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Interview with Gil Fronsdal & Nikki Mirghafori: Into the Abyss

By Editors of Inquiring Mind — 2015

Nikki Mirghafori discusses her introduction to Buddhism and some of the insights and experiences she has had on her path.

Read on www.inquiringmind.com

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Know Your Enemy

We call people who harm us enemies, but is that who they really are? When we see the person behind the label, say Buddhist teachers Sharon Salzberg and Robert Thurman, everyone benefits.

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Sharon Salzberg, Robert Thurman
2021
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Three Means to Peace: Mindfulness, Compassion, and Wisdom

In this teaching from 2004, Joseph Goldstein explains how three principles of meditation can be applied to the world’s conflicts.

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Joseph Goldstein
2018
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Here, Now, Aware: The Power of Mindfulness

Mindfulness is the key to the present moment. Without it we cannot see the world clearly, and we simply stay lost in the wanderings of our minds.

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Joseph Goldstein
2007
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The Four Foundations of Mindfulness

The simple, although not always easy, practices of vipassana are all rooted in one important discourse of the Buddha: the Satipatthana Sutta. Satipatthana is often translated as “foundation of mindfulness,” but another, and perhaps more helpful, translation is “way of establishing mindfulness.

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Joseph Goldstein
2020
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How to Live Our Most Meaningful Lives with Compassion and Self-Love

In 1989, at one of the first international Buddhist teacher meetings, Western teachers brought up the enormous problem of unworthiness and self-criticism, shame and self-hatred that frequently they arise in Western students’ practice.

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Jack Kornfield
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No Excuses

There are no obstacles, just opportunities. Take them now.

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Lucy Powell
2009
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How Mindfulness Can Help Engineers Solve Problems

New research shows that by promoting divergent thinking, mindfulness can help engineers strengthen their ability to generate new ideas, leading to new ways of thinking and better solutions.

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Beth Rieken, Shauna Shapiro, Shannon Gilmartin, Sheri D. Sheppard
2019
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Siddhartha Gautama: How the Father of Buddhism Walked from Suffering to Enlightenment

Siddhartha Gautama, also known as the Buddha or “Enlightened One,” is probably one of the most influential individuals to come out of India through the incidental founding of Buddhism.

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Caleb Strom
2019
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Poet Mark Nepo Shares His Biggest Spiritual Lessons from Battling Cancer

Nepo...shares the most humbling thing he’s learned. “We’re asked to learn how to keep asking for what we need only to practice accepting what we’re given,” he says.

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Lynn Okura
2013
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The Mindful Revolution

Mindfulness says we can do better. At one level, the techniques associated with the philosophy are intended to help practitioners quiet a busy mind, becoming more aware of the present moment and less caught up in what happened earlier or what’s to come.

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Kate Pickert
2014
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