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Meditate to liberate: March 2013
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Instructions on how to liberate yourself from mental suffering. Thursday, March 21, 2013. Opening to insight- kamma and rebirth. Next to the concept of non-self, perhaps the most misunderstood concept in Buddhism is the concept of kamma. In Sanskrit) and rebirth. Rebirth occurs with every moment. Actually, there is no self to be reborn. What carries over from one moment to the next is the consequences of previous actions. Fundamentally, kamma. And the subsequent mind is the result of that kamma. Is only ...
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Meditate to liberate: Just as it is: the meditative experience
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Instructions on how to liberate yourself from mental suffering. Saturday, March 28, 2015. Just as it is: the meditative experience. Alan P. McAllister. April 30, 2015 at 1:17 AM. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). Just as it is: the meditative experience. Dr McAllister's psychology practice. Alan P. McAllister. View my complete profile. Awesome Inc. template. Powered by Blogger.
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Meditate to liberate: August 2012
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Instructions on how to liberate yourself from mental suffering. Thursday, August 16, 2012. The image of waves is helpful in understanding the happenings we observe while we meditate. The image of a wave is useful because it captures the rising and falling of these discrete happenings. Waves have properties of amplitude (how big they are) and frequency (how fast they occur). There are big slow waves, small slow waves, big fast waves, small fast waves and everything in between. Alan P. McAllister. The most...
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Meditate to liberate: January 2014
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Instructions on how to liberate yourself from mental suffering. Tuesday, January 14, 2014. Opening to insight: the mundane and beyond. When we first start meditating, we may alternate between being bored and being excited. We might initially think that just sitting observing our breath would be very boring. What is so interesting about the breath anyway? In the secular, clinical form of mindfulness that has become so prevalent, the spiritual side of the practice is neglected, hence the doldurms. To g...
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Meditate to liberate: What is this now?
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Instructions on how to liberate yourself from mental suffering. Tuesday, July 28, 2015. What is this now? From the vantage point of experience, the present alone is real. The past has happened and is just a memory, the future is yet to happen and can only be imagined. However, if this now is the boundary between the past and future, is it a boundary with width, or is it an indivisible, infinitely thin line? How can we be "in" the present when it never is "there" long enough? Alan P. McAllister.
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Bancroft meditates: Spring Meditation Workshop Theme: Purposeful attention
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This blog chronicles the activities of a meditation group in Bancroft, Ontario and provides instruction in insight meditation. Meditation concepts are explained in terms of Western psychology and in terms of the Buddhist concepts from which this style of meditation derives. Dr. Alan McAllister, a psychologist practicing in Bancroft, is the author of the blog and the facilitator of the group which meets periodically for 8-10 sessions twice a year. How to read the posts. Blog archive on the lower right.
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Bancroft meditates: March 2013
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This blog chronicles the activities of a meditation group in Bancroft, Ontario and provides instruction in insight meditation. Meditation concepts are explained in terms of Western psychology and in terms of the Buddhist concepts from which this style of meditation derives. Dr. Alan McAllister, a psychologist practicing in Bancroft, is the author of the blog and the facilitator of the group which meets periodically for 8-10 sessions twice a year. How to read the posts. Blog archive on the lower right.
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Bancroft meditates: July 2013
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This blog chronicles the activities of a meditation group in Bancroft, Ontario and provides instruction in insight meditation. Meditation concepts are explained in terms of Western psychology and in terms of the Buddhist concepts from which this style of meditation derives. Dr. Alan McAllister, a psychologist practicing in Bancroft, is the author of the blog and the facilitator of the group which meets periodically for 8-10 sessions twice a year. How to read the posts. Blog archive on the lower right.
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Meditate to liberate: July 2013
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Instructions on how to liberate yourself from mental suffering. Thursday, July 18, 2013. Householders and renunciates in modern times. Some of his talks can be downloaded at the following site: http:/ sasanarakkha.org/dhamma/. Alan P. McAllister. Wednesday, July 17, 2013. Contemplating non-self through the six sense bases. From the Numerical Discources (The Book of the Tens, Sutta 60, p. 1412), translated by Bhikkhu Bodhi:. And what, Ananda, is the perception of non-self? Alan P. McAllister. Herein, monk...