Work & Leadership
January 10, 2015Refining How You Speak Up
Refining How You Speak Up: a free mindfulness worksheet to download as a PDF and work through at your own pace.
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Parenting & Families
January 10, 2015Mindfulness of Triggering Others
Mindfulness of Triggering Others: a free mindfulness worksheet to download as a PDF and work through at your own pace.
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Work & Leadership
January 10, 2015Gauging External Contributions
Gauging External Contributions: a free mindfulness worksheet to download as a PDF and work through at your own pace.
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Work & Leadership
January 10, 2015Feeling Good About Supporting Others
Feeling Good About Supporting Others: a free mindfulness worksheet to download as a PDF and work through at your own pace.
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Parenting & Families
January 10, 2015Facing Challenges By Others
Facing Challenges By Others: a free mindfulness worksheet to download as a PDF and work through at your own pace.
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Work & Leadership
January 9, 2015Evaluating How Wisely You Spend Your Time
Evaluating How Wisely You Spend Your Time: a free mindfulness worksheet to download as a PDF and work through at your own pace.
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Work & Leadership
January 9, 2015Assessing Contributions To Your Team
It is often said that teamwork makes the dream work. This worksheet helps you look honestly at what you contribute to your team, and where you might contribute more.
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Work & Leadership
January 9, 2015Appreciating Your Accomplishments
Acknowledging our accomplishments is not something that comes easy to most of us. Often, we are taught that to acknowledge what we are good at is contrary to humility.
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Calm
January 7, 2015Finding the Missing Peace
Finding the Missing Peace: A Primer of Buddhist Meditation, by Ajahn Amaro, describes meditation tools and techniques for beginners. The booklet is embedded here with an excerpt from Lesson One, Posture and Focus.
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Stress
December 30, 2014Mindfulness of Moods
Often our moods can change so quickly and automatically that we are unaware of what actually caused them.
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Stress
December 26, 2014Detachment From Over-Thinking
This guided meditation, based on mindful techniques of conscious observation and self acceptance, will train your mind to calmly detach from over thinking. Welcome to this guided meditation which is designed to train your mind for calm detachment from any unwanted patterns of over-thinking.This meditation encourages a calm awareness of the breath, and also a […]
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Integration
December 12, 2014Dissolving our Barriers to Integrity
In this exercise Dissolving Barriers to Integrity, you’ll be instructed to ask yourself a number of questions about integrity. Some may seem open-ended.
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Audio Talks
December 11, 201412 Principles of Forgiveness by Jack Kornfield
12 Principles of Forgiveness by Jack Kornfield explains the principles that are integral to the process of forgiving according to Buddhist philosophy. The acclaimed author and teacher explains the principles that are integral to the process of forgiving, according to Buddhist philosophy. One: Understand what forgiveness is and what it is not. As I mentioned […]
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Sleep
November 26, 2014Fall Asleep in 10 Minutes
A calming guided sleep talk-down by The Honest Guys, with a gentle beat that gets calmer as the recording progresses. It runs about ten and a half minutes.
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Blog
November 12, 2014Mindfulness Exercises for Parents
Here are helpful mindfulness exercises for parents to develop the skills needed for unexpected stressful situations and will help you become better parent. Parenting often provides daily challenging experiences. For example, everyone is buckled in the car ready to go and one child announces they need to go back inside to go potty. After getting […]
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Blog
October 31, 2014Visual and Tactile Meditation Techniques for Stress
Everybody deals with stress on a daily basis. Here are some free meditation techniques you can use to help ease stress. Stress is a part of our everyday lives; it’s impossible to imagine a life without it. Even while we’re doing the things that we enjoy, we’re also feeling stress. For example, […]
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Blog
October 27, 2014Meditation Techniques for Anxiety: Posture, Breath and Chakras
Most people turn to meditation when they have anxiety or stress-related issues. However, meditation is more than just a cure for these ailments; it can also be a way of life. In other words, you can use meditation to relieve symptoms of anxiety, fear and anger but you can also use it to make your […]
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Relaxation
October 26, 2014Yoga Nidra – Meditation & Guided Relaxation
A guide for practicing Yoga Nidra, an ancient form of guided meditation to support deep relaxation and touch a place of stillness, peace and insight within. Yoga Nidra “Unwind” is a complete 16 min. training script that can help you relax deeply and touch a place of deep stillness, peace and insight within. Yoga Nidra […]
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Blog
October 3, 2014How To Enhance Mindful Relationships
Mindfulness with relationships and family take work, that’s why we offer free mindfulness techniques and resources to enhance mindful relationships.
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Buddhist
August 3, 2014Direct Realization
Volume 3 Direct Realization. This volume contains material gathered from talks given by Ajahn Sumedho in the late 1980s and 1990s.
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Buddhist
July 14, 2014Meditations 5
Meditations 5: Dhamma Talks is a collection of talks by Thanissaro Bhikkhu. The first, “Wisdom for Dummies,” presents the Buddha’s teachings in simple terms.
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Stress
June 17, 2014Operating on Autopilot
Operating on autopilot can be counterproductive. This mindfulness exercise helps you to learn and look for opportunities instead of operating on autopilot.
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Buddhist
May 30, 2014Refuge: An Introduction to the Buddha, Dhamma, & Sangha
The 3 basic principles of Buddhism are the Buddha, the Dhamma, and the Sangha. You’ll be given a full introduction into the act of “refuge” itself.
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Buddhist
May 30, 2014Skill in Questions: How the Buddha Taught
The central role of questioning in the Buddha’s teaching may be connected to the fact that his teaching starts not with a first principle but with a self-evident problem: how to put an end to suffering.
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Buddhist
May 29, 2014The Mind Like Fire Unbound (ebook)
The Mind Like Fire Unbound is an essay by Thanissaro Bhikkhu on the early Buddhist image of the released mind as a fire that has gone out.
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Buddhist
May 29, 2014The Wings to Awakening
The Wings to Awakening: An Anthology from the Pali Canon, translated and explained by Thanissaro Bhikkhu, is organized around the set of teachings the Buddha said formed the heart of his message.
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Buddhist
May 28, 2014The Paradox of Becoming
The Paradox of Becoming is a study by Thanissaro Bhikkhu of how the Buddha analyzed becoming and how it relates to suffering and its ending.
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Buddhist
May 28, 2014The Shape of Suffering: A Study of Dependent Co-arising
The Shape of Suffering: A Study of Dependent Co-arising is a book by Thanissaro Bhikkhu on how dukkha (suffering and stress) arises, according to the Buddha, and how it can end.
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Buddhist
May 27, 2014Self & Not-Self: The Buddhist Teaching on YOU
A free ebook by Thanissaro Bhikkhu on the Buddha’s teaching of not-self (anatta) and the questions he answered and set aside.
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Buddhist
May 27, 2014The Truth of Rebirth: And Why It Matters for Buddhist Practice
A free ebook by Thanissaro Bhikkhu on the Buddha’s teachings about rebirth and how they bear on the choices we make.
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Buddhist
May 26, 2014Right Mindfulness: Memory & Ardency on the Buddhist Path
A free ebook by Thanissaro Bhikkhu arguing that right mindfulness (sammā-sati) is a faculty of active memory and ardency, not bare attention.
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Calm
May 26, 2014With Each & Every Breath: A Guide to Meditation
A free ebook by Thanissaro Bhikkhu on breath meditation, drawing on the Buddha’s instructions in the Pali Canon and on the method of Ajaan Lee Dhammadharo.
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Buddhist
May 25, 2014A Burden Off the Mind: A Study Guide on the Five Aggregates
One of the new concepts most central to the Buddha’s teaching was that of the khandhas, usually translated into English as “aggregates.”
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Buddhist
May 25, 2014A Meditator’s Tools: A Guide on the 10 Recollections
The Ten Recollections (A Study Guide) are a set of meditation themes that highlight the positive role that memory and thought play in training the mind.
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Beginners
May 24, 2014Study Guide on the First Stage of Awakening
A free study guide by Thanissaro Bhikkhu on stream entry, the first of the four levels of awakening in the Pali Canon: the practices that lead to it and the experience and results of it.
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eBooks
May 23, 2014Mindful of the Body: A Guide
A free study guide prepared by Thanissaro Bhikkhu on mindfulness immersed in the body (MN 119) and the role of the body in meditation, according to the Pali Canon.
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Buddhist
May 23, 2014Recognizing the Dhamma: A Guide
Any interpretation of the Dhamma or Vinaya must be judged. Perhaps the most important point that these principles make is that it has to be judged by the results that come when putting it into practice.
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Buddhist
May 22, 2014The Buddha’s Strategies for Happiness
Ṭhānissaro Bhikkhu’s study guide introduces the Buddha’s teachings on using discernment in the search for lasting happiness.
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Buddhist
May 21, 2014Ten Perfections: A Study Guide
For people in the modern world facing the issue of how to practice Dhamma in daily life, the 10 perfections provide a useful framework for how to do it.
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eBooks
May 21, 2014The Sublime Attitudes: A Study on Love
Ṭhānissaro Bhikkhu’s study guide on the four sublime attitudes (brahmavihāras): goodwill, compassion, empathetic joy, and equanimity, and how they fit within the Buddha’s path.
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Buddhist
May 20, 2014Noble Strategy
Essays by Thanissaro Bhikkhu on basic elements of the Buddhist path: the attitudes, concepts, and practices he presents as leading to total freedom for the mind.
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Buddhist
May 20, 2014The Karma of Questions
Essays by Thanissaro Bhikkhu on the Buddhist path, opening from the idea that every question, even the most casual, carries an intention.
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Buddhist
May 19, 2014Head and Heart Together
Head & Heart Together. “How can I ever repay you for your teaching?” Good meditation teachers often hear this question from their students, the best answer I know for it is one that my teacher, Ajaan Fuang, gave every time.
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Buddhist
May 18, 2014Beyond All Directions
Beyond All Directions – Essays on the Buddhist Path by Thanissaro Bhikkhu deals with the idea of “protection in all directions” offered by teachers towards their students.
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Buddhist
May 18, 2014Dhamma Talks, vol. I
Dharma talks vol 1. Coming out to a place like this is very important for the mind because the mind needs time to get away from its day-to-day issues.
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Buddhist
May 17, 2014Dhamma Talks, vol. II
Dhamma Talks, vol. II is a free ebook of Dhamma talks by Thanissaro Bhikkhu on meditation practice, opening with “Beginner’s Mind” on bringing a fresh attitude to the breath. Read it here or download the PDF.
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Buddhist
May 16, 2014Meditations 1
Meditations 1 is a free ebook of forty Dhamma talks by Thanissaro Bhikkhu, opening with “Generosity First” and including “The Steps of Breath Meditation” and “An Introduction to Pain.” Read it here or download the PDF.
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Buddhist
May 16, 2014Meditations 2
Meditations 2 is a free ebook of thirty-nine Dhamma talks by Thanissaro Bhikkhu, opening with “Close to the Heart” and including “The Sublime Attitudes” and “Contemplation of the Body.” Read it here or download the PDF.
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Buddhist
May 15, 2014Meditations 3
Meditations 3 is a free ebook of forty-six Dhamma talks by Thanissaro Bhikkhu, opening with “A Decent Education” and including “Analyzing the Breath” and “Gladdening the Mind.” Read it here or download the PDF.
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Buddhist
May 15, 2014Meditations 4
Meditations 4 is a free ebook of forty-two Dhamma talks by Thanissaro Bhikkhu, opening with “The Buddha’s Shoulds” and including “Befriending the Breath” and “Walking Meditation: Stillness in Motion.” Read it here or download the PDF.
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Buddhist
May 14, 2014Meditations 6
Meditations 6 is a free ebook of forty-four Dhamma talks by Thanissaro Bhikkhu, opening with “A Connoisseur of Happiness” and including “Rapture” and “Forgiveness.” Read it here or download the PDF.
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eBooks
May 13, 2014Mindfulness: The Path to the Deathless
Mindfulness is the path to the deathless, heedlessness is the path to death. The mindful do not die, but the heedless are as if dead already – Dhammapada 21
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Buddhist
May 13, 2014A Tree in a Forest
This free ebook A Tree in a Forest is a collection of Ajahn Chah’s similes. Talking about Dhamma via similes is a creative way to understand the teachings.
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Buddhist
May 12, 2014The Wings to Awakening: An Anthology from the Pali Canon
An anthology of passages from the Pali Canon, translated and explained by Thanissaro Bhikkhu and arranged around the seven sets of teachings known as the wings to awakening.
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Buddhist
May 10, 2014Kamma and the End of Kamma
Intention, I tell you, is kamma. Intending, one does kamma by way of body, speech and mind. And what is the cause by which kamma comes into play? Contact, bhikkhus.
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Buddhist
May 8, 2014Now is the Knowing
The Buddha said the greatest gift is the gift of Dhamma. This small book represents the wish of some of those fortunate enough to have received Dhamma teachings from Ajahn Sumedho to share them with others.
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Buddhist
May 3, 2014In Simple Terms
Ajahn Chah was a master at using the apt & unusual simile to explain points of Dhamma. Sometimes he would make an abstract point clear with a simple image.
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Confidence
April 1, 2014Feel Your Truth and Follow It
Qoya is based on the idea through movement, we remember. We remember our essence is wise, wild and free. Using movement as metaphor and infusing movement with meaning, the words wise, wild, and free are not only archetypical energies that we all possess, but these words also draw reference to the movement forms we practice. […]
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eBooks
February 22, 2014Merit: The Buddha’s Strategies for Happiness
A free study guide prepared by Thanissaro Bhikkhu. It presents the pursuit of merit (giving, virtue and meditation) as the way to develop a wise sense of self.
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Work & Leadership
January 11, 2014Gathering Focus
Gathering Focus: a free mindfulness worksheet to download as a PDF and work through at your own pace.
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Anxiety
January 10, 2014Getting to Know the “I’s” You Identify With
Getting to Know the “I’s” You Identify With: a free mindfulness worksheet to download as a PDF and work through at your own pace.
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Confidence
October 1, 2013The Courage to Stay True
Qoya is based on the idea through movement, we remember. We remember our essence is wise, wild and free. Using movement as metaphor and infusing movement with meaning, the words wise, wild, and free are not only archetypical energies that we all possess, but these words also draw reference to the movement forms we practice. […]
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Depression
June 1, 2013Dancing with the Existential Ache
Don’t let your fears take over, but rather dance with their different layers to make your existential ache go away. With Qoya, you learn how to savor life. Qoya is based on the idea through movement, we remember. We remember our essence is wise, wild and free. Using movement as metaphor and infusing movement with […]
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Anxiety
December 31, 2012Get Back in Your Body
Qoya is based on the idea through movement, we remember. We remember our essence is wise, wild and free. Using movement as metaphor and infusing movement with meaning, the words wise, wild, and free are not only archetypical energies that we all possess, but these words also draw reference to the movement forms we practice. […]
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Depression
November 30, 2012Believe: 15 Minute Qoya Movement Ritual
Qoya is based on the idea through movement, we remember. We remember our essence is wise, wild and free. Using movement as metaphor and infusing movement with meaning, the words wise, wild, and free are not only archetypical energies that we all possess, but these words also draw reference to the movement forms we practice. […]
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Depression
October 31, 2012Wisdom to Dance
Qoya is based on the idea through movement, we remember. We remember our essence is wise, wild and free. Using movement as metaphor and infusing movement with meaning, the words wise, wild, and free are not only archetypical energies that we all possess, but these words also draw reference to the movement forms we practice. […]
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Depression
August 29, 2012Be the Light
Be the light. Free Qoya movement rituals, with notes on the practice from Rochelle Schieck, author of QOYA: A Compass for Navigating an Embodied Life that is Wise, Wild and Free.
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Buddhist
May 14, 2012Purity of Heart
The opening essays of Thanissaro Bhikkhu’s Purity of Heart: Essays on the Buddhist Path, on what he was taught purity of heart means and why faith in awakening is a matter of testing the teachings. The free PDF is embedded below.
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