in December 2012.

Paul Fleischman
Tufts University
December 2012
1 hour 25 minutes

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Dr. Paul Fleischman (London, May 2011)

podcasts@pariyatti.org (podcasts@pariyatti.org) — Fri, 04 Nov 2011 23:38:00 GMT

A talk and Q&A from Paul Fleischman's visit to London in May 2011.

Paul Fleischman
London, UK
May 2011
1 hour 21 minutes

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Seeds of Awareness: Anapana Meditation for Children and Teens

podcasts@pariyatti.org (podcasts@pariyatti.org) — Tue, 29 Mar 2011 23:40:00 GMT

Today we bring you a video about Anapana meditation courses for children.

Seeds of Awareness
13 minutes

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New Dimensions interview with S.N. Goenka

podcasts@pariyatti.org (podcasts@pariyatti.org) — Thu, 14 Oct 2010 22:34:00 GMT

This month: an interview with S.N. Goenka from New Dimensions radio. Originally aired on New Dimensions on June 11, 2002. We are thankful for their permission to offer this podcast free of charge.

Duration: 57 minutes

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S.N. Goenka - Meditation Now tour
(Sheraton Laguardia, New York, NY - English/Mandarin)

podcasts@pariyatti.org (podcasts@pariyatti.org) — Thu, 14 Jan 2010 23:36:00 GMT

Our final stop on the Meditation Now tour, 2002, takes us to the Sheraton Laguardia, New York, NY, where S.N. Goenka discusses Vipassana meditation. This is a bilingual talk presented in English and Mandarin.

Meditation Now Talk with Q&A
Sheraton Laguardia (English / Mandarin)
Recorded August 5, 2002
94 minutes

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S.N. Goenka - Meditation Now tour
(Helen Hills Chapel, Northampton, MA)

podcasts@pariyatti.org (podcasts@pariyatti.org) — Mon, 14 Dec 2009 23:54:00 GMT

Our next stop on the Meditation Now tour, 2002, takes us to the Helen Hills Chapel, Northampton, MA, where S.N. Goenka discusses Vipassana meditation.

Meditation Now Talk with Q&A
Helen Hills Chapel
Recorded August 4, 2002
82 minutes

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Time to Breathe: Anapana Meditation for School Children

podcasts@pariyatti.org (podcasts@pariyatti.org) — Sun, 15 Nov 2009 00:01:00 GMT

Today we bring you a video about meditation courses for children.

Time to Breathe
14 minutes

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S.N. Goenka - Meditation Now tour
(Kresge Auditorium in Boston, MA)

podcasts@pariyatti.org (podcasts@pariyatti.org) — Wed, 14 Oct 2009 23:08:00 GMT

Our next stop on the Meditation Now tour, 2002, takes us to the Kresge Auditorium in Boston, MA, where S.N. Goenka discusses Vipassana meditation.

Meditation Now Talk with Q&A
Kresge Auditorium
Recorded July 31, 2002
79 minutes

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S.N. Goenka - Meditation Now tour
(John Hancock Hall in Boston, MA)

podcasts@pariyatti.org (podcasts@pariyatti.org) — Mon, 14 Sep 2009 23:10:00 GMT

Our next stop on the Meditation Now tour, 2002, takes us to the John Hancock Hall in Boston, MA, where S.N. Goenka discusses Vipassana meditation.

Meditation Now Talk with Q&A
John Hancock Hall
Recorded July 30, 2002
75 minutes

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S.N. Goenka - Meditation Now tour
(University of Quebec, Montreal, QC - English-French)

podcasts@pariyatti.org (podcasts@pariyatti.org) — Fri, 14 Aug 2009 23:12:00 GMT

Our next stop on the Meditation Now tour, 2002, takes us to the University of Quebec, Montreal, QC, where S.N. Goenka discusses Vipassana meditation.

Meditation Now Talk with Q&A
University of Quebec
Recorded July 26, 2002
90 minutes

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S.N. Goenka - Meditation Now tour
(Southam Hall, Ottawa, ON)

podcasts@pariyatti.org (podcasts@pariyatti.org) — Fri, 17 Jul 2009 23:14:00 GMT

Our next stop on the Meditation Now tour, 2002, takes us to Southam Hall, Ottawa, ON, where S.N. Goenka discusses Vipassana meditation.

Meditation Now Talk with Q&A
Southam Hall
Recorded July 24, 2002
69 minutes

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S.N. Goenka - Meditation Now tour
(Cardinal Carter Academy, Toronto, ON)

podcasts@pariyatti.org (podcasts@pariyatti.org) — Mon, 15 Jun 2009 23:50:00 GMT

Our next stop on the Meditation Now tour, 2002, takes us to the Cardinal Carter Academy, Toronto, ON, where S.N. Goenka discusses Vipassana meditation.

Meditation Now Talk with Q&A
Cardinal Carter Academy
Recorded July 20, 2002
90 minutes

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S.N. Goenka - Meditation Now tour
(Fluno Center, Madison, WI)

podcasts@pariyatti.org (podcasts@pariyatti.org) — Fri, 15 May 2009 23:16:00 GMT

Our next stop on the Meditation Now tour, 2002, takes us to the Fluno Center, Madison, WI, where S.N. Goenka discusses Vipassana meditation.

Meditation Now Talk with Q&A
Fluno Center
Recorded July 17, 2002
59 minutes

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S.N. Goenka - Meditation Now at the James Simpson Theater, Chicago, IL

podcasts@pariyatti.org (podcasts@pariyatti.org) — Wed, 15 Apr 2009 02:10:00 GMT

Our next stop on the Meditation Now tour, 2002, takes us to the James Simpson Theater, Chicago, IL, where S.N. Goenka discusses Vipassana meditation.

Meditation Now Talk with Q&A
James Simpson Theater
Recorded July 14, 2002
62 minutes

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S.N. Goenka - Meditation Now at the Hindu Temple, Chicago, IL

podcasts@pariyatti.org (podcasts@pariyatti.org) — Sun, 15 Mar 2009 02:14:00 GMT

Our next stop on the Meditation Now tour, 2002, takes us to the Hindu Temple, Chicago, IL, where S.N. Goenka discusses Vipassana meditation.

Meditation Now Talk with Q&A
Hindu Temple
Recorded July 14, 2002
70 minutes

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S.N. Goenka - Meditation Now at Ted Mann Hall, St Paul, MN

podcasts@pariyatti.org (podcasts@pariyatti.org) — Mon, 16 Feb 2009 03:17:00 GMT

Our next stop on the Meditation Now tour, 2002, takes us to Ted Mann Hall, St Paul, MN, where S.N. Goenka discusses Vipassana meditation.

Meditation Now Talk with Q&A
Ted Mann Hall
Recorded July 12, 2002

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S.N. Goenka - Meditation Now at the University of Montana

podcasts@pariyatti.org (podcasts@pariyatti.org) — Thu, 15 Jan 2009 03:20:00 GMT

Our next stop on the Meditation Now tour, 2002, takes us to the University of Montana, Missoula, MT, where S.N. Goenka discusses Vipassana meditation.

Meditation Now Talk with Q&A
University of Montana
Recorded July 8, 2002

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S.N. Goenka - Meditation Now at City Hall, Edmonton, AB

podcasts@pariyatti.org (podcasts@pariyatti.org) — Sun, 14 Dec 2008 06:20:00 GMT

Our next stop on the Meditation Now tour, 2002, takes us to City Hall, Edmonton, AB Canada, where S.N. Goenka discusses Vipassana meditation.

Meditation Now Talk with Q&A
City Hall
Recorded July 5, 2002
72 minutes

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Dr. Paul Fleischman - Karma & Chaos

podcasts@pariyatti.org (podcasts@pariyatti.org) — Fri, 14 Nov 2008 06:21:00 GMT

Today we bring you audio and video of a talk given by Dr. Paul Fleischman while he was in Europe in December 2007. In this talk he discusses Karma and Chaos and how they are relevant to Vipassana mediation.

Karma & Chaos
Recorded December 2007
68 minutes

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S.N. Goenka - Meditation Now at the Metropolitan Center, Calgary, AB

podcasts@pariyatti.org (podcasts@pariyatti.org) — Tue, 14 Oct 2008 05:24:00 GMT

Our next stop on the Meditation Now tour, 2002, takes us to the Metropolitan Center, Calgary, AB Canada, where S.N. Goenka discusses Vipassana meditation.

Meditation Now Talk with Q&A
Metropolitan Center
Recorded July 3, 2002
74 minutes

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S.N. Goenka - Meditation Now at the Conservatory of Music, Victoria, BC

podcasts@pariyatti.org (podcasts@pariyatti.org) — Sun, 14 Sep 2008 05:25:00 GMT

Our next stop on the Meditation Now tour, 2002, takes us to the Conservatory of Music in Victoria, BC, Canada, where S.N. Goenka discusses Vipassana meditation.

Meditation Now Talk with Q&A
Conservatory of Music
Recorded June 26, 2002
64 minutes

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S.N. Goenka - Meditation Now at the Plaza of Nations, Vancouver, BC - English/Mandarin

podcasts@pariyatti.org (podcasts@pariyatti.org) — Sun, 17 Aug 2008 05:27:00 GMT

Our next stop on the Meditation Now tour, 2002, takes us to the Plaza of Nations in Vancouver, BC, Canada, where S.N. Goenka discusses Vipassana meditation. This is a bilingual talk presented in English and Mandarin.

Meditation Now Talk with Q&A
Plaza of Nations (English / Mandarin)
Recorded June 25, 2002
97 minutes

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S.N. Goenka - Meditation Now at the Plaza of Nations, Vancouver, BC

podcasts@pariyatti.org (podcasts@pariyatti.org) — Mon, 14 Jul 2008 05:29:00 GMT

Our next stop on the Meditation Now tour, 2002, takes us to the Plaza of Nations in Vancouver, BC, Canada, where S.N. Goenka discusses Vipassana meditation.

Meditation Now Talk with Q&A
Plaza of Nations
Recorded June 24, 2002
87 minutes

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Q. & A. with S. N. Goenka in Berkeley, CA

podcasts@pariyatti.org (podcasts@pariyatti.org) — Sat, 14 Jun 2008 05:30:00 GMT

Today we bring you a 16-minute question and answer session with S.N. Goenka while he was in Berkeley, California on June 8, 2002.

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Runtime: 16 minutes

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S.N. Goenka - Meditation Now at the Seattle Town Hall

podcasts@pariyatti.org (podcasts@pariyatti.org) — Wed, 14 May 2008 05:34:00 GMT

Our next stop on the Meditation Now tour, 2002, takes us to the Seattle Town Hall, where S.N. Goenka discusses Vipassana meditation.

Meditation Now Talk with Q&A
Seattle Town Hall
Recorded June 21, 2002
67 minutes

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S.N. Goenka - Meditation Now at the Rainier Club, Seattle

podcasts@pariyatti.org (podcasts@pariyatti.org) — Mon, 14 Apr 2008 05:35:00 GMT

Our next stop on the Meditation Now tour, 2002, takes us to the Rainier Club, Seattle, where S.N. Goenka discusses Vipassana meditation.

Meditation Now Talk with Q&A
Rainier Club, Seattle
Recorded June 20, 2002
43 minutes

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S.N. Goenka - Meditation Now in Lacey, WA

podcasts@pariyatti.org (podcasts@pariyatti.org) — Fri, 14 Mar 2008 05:36:00 GMT

Our next stop on the Meditation Now tour, 2002, takes us to St. Martins College, Lacey, WA, where S.N. Goenka discusses Vipassana meditation.

Meditation Now Talk with Q&A
Lacey, WA
Recorded June 19, 2002
78 minutes

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Islands of Dhamma

podcasts@pariyatti.org (podcasts@pariyatti.org) — Tue, 26 Feb 2008 06:38:00 GMT

Update Feb 25th: Please note we have updated the video file that is available to download. This new file will play on an iPod.

This 42-minute documentary film entitled Islands of Dhamma is a tour of several of the many Vipassana centers worldwide. It was produced in 1995.

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Runtime: 42 minutes

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S.N. Goenka - Meditation Now in Portland, OR

podcasts@pariyatti.org (podcasts@pariyatti.org) — Mon, 14 Jan 2008 06:39:00 GMT

Our next stop on the Meditation Now tour, 2002, takes us to Smith Memorial Center, Portland State University, Portland, OR, where S.N. Goenka discusses Vipassana meditation.

Meditation Now Talk with Q&A
Portland, OR
Recorded June 18, 2002
70 minutes

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S.N. Goenka - Meditation Now in Ashland, OR

podcasts@pariyatti.org (podcasts@pariyatti.org) — Fri, 14 Dec 2007 06:40:00 GMT

Our next stop on the Meditation Now tour, 2002, takes us to Ashland, Oregon where S.N. Goenka discusses Vipassana meditation.

Meditation Now Talk with Q&A
Ashland, OR
Recorded June 15, 2002
71 minutes

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Talk and Q&A from Paul Fleischman's 2006 Europe tour

podcasts@pariyatti.org (podcasts@pariyatti.org) — Thu, 15 Nov 2007 00:20:00 GMT

A talk and Q&A from Paul Fleischman's 2006 Europe tour.

Paul Fleischman
Barcelona, Spain
May 2006
38 minutes

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S.N. Goenka - Meditation Now in Ft. Bragg, CA

podcasts@pariyatti.org (podcasts@pariyatti.org) — Sun, 14 Oct 2007 23:22:00 GMT

Our next stop on the Meditation Now tour, 2002, takes us to Eagle's Hall, Ft. Bragg, CA, where S.N. Goenka discusses Vipassana meditation.

Meditation Now Talk with Q&A
Ft. Bragg, CA
Recorded June 12, 2002
72 minutes

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S.N. Goenka - Meditation Now in Rohnert Park, CA

podcasts@pariyatti.org (podcasts@pariyatti.org) — Fri, 14 Sep 2007 23:23:00 GMT

Our next stop on the Meditation Now tour, 2002, takes us to the Person Theatre, Rohnert Park, CA, where S.N. Goenka discusses Vipassana meditation.

Meditation Now Talk with Q&A
Rohnert Park, CA
June 10, 2002
79 minutes

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Richard Crutcher - Loka: the Buddha's Formulation of the Universe

podcasts@pariyatti.org (podcasts@pariyatti.org) — Tue, 14 Aug 2007 23:24:00 GMT

A talk from the second "Insights From an Ancient Tradition" conference, held at the Vipassana Meditation Center (Dhamma Dhara), Shelburne, Mass., September, 2000.

Richard Crutcher
Shelbourne, MA
September 2000
53 minutes

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S.N. Goenka - Meditation Now in Berkeley, CA

podcasts@pariyatti.org (podcasts@pariyatti.org) — Sat, 14 Jul 2007 23:25:00 GMT

Our next stop on the Meditation Now tour, 2002, takes us to the Berkeley Community Theater, Berkeley, CA, where S.N. Goenka discusses Vipassana meditation.

Meditation Now Talk with Q&A
Berkeley, CA
Recorded June 8, 2002
72 minutes

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S.N. Goenka - Meditation Now in Cupertino, CA

podcasts@pariyatti.org (podcasts@pariyatti.org) — Fri, 15 Jun 2007 23:27:00 GMT

Our next stop on the Meditation Now tour, 2002, takes us to the Flint Center, De Anza College, Cupertino, CA, where S.N. Goenka discusses Vipassana meditation.

Meditation Now Talk with Q&A
Cupertino, CA
Recorded June 7, 2002
74 minutes

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Hill of Dhamma

podcasts@pariyatti.org (podcasts@pariyatti.org) — Mon, 14 May 2007 23:29:00 GMT

Rising above a small village named Igatpuri which is Northeast of Mumbai (Bombay), India, is the Vipassana International Academy, also known as Dhamma Giri or Hill of Dhamma. Thousands of people from all over the world come here to practice and study Vipassana meditation, a simple, practical method for achieving real peace of mind. Ten-day courses in Vipassana are taught here, and at more than 100 other Centers worldwide, by Mr. S. N. Goenka and his assistant teachers.

This 16-minute documentary film entitled Hill of Dhamma tells about the the technique of Vipassana itself, the 10 day courses and Dhamma Giri the first Center to be established in India after this technique was returned from Myanmar (formerly Burma) where it has been preserved for over 2,000 years.

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Runtime: 18 minutes

A video of this film may be purchased in English and Mandarin

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S.N. Goenka - Meditation Now in Fresno, CA

podcasts@pariyatti.org (podcasts@pariyatti.org) — Sat, 14 Apr 2007 23:30:00 GMT

Our next stop on the Meditation Now tour, 2002, takes us to the Tower Theatre, CA, where S.N. Goenka discusses Vipassana meditation.

Meditation Now Talk with Q&A
Tower Theatre, CA
Recorded June 4, 2002
69 minutes

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S.N. Goenka - Meditation Now in Los Angeles, CA

podcasts@pariyatti.org (podcasts@pariyatti.org) — Wed, 14 Mar 2007 23:32:00 GMT

Our next stop on the Meditation Now tour, 2002, takes us to the Wadsworth Theatre, CA, where S.N. Goenka discusses Vipassana meditation.

Meditation Now Talk with Q&A
Wadsworth Theatre, CA
Recorded June 1, 2002
70 minutes

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Dr. Gerhard Scholz & Dr. Urban Studer in Shelburne, MA

podcasts@pariyatti.org (podcasts@pariyatti.org) — Thu, 15 Feb 2007 00:33:00 GMT

A talk from the 1999 "Insights from an Ancient Tradition" seminar held in Shelbourne Falls, MA, Integrating Vipassana Meditation and professional addiction therapy.

Dr. Gerhard Scholz & Dr. Urban Studer
Shelburne, MA
6 September 1999
59 minutes

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S.N. Goenka - Meditation Now in Irvine, CA

podcasts@pariyatti.org (podcasts@pariyatti.org) — Mon, 15 Jan 2007 00:34:00 GMT

Our next stop on the Meditation Now tour, 2002, takes us to the Irvine Stake Center, CA, where S.N. Goenka discusses Vipassana meditation. This talk is bilingual English and Mandarin.

Meditation Now Talk with Q&A
Irvine Stake Center, CA
Recorded May 31, 2002
64 minutes
Bilingual English-Mandarin

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S.N. Goenka - Meditation Now in San Diego, CA

podcasts@pariyatti.org (podcasts@pariyatti.org) — Sat, 16 Dec 2006 00:36:00 GMT

Our next stop on the Meditation Now tour, 2002, takes us to San Diego University, CA, where S.N. Goenka discusses Vipassana meditation.

Meditation Now Talk with Q&A
San Diego University, CA
Recorded May 30, 2002
73 minutes

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CBC Outfront - Aziza Sindhu

podcasts@pariyatti.org (podcasts@pariyatti.org) — Thu, 16 Nov 2006 00:37:00 GMT

This month: a radio show by Aziza Sindhu regarding her experience at a Vipassana Meditation course. Originally aired on CBC Outfront on January 25, 2005.

Duration: 15 minutes.

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S.N. Goenka - Meditation Now in Denver, CO

podcasts@pariyatti.org (podcasts@pariyatti.org) — Sat, 14 Oct 2006 23:38:00 GMT

Our next stop on the Meditation Now tour, 2002, takes us to Westin Hotel, Denver, CO, where S.N. Goenka discusses Vipassana meditation.

Meditation Now Talk with Q&A
Westin Hotel, Denver, CO
Recorded May 24, 2002
66 minutes

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The Great Global Pagoda

podcasts@pariyatti.org (podcasts@pariyatti.org) — Fri, 15 Sep 2006 23:39:00 GMT

Great Global Pagoda (video)
www.globalpagoda.org

This 16-minute film offers a stunning look at the Global Pagoda being built on the outskirts of Mumbai, India's most populous city. It is a modern wonder of engineering and vision. Architecturally, this building will be by far the largest single-span stone dome in the world, twice as big as the Basilica of St. Peter at the Vatican. Computer-guided stone saws are at work beside craftsmen using timeless chisel and hammer techniques.

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The Global Pagoda pays tribute to Myanmar for safeguarding the Dhamma by reflecting the outer form of its famous Shwedagon Pagoda. However this pagoda is being built as a hollow structure that will seat 9,000 for meditation, and feature a gallery with educational panels and displays to inform visitors about the matchless contribution of the Buddha to human history. Thus it is intended to serve as a beacon of practice and education for multitudes, for centuries to come.

The placement of the keystone by which the dome shall be closed (in which the relics of the Buddha shall be placed) will occur on October 29, 2006. For this function the respected Sangha of various Buddhist countries has been invited.

Publisher: Karuna Films
Publication Date: July, 2005

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S.N. Goenka - Meditation Now in Dallas, TX

podcasts@pariyatti.org (podcasts@pariyatti.org) — Tue, 15 Aug 2006 23:41:00 GMT

Our next stop on the Meditation Now tour, 2002, takes us to Weisfield Center, Dallas, TX, where S.N. Goenka discusses Vipassana meditation.

Meditation Now Talk with Q&A
Weisfield Center, Dallas, TX
Recorded May 19, 2002
60 minutes

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A Simple Path

podcasts@pariyatti.org (podcasts@pariyatti.org) — Sat, 15 Jul 2006 23:42:00 GMT

Today we bring you a 21-minute video with excerpts of an interview with S.N. Goenka while he was visiting the Vipassana Meditation Center in Belgium on August 10, 2002.

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S.N. Goenka - Meditation Now at Charlotte, NC

podcasts@pariyatti.org (podcasts@pariyatti.org) — Wed, 14 Jun 2006 23:43:00 GMT

Our next stop on the Meditation Now tour, 2002, takes us to Hindu Temple in Charlotte, NC, where S.N. Goenka discusses Vipassana meditation.

Meditation Now Talk with Q&A
Hindu Temple, Charlotte, NC
Recorded May 13, 2002
68 minutes

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Vivian Snyder in Shelburne, MA

podcasts@pariyatti.org (podcasts@pariyatti.org) — Sun, 14 May 2006 23:45:00 GMT

A talk from the 1999 "Insights from an Ancient Tradition" seminar held in Shelbourne Falls, MA, Different Kinds of Minds is a discussion of ADHD and ways that Vipassana Meditation can help with treatment.

Vivian Snyder
Shelburne, MA
5 September 1999
60 minutes

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A follow up to this 1999 "Insights from an Ancient Tradition" conference was held in 2000. The audio from the 2000 conference may be purchased here.

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S.N. Goenka - Meditation Now at Kennett Square, PA

podcasts@pariyatti.org (podcasts@pariyatti.org) — Fri, 14 Apr 2006 23:46:00 GMT

Our next stop on the Meditation Now tour, 2002, takes us to Unionville High School, Kennett Square, PA, where S.N. Goenka discusses Vipassana meditation.

Meditation Now Talk with Q&A
Unionville High School, Kennett Square, PA
Recorded May 10, 2002
80 minutes

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S.N. Goenka - Meditation Now at Interfaith Center, NY

podcasts@pariyatti.org (podcasts@pariyatti.org) — Thu, 16 Mar 2006 00:47:00 GMT

Our next stop on the Meditation Now tour, 2002, takes us to Interfaith Center, New York, where S.N. Goenka discusses Vipassana meditation.

Meditation Now public talk with Q&A
Interfaith Center, NY
Recorded May 8th, 2002
56 minutes

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S.N. Goenka - Meditation Now at Rutgers University

podcasts@pariyatti.org (podcasts@pariyatti.org) — Thu, 16 Feb 2006 00:49:00 GMT

Our next stop on the Meditation Now tour, 2002, takes us to Rutgers University in New Brunswick, New Jersey, where S.N. Goenka discusses Vipassana meditation.

Meditation Now Public Talk with Q&A
Rutgers University,
New Brunswick, NJ, May 6, 2002
75:30 minutes

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Radio Interview with Paul Fleischman

podcasts@pariyatti.org (podcasts@pariyatti.org) — Sun, 15 Jan 2006 00:50:00 GMT

This month: a radio interview with Dr. Paul Fleischman regarding Vipassana Meditation. Recorded by UMFM in Febuary 2003 on the "Natural Health show" with Dr. Sims and Dr. Shreader. Reproduced and submitted with approval from UMFM. Copyright Protected. 30 minutes.

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S.N. Goenka - Kripalu Yoga Center

podcasts@pariyatti.org (podcasts@pariyatti.org) — Thu, 15 Dec 2005 00:51:00 GMT

Our next stop on the Meditation Now tour, 2002, takes us to Kripalu Yoga Center in Lennox, Massachusetts, where S.N. Goenka discusses Vipassana meditation.

S.N. Goenka Public Talk and Q&A
Recorded April 29, 2002
75 minutes

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S.N. Goenka - Meditation Now at Brookline, MA

podcasts@pariyatti.org (podcasts@pariyatti.org) — Tue, 15 Nov 2005 00:52:00 GMT

Our next stop on the Meditation Now tour, 2002, takes us to Brookline High School in Brookline, Massachusetts, where S.N. Goenka discusses Vipassana meditation.

S.N. Goenka Public Talk and Q&A
Recorded April 26, 2002
65 minutes

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S.N. Goenka - Meditation Now at Columbia

podcasts@pariyatti.org (podcasts@pariyatti.org) — Tue, 11 Oct 2005 23:53:00 GMT

Our first stop on the Meditation Now tour, 2002, takes us to Lerner Hall at Columbia University, where S.N. Goenka discusses Vipassana meditation.

S.N. Goenka Public Talk and Q&A
Recorded April 23, 2002
74 minutes

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