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Here is the final meditation from the Anapanisati Sutta Silent Retreat May-June 2024

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1D-VX15F_wf4u5kniInw3L_uTK4u1-sGj/view?…

Testimonial from the Silent retreat in Solterreno Retreat Center on the Anapanasati Sutta with Bodhin
https://www.instagram.com/reel/C7v8mx8Njjj/?igsh=MXNnY2lsdXRuZ2tpZg==

WHAT DOES NEURODIVERSITY MEAN?

Neurodiversity refers to the range of natural diversity that exists in human neurodevelopment. The term originated within the neurodivergent community in the 1990s (Botha et al., 2024). People with the most common neurological profiles are referred to as neurotypical or neuromajority. People with less common profiles are referred to as neurodivergent or neurominority. A group that includes both neurotypical and neurodivergent people is called neurodiverse.

Imagine, for a moment, an electrical fire has sent a house up in flames.

Thankfully, the family all made it out, but they are still agitated — their beloved cat is still trapped inside. When a team of firefighters arrive, the children beg and plead for them to save this cat.

Here are some extracts

The Explicit MBP Curriculum

I find this video short film hugely uplifting and inspiring. Everyone who cares about the educating of children in school should watch it: The Toolbox Is You

https://youtu.be/K8o0XT9v77k

Here is a study, very recently published in JAMA Psychiatry (a top of the line, high impact scientific journal) showing quite definitively that MBSR was as effective as the top of the line drug treatment for anxiety disorders (see paper attached). We think it will inspire you in your work to know that a rigorously designed study supports what we have known for decades.

Courage

How many courageous people do you know?
What is courage after all?

To laugh when it feels like laughing,
To cry when it feels like crying,
To sing when it feels like singing,
To dance when it feels like dancing,
In the street, at work, in a hospital,
Wherever and whenever.

Resources helpful in our waking up process in relation to race and racism:

Brach, T (2016), Facing my White Privilege, The Lions Roar

Choudhury, S (2016) What We Say, Not What We Do in the The Wise Brain Bulletin, 10,1 (adapted from  Deep Diversity: Overcoming Us vs. Them by Shakil Choudhury. 2015)

A short Mindfulness retreat can improve biological markers of stress and inflammation

Anxiety is a complex, deeply rooted emotion that exerts a stronger force in our lives than we ever imagined.  Anxiety drives anxiety, and is often masked by addictions and bad habits that we cannot break. The brain gets stuck in anxiety habit loops: we continue to procrastinate, we eat the extra cookie, we binge watch Netflix. And it goes without saying that in the year of COVID our anxieties have played a starring role.

MBI-TAC-addendum-for-online-delivery.pdf

MINDFULNESS-BASED TEACHING ASSESSMENT CRITERIA (MBI-TAC)

More general MBI-TAC information:

https://mbsr.website/mbi-tac

Did the Buddha teach us to get rid of our emotions?

We may think—or even hope—that Buddhist practice will help us switch off unpleasant emotions so that we don’t have to experience them. Sorry, but emotions are part of being human! However, they don’t have to cause so much suffering.

Sytse Boonstra

Aurelie Giraud

Kalpalatha Thiyagarajan

Oana Ratiu

Lorraine Smith

Shereen T Sy

Buse Gocmen

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Denmark, Aalborg

Singapore

Budapest, Hungary

UK, Minchinhampton

Philippines, Makati City

Turkey, Istanbul

The Near and Far Enemies of Fierce Compassion

by Dr. Chris Germer

CMSC Co-Founder

September 3, 2020

Social justice work is not for the fainthearted. Now more than ever, we are obliged to acknowledge our own complicity in systems of oppression as well as to assert our individual agency to bring about a better world. Committed action by many people will eventually become a powerful force for systemic change. And yet many of us grapple with some basic questions: “What can I do?” “What should I do?”

I’ve been a student of meditative techniques and contemplative traditions for a while. I
have a decades-long personal practice and academic degrees in both religious studies and
psychology. And I have mixed feelings about the kind of attention mindfulness is currently
receiving and the ways it’s often conceptualized today in the West. On one hand, the
fact meditative practices and contemplative experiences are getting increased study I feel
is deeply beneficial and long overdue. On another, with only slight exaggeration, I’m

In Psychological Inquiry, 2007, 18 (No. 4), pp. 258-264.

Department of Psychology

University of California, Berkeley

1st mix of In-person and Online 

Meditation-related challenges

Reading the Academic Report: Progress or Pathology? from Lindahl et al 2020

This post offers a reflection on a recent academic paper and may be of particular interest to those who engage in mindfulness teaching, training and practice.

Making Mindfulness Safe and Effective for People Who’ve Experienced Trauma

The Trauma-Sensitive Mindfulness Podcast:

A monthly podcast hosted by David Treleaven featuring a variety of guests speaking about the intersection of mindfulness, meditation, and trauma.

https://davidtreleaven.com/podcast-2/