My good friend Sam, who organises MedMob Sydney, and I are teaming up to organise a MASSIVE gathering for ‘The Moment of Peace’ this year at the famous Bondi Beach. Please see this flyer. Spread the word and we look forward to meeting you down at the beach at 6:30pm. We’ll be starting a little ...
Often we believe in our experiences as if they are convincing and compelling realities. In this way we remain stuck in them, bound by their sense of realness and the compulsion they drive within us. So here is a practice to help release that effect they have in our lives. It is very helpful to ...
Meditation for Parenting. Learn Meditation and Buddhism Principles for Parenting and Raising Young Children Raising kids is one of the toughest jobs in the world! Filled with uncertainty, frustrations, anger, sleep deprivation, tantrums, exhaustion, worry, no me-time and sometimes loneliness and hatred, parenting stretches us and pushes us past boundaries we never thought possible. Not only does ...
It is interesting if we reflect upon our lives and notice the cycles we go through, we see that we shift through phases of discomfort and then work to get ourselves to a place of stability again. Looking at this we tend to notice different drivers, or internal forces, within us that perpetuate this cycle. This ...
It is interesting to think about the ocean, and the many millions of years it has covered the earth. In that time the continents have changed and moved many times over and countless, countless waves have rippled across on the surface of the ocean. For a brief moment they rise up, come into being, and ...
What is fear? Why is it we fear? Do we fear the wind? It is just the nature of the wind to blow. Sometimes strong, sometimes weak or subtle. The wind never bothers us, and most of the time we do not think upon it or reflect up on its nature. Yet, go and build ...
Yesterday as I walked to work from the train station I got on the escalator. Standing there on the escalator I began to meditate as I always do. Seeing the people around me I noticed them as they often do, looking into the mirror that are the walls along the escalator. In that moment I ...
We can often experience practising meditation and mindfulness as if it requires effort. When we sit to meditate we feel like we are fighing against the forces of nature itself to maintain mindfulness. In this way we can incorrectly interpret the effort of meditation almost as if it is unnatural or wrong, but this is ...
We all seek happiness. In all our activities there is this underlying drive that appears as a belief or thought that what we are doing will make us happy. In the really bad times, we are still driven to act out in ways that we hope will eventually lead to happiness. And when we are ...
I’ve been sitting here on the train contemplating generosity and how it appears in our life and how we can apply it so that I could start to write this article. Then, just now, as we pulled into a station a disabled person sitting near to me had to get off the train. Me and ...
In the article Mindfulness and the Meditation Object I spoke about several parts that are important in our overall progression and development of meditation. Some aspects of that I spoke about again in Meditation Tip #26 – Stabilising the Mind and Investigation. Following on from that I want to restate another point that is important to be aware. While ...
What is an article about psychic powers, ghosts and other worlds doing in a blog about the practical application of meditation and Buddhism? Well I’ll explain. I’ve been contemplating this topic and about writing this article for a few weeks now but have other more important things to write about, although some recent events have me ...
Something we don’t often think about or realise is the importance and effect a choice of meditation object can have to our meditation and how if we don’t pick the right object for the level of mindfulness we are at then it can affect the further development of our meditation. This can also affect our ability ...
For a long time when I was practicing meditation and Buddhism I had no real understanding what contemplation meant. “When I’m thinking about something is that contemplation?” Or is thought something else? I also was a bit unsure of what wisdom was opposed to a thought or opposed to an insight. ”Was a thought I was having a ...
People won’t often ask a teacher directly “Are you enlightened?” and if they do they are usually met with an answer they don’t expect or that seems hard to understand. The reason isn’t because the teacher isn’t enlightened, the problem inherently is the question and trying to explain the whole nature of existence clearly after such a ...
The other day I wrote an article called An Exploration of Desires and Sensual Pleasures, and by sensual pleasures I mean desire for any of the senses – desire for pleasant touch, tastes, sounds, smells, and sights. Today I want to talk more about desires for touch and fulfilment of those sexual feelings – not just with others ...
Tonight I came across this forum post about someone asking if Buddhism is a Religion or Philosophy. It is really interesting, enlightening and entertaining reading all the responses (before it just turns into another forum thread that goes widely off-track). Anyway, the forum post is worth a read for the different perspectives it reveals. I want to ...
Me meditating in the cave on day two For some months I’ve wanted to plan some time to retreat away and the Santi Forest Monastery provides the perfect setting for me being just over an hours drive away. Through affiliations with my teachers I was able to organise a stay at the monastery for a ...
Anger was something quite foreign to me through my childhood. I had to really be pushed to breaking point before I’d get angry at all. In my 20′s I had to teach myself to be angrier to be more assertive (or so I thought). Like any learning curve I didn’t always get this right and ...
Over the years during my meditation practice I’ve had many, many insights. At first they are like “Wow, I can’t believe it!” and the insight completely changes your view on things. Then some months later another insight and again it alters your view of how things are yet again. As this process happens over and ...
My good friend Sam, who organises MedMob Sydney, and I are teaming up to organise a MASSIVE gathering for ‘The Moment of Peace’ this year at the famous Bondi Beach. Please see this flyer. Spread the word and we look forward to meeting you down at the beach at 6:30pm. We’ll be starting a little …
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// Ill-will, Unintentional Malice and Forgiveness AU$5.00 // This is the first in a series of talks by Jagaro on The Five Hindrances. Ill-will, anger, annoyance, hatred are common emotions and reactions in our lives. They are all forms of aversion, a negative response to something we interact with in the world, and a shift …
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Often we believe in our experiences as if they are convincing and compelling realities. In this way we remain stuck in them, bound by their sense of realness and the compulsion they drive within us. So here is a practice to help release that effect they have in our lives. It is very helpful to …
Read more »// Foundations of Mindfulness and Insight Meditation – Audio AU$5.00 // What is insight and how does it occur? In this audio Jagaro discusses The Four Foundations of Mindfulness and what Insight Meditation is, and uses some wonderfully simple analogies to explain the process of awakening to the truth of reality. He also discusses the …
Read more »xProductThumbnail(‘productid=9061283′); Morality, The Five Precepts, and Spiritual Development AU$5.00 xAddToBag(‘productid=9061283′); In the previous talk, Jagaro discussed Moods, Attitudes, Approaches and Morality and how through living morally our life gradually shifts from being influenced by our moods and attitudes to living a more peaceful life. In this audio, Jagaro discusses in more detail how we can …
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Meditation for Parenting. Learn Meditation and Buddhism Principles for Parenting and Raising Young Children Raising kids is one of the toughest jobs in the world! Filled with uncertainty, frustrations, anger, sleep deprivation, tantrums, exhaustion, worry, no me-time and sometimes loneliness and hatred, parenting stretches us and pushes us past boundaries we never thought possible. Not only does …
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While the title of this tip may seem obvious, like turning off the TV or going to a quiet room away from the other family members to remove external sound distraction during meditation, this is not what this tip is about. Often, one of the larger hindrances to doing meditation is often starting it in …
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Generosity is a very important aspect of meditation practice and not only brings a joy within but also allows us to practice letting go of self and self-attachments. A student in the US has kindly sent me a few copies of Adyashanti’s new book True Meditation. To pass on this token of generosity, I’ll be …
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In 2011 I had the pleasure of meeting and discussing Buddhism and life over tea with Dr. Rick Hanson with my teacher John Barter. It was a really lovely day. He has recently released a new book called Just One Thing: Developing a Buddha Brain One Simple Practice at a Time which is a series of …
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There is a Beginner’s Class happening on Wednesday 18th January 2012 at 8:00pm. This workshop will give will not only show you how to meditate, and how to set up a regular practice, but will give you a very practical understanding of how meditation actually works. Jagaro’s ways of explaining meditation, and the metaphor he uses, makes …
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