Christopher

Your partner walks out on you and into the arms of someone else. What are you going to do? Live in the past or move on?

Daily Life, Dharma Reflections / Christopher / December 23, 2013

Your partner walks out on you and into the arms of someone else.

What are you going to do?

Live in the past or move on?

A beloved friend has been married for around 15 years. That’s about double the length of time of an average marriage in the UK.

Her husband met another woman (no, not a younger woman) and after months of secret contact and secret Skypes he left his loving wife for the new woman in his life. …

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A view on Adyashanti’s Teachings

Dharma Reflections / Christopher / December 15, 2013

Dharma practitioners contact me

about teachers and teachings.

Here is a view on the teachings

of Adyashanti of San Francisco.

Dharma practitioners ask or email me regularly my views on certain teachings and teachers, modern and ancient. I might receive a quote to give a general comment or am asked whether I would consider certain teachings as enlightened.

I have some experience in these matters of the spiritual life and am happy to share a view. I appreciate such discussions or emails as they encourage to me read about these teachings or watch on YouTube, a recorded talk, inquiry or satsang of the respective teacher. …

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There are religious Buddhists who claim there is rebirth. There are secular Buddhists who claim there is no rebirth. Are they both extremists?

Dharma Reflections / Christopher / December 7, 2013

There are religious Buddhists who claim there is rebirth.

There are secular Buddhists who claim there is no rebirth.

Are they both extremists?

You probably think that the Buddha believed in past lives and rebirth. If you read in the English translations of the 10,000 discourses of the Buddha, you will see a number of references to “past lives” and “rebirth.” …

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Has mindfulness been surgically cut off from insight and awakening?

Mindfulness / Christopher / November 29, 2013

I continue to receive regular emails of concern from seniors in the Dharma about the application of Mindfulness in the corporate world. Here are extracts from two emails.

Extract from an email:

I am very concerned about how silent and complicit the Buddhist, and particularly the Insight Meditation community, is on what is being destroyed right in front of our noses: democracy, the public sphere and the environment while the corporate mindfulness movement boasts about all the ‘good’ they are doing. …

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