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5 Reasons that Listening and Compassion Foster One Another

TCN / 02/02/2018

When you reach a psychological, social, spiritual impasse or bottleneck, you’re usually short of time and likely want to push forward or give up completely. That’s precisely the moment to take a little time to listen to the sound of silence, to the internal voice or higher power. Setting aside the problems for a little while allows you to hear possible creative solutions.

awareness, buddhist, listening, meditation, spiritual, zen

3 Analogies that Describe Enlightening Progress in Your Practice

TCN / 01/06/2018

It helps to know that you are on track with your practice, Here are 3 similes in Mahayana Buddhist texts that enlightened beings often employ to describe mostly indescribably states of mind.

awareness, buddhism, meditation

The 6 Senses

TCN / 10/22/2017

Human beings have six sense organs in common. So if there is a practice that leads to enlightening insight and even enlightenment through any of these senses, anyone can do that practice and advance spiritually.

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Meditation & the Brain: Everlasting Happiness

TCN / 08/23/2009

Aren't we really voluntarily shutting off our left brain by meditating? There's the joy we can access anywhere and any time. There is more beyond being in a state of oblivion for oneself though.