Social Media Dharma

http://www.tricycle.com/blog/social-media-dharma


by Chris Towery, January 21, 2016

Social Media Dharma

Rather than viewing Facebook as a meaningless distraction, why not observe how we get caught up in and controlled by our mental and physical sensations online?


Related: Mindful Tech: How to Bring Balance to Our Digital Lives

Secular Buddhist Association : Basic Meditation Instructions

http://secularbuddhism.org/meditation-support/basic-meditation-instructions/

Secular Buddhist Association : Basic Meditation Instructions

Mindfulness: Helping Youth Learn to Feel Emotions and Choose Their Behavior

http://youthtoday.org/2015/11/mindfulness-helping-youth-learn-to-feel-emotions-and-choose-their-behavior/

Mindfulness: Helping Youth Learn to Feel Emotions and Choose Their Behavior

By Lynne Anderson

Holistic Life Foundation instructors Michelle Lee (left) and Jazmine Blackwell lead students through an exercise during an after-school yoga and meditation program at Lillie May Carroll Jackson Charter School. The instructors told the girls to pull the "weight of the room" toward them and push it back away from them.

Tricycle : Ma Moune blog by Pamela Gayle White

http://www.tricycle.com/blog/ma-moune

Ma Moune : 

How a writer met her faithful companion

Pamela Gayle White, October 06, 2015

http://www.tricycle.com/blog/special-bond

A Special Bond: 

I'm grateful for my eye-catching dog, even when I'm not. 

http://www.tricycle.com/blog/aware-assumption

Aware of Assumption

It takes a conscious effort to recognize the extent we project our motives, weaknesses, and qualities on to our selves—and our pets. 

5 Common Myths About Meditation

http://imprific.com/blog/@budkowski/5-common-myths-about-meditation/

5 Common Myths About Meditation

by Maciej Budkowski

e.Bayda: The three things we fear most

The Three Things we Fear Most

http://www.zencentersandiego.org/files/articles/tricycle2009spring_fear.pdf

HuffPost: Is There Anything Spiritual About Mindfulness?

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/chris-mayya/is-there-anything-spiritu_b_8021384.html

Is There Anything Spiritual About Mindfulness?

These days mindfulness is the buzzword. Celebrities such as Goldie Hawn, Richard Gere and Tina Turner have been some of it's strongest proponents. Mindfulness seems to be embraced in the west, more as a practice and discipline rather than as a religion, although its origin is in Buddhism. But does mindfulness have a spiritual and transformational quality to it?

Wake Up Schools: Cultivating Mindfulness in Education

http://wakeupschools.org/

Wake Up Schools: Cultivating Mindfulness in Education

A global vision to walk the path of compassion, peace and joy in education through the practice of mindfulness.

'Happy Teachers Will Change the World' is a film about teachers learning mindfulness, true transformation and happiness.

Watch it. Get inspired. Be the change.

By artist/ filmmaker Wouter Verhoeven.

What did the Buddha really mean by “mindfulness?”

http://sgforums.com/forums/1728/topics/489246

What did the Buddha really mean by “mindfulness?” B. Alan Wallace describes how misunderstanding the term can have implications for your practice.

B. Alan Wallace tricycle

Buddhist scholar and teacher B. Alan Wallace is a prolific author and translator of Buddhist texts. With a B.A. in both physics and the philosophy of science from Amherst College and a Ph.D. in religious studies from Stanford University, he devotes much of his time combining his interests in the study of Buddhist philosophical and contemplative traditions and their relationship to modern science

The Mindfulness Craze

The Mindfulness Craze:

by Sravasti Abbey

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K_v8v1nksGE&list=TLhulA8pSuRhQyMDA3MjAxNQ&index=2

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p4KeeGXtsds&list=TLhulA8pSuRhQyMDA3MjAxNQ

Published on Jul 19, 2015

Clarifying how the classical Buddhist presentation of mindfulness differs from how mindfulness is taught for secular purposes.

Sky News: Schoolchildren To Get 'Mindfulness Training'

http://news.sky.com/story/1519722/schoolchildren-to-get-mindfulness-training

Schoolchildren To Get 'Mindfulness Training'

Thousands will be monitored to see if the practice can help cut the risk of depression and other mental health problems.

Trycicle : On Not Being Stingy

http://www.tricycle.com/special-section/not-being-stingy

On Not Being Stingy

The Eighth Zen Precept is about more than emptying your pockets.

Sensei Nancy Mujo Baker

Lankaweb: OCD and Buddhist Psychotherapy

http://www.lankaweb.com/news/items/2015/06/22/ocd-and-buddhist-psychotherapy/

Lankaweb:

OCD and Buddhist Psychotherapy

Posted on June 22nd, 2015

Dr Ruwan M Jayatunge M.D.

Obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD) is an anxiety disorder. The DSM-IV Text Revision defines OCD as the presence of recurrent obsessions and/or compulsions that interfere substantially with daily functioning (DSM IV TR; American Psychiatric Association 2000).

Buddhism: Cultivating the Jewel of our Mind

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gKqO81gMY7A

Buddhism: Cultivating the Jewel of our Mindby Mindah-Lee Kumar

Published on Jun 14, 2015

The Buddhist teachings suggest we have a mind that is luminous and precious (like a diamond) and that our happiness depends on us cultivating this jewel within. Drawing on the Buddha’s sutras, I show how finding this jewel of our mind requires effort, patience and a willingness to go against the flow of what society calls happiness.

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Sutras used in this video:
"Nava Sutta: The Ship" (SN 22.101), translated from the Pali by Thanissaro Bhikkhu. Access to Insight (Legacy Edition), 30 November 2013,http://www.accesstoinsight.org/tipita....
"Anusota Sutta: With the Flow" (AN 4.5), translated from the Pali by Thanissaro Bhikkhu. Access to Insight (Legacy Edition), 3 July 2010,http://www.accesstoinsight.org/tipita....
"Kuta Sutta: Gabled" (SN 56.44), translated from the Pali by Thanissaro Bhikkhu. Access to Insight (Legacy Edition), 1 July 2010,http://www.accesstoinsight.org/tipita....
"Pansadhovaka Sutta: The Dirt-washer" (AN 3.100 (i-x)), translated from the Pali by Thanissaro Bhikkhu. Access to Insight (Legacy Edition), 27 September 2013,http://www.accesstoinsight.org/tipita....
"The Elimination of Anger: With two stories retold from the Buddhist texts", by Ven. K. Piyatissa Thera. Access to Insight (Legacy Edition), 30 November 2013,http://www.accesstoinsight.org/lib/au....
"Accayika Sutta: Urgent" (AN 3.91), translated from the Pali by Thanissaro Bhikkhu. Access to Insight (Legacy Edition), 10 December 2011,http://www.accesstoinsight.org/tipita....

Independent: Practice Mindfulness – says mental health charity

http://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/health-and-families/health-news/practice-mindfulness---says-mental-health-charity-10254799.html

Practice Mindfulness – says mental health charity

A mental health charity has suggested that mindfulness treatments should be more widely available on the NHS, after revealing the results of a new YouGov survey.

Tricycle: What's Ethics Got to Do with It? The misguided debate about mindfulness and morality

http://www.tricycle.com/blog/whats-ethics-got-do-it

May 14, 2015

What's Ethics Got to Do with It?

The misguided debate about mindfulness and moralityRichard K. Payne

As mindfuness has made greater inroads into public life—from hospitals, to schools, to the workplace—its growing distance from Buddhist thought and practice has become a hotly contested issue. Is mindfulness somehow deficient because it lacks Buddhist ethics, and should Buddhist ethics be replicated in mindfulness programs and workshops?

Nytimes: The Muddied Meaning of 'Mindfulness'

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/04/19/magazine/the-muddied-meaning-of-mindfulness.html?smid=fb-share

The Muddied Meaning of 'Mindfulness'

April 14, 2015, by Virginia Effernan

Patient Awareness

http://buddhismnow.com/2013/08/14/patient-awareness-by-corrado-pensa/

Patient Awareness, by Corrado Pensa

Posted on 14 August 2013 by Buddhism Now

There is this line in the gospel of Luke:
In your patience, you will own your heart. (1)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bek7DCXtV8Y

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mPddV5RSo50

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=43PsrJqnGZw

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_L5DHgStZdI

Dalai Lama - Opening the Eye of New Awareness - Audiobook 

Published on Jan 8, 2015

Dalai Lama - Opening the Eye of New Awareness - Audiobook (1 of 4)

Opening the Eye of New Awareness is a succinct, thorough overview of the doctrines of Buddhism as they have been practiced for a thousand years in Tibet. The Dalai Lama here discusses the need for religious practice and the importance of kindness and compassion. Originally written for Tibetan lay people, this was the Dalai Lama's first book on Buddhist philosophy to appear in English, and Prof. Lopez's new introduction places these teachings in their proper historical context. This is an invaluable handbook for both personal use and academic study of the Buddhist path.

"Written for both Tibetan and Western readers, Opening the Eye of New Awareness is the Dalai Lama's first religious work. It is not an edited transcript of public lectures, but is His Holliness' own summation of Buddhist doctrine and practice. Completed in 1963, just four years after his escape from Tibet and four years after completing his religious education, it is a work of consummate scholarship by a twenty-seven year-old geshe, wise beyond his years. Nowhere in his many subsequent works does one find a more clear and concise exposition of the essentials of Buddhist thought. Indeed, all of His Holinesss's many publications are in some sense commentaries on this first book."

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Mindfulness meditation – what’s all the fuss about?

http://home.bt.com/lifestyle/wellbeing/mindfulness-meditation-whats-all-the-fuss-about-11363959359180

Mindfulness meditation – what’s all the fuss about?

Celebs, wellbeing gurus and even MPs are catching the mindfulness bug. Reporter Abi Jackson heads to Westminster for the launch of the Mindful Nation UK interim report to find out more