Article: A Buddhist Approach to Disillusionment

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A Buddhist Approach to Disillusionment
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Fight Injustice

There are many injustices in this world that should not be simply tolerated. While tolerence is good in certain instances, there are times when it unwise to simply ‘tolerate and wait,’ as this can cause a lot of harm to oneself and/or others. However it is important to do this while not sinking to the level [...]

Article: A Buddhist Approach to Time Management

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Avoid Aimless Thinking

The importance of avoiding thinking during meditation can never be over-emphasised. Aimless and pointless thinking, especially when ill-will (vyapda), aversion (dosa), greed/desire (lobha), delusion (moha) and other such negative forces are involved, clouds the mind and makes it diffused. To gain a state of concentration and peace (samadhi) during meditation, all thinking must be ceased. [...]

Balancing Kindness

It is important to balance kindness (metta) with wisdom (panna) when living among others. Otherwise one may find one’s kindness being taken advantage of and abused leading one to great suffering (dukkha). So know whom, when and how best to help, and also when its best not to help at all.
    Buddhism (Dhamma) is not blind religion. There [...]

Let the Body Breathe on its Own

Let the body breathe on its own. Have you realized how tense the stomach is/can be and how we try to regulate/control the breath? This can be best noticed when doing the awareness of breath (ana-pana-sati) meditation. So rather  than trying to breathe, relax the body and especially the stomach and let the body breathe [...]

Article: An Introduction to Buddhist Meditation

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Thought Addictions

It is possible to get addicted to thoughts! Some are addicted to sensual (lobha) thoughts, memories of past sensual activties conducted (e.g. going to a party and pleasing the eye, ear, nose, tongue, body and mind). Others get addicted to angry (dosa) thoughts, where they think of some malicious thing they did/want to do over and over [...]

Avoiding Re-Runs

Don’t re-run past episodes of mistakes in the mind. This is like re-living that moment over and over again; its not good for the mind, or for happiness and well-being.
    Learn from whatever mistakes have been made, throw out the memory from the mind and move forward. Meditation helps a lot with this.
    During the [...]

Delaying the Response

The importance of delaying a response to a problem can never be over-emphasized; that is if this is possible and safe to do so.
    What is meant by ‘delaying a response’ here is taking time out to look at the situation at hand, taking as much time as practically possible to think, contemplate and formulate [...]