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the urgency of finding one’s aim in life

May 20, 2020June 30, 2020Hermitage meditation

What are you doing with the minutes and hours of this life? What are you making of yourself as the days fly away, as the months pass by?

why do we want to let go of our emotions?

August 29, 2019September 10, 2019Hermitage meditation

To practice the quality of equanimity, it is important to learn how to stop being a slave of one’s emotions. In the meditation of this school, we aim to be able to observe how any emotion is born and drop it right at the place where it is born.

where is self? the meaning of ‘anata’ or non-self

August 1, 2019January 17, 2021Hermitage meditation

We are so worried, so constantly anxious, running as fast as we can in circles round our little Self. It’s as if we already know inside from the beginning that it is just an image, fake, put-together.

“are you lonely too?” let us talk of loneliness

July 24, 2019January 17, 2021Hermitage meditation

I have this problem that keeps coming back: I am desperately lonely.   I need to be loved, and I’m not. I feel that in the deepest way possible, nobody understands me: I have nobody I can really, fully trust. I’m […]Continue reading

the source of right and wrong – the correct practice of sila

May 3, 2019January 17, 2021Hermitage meditation

Not to do any evil, to cultivate good, to purify one’s mind: This is the teaching of the Buddha. It sounds so simple: not to do any wrong, and to grow the good in oneself. That’s it. And in one […]Continue reading

three ways to be more honest with yourself

March 25, 2019January 17, 2021Hermitage meditation

Honesty is one of the most basic and essential qualities that we look for in others. A liar and hypocrite is someone we can never trust – and if we cannot trust someone, what kind of relationship can we have […]Continue reading

how to be a mechanic of the mind

January 20, 2019April 28, 2019Hermitage meditation

Today happened this. We were lifting a big beam into the ceiling with the whole team. They are so heavy that seven people need to lift at the same time. I was responsible for holding the security rope that made […]Continue reading

the trouble with going to live in a cave

December 29, 2018January 17, 2021Hermitage meditation

There is a story about a man who has a wife, whom he dearly loves, and yet every time he sees a beautiful woman, he can’t help but feel sexual desire for her. Because of this, he is ridden with […]Continue reading

“We are as we are…”

October 20, 2018January 17, 2021Hermitage meditation

One cold evening this week, a group of us stayed up until midnight repairing a lot of headlamps, which were all apparently dead after only two years. They had been on the point of throwing them away and buying new […]Continue reading

the ear of an elephant

October 1, 2018January 20, 2020Hermitage meditation

When you watch Ajan listening to someone, it’s quite a sight to behold. He sits leaning forward in his chair, his eyes opened so wide they’re almost bulging, tilting his head towards the speaker – absolutely all of his attention […]Continue reading

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