Deliberate Mindfulness and Effortless Mindfulness

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In the gradual path many meditative approaches offer, effortless mindfulness is considered an advanced practice. However, I contend that it can be just as easy for beginners to learn as deliberate mindfulness.

This Very Moment: Teaching, Thinking, Dancing

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Dance involves personal transmission from one practitioner to another, and it spans generations, like Indian classical music, like the living ancient arts of all cultures, like Buddhist teachings.

Feeling at Home on the Path: An Interview with Ethan Nichtern

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As Buddhist practices and philosophy attract renewed interest in these quickening postmodern times, where’s the curious explorer of consciousness to start? Ethan Nichtern has written a guide that contextualizes ancient teachings while making them accessible to a contemporary audience.

Home Sweet Samsara

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Creating one’s own personal Buddhism, personal yoga, personal interpretations without relying on original teachings seems to be putting people off course. There is a need to return to fundamentals as they were originally taught, not as people might want them to be taught.

Buddhism and Psychedelics

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In 2012, an important discussion took place between Rev. Kokyo Henkel and James Fadiman, Ph.D. on the intersections between psychedelic experience and Buddhist practice and insight.

NAB Communities Podcast Interview: Ellen Pearlman

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Ellen Pearlman is a founder of The Brooklyn Rail and is affiliated with nine Utne Independent Press Awards. We ask Pearlman about her recent book, Nothing and Everything: The Influence of Buddhism on the American Avant-Garde.

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