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Epilogue: Manjushri’s Burden from Journey of Insight...

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2025/06/06

Epilogue: Manjushri’s Burden from Journey of Insight Meditation by Eric LernerI SET THE CHAIN SAW down on the stump of the tree which I had just felled and sat down on the log to drink from my canteen. It was the very same orange water bag I had purchased to take with me to India two years ago. I looked up through the bare November trees at the sun edging toward the apex of its low autumn arc. Then I looked at the piles of cordwood I’d accumulated along the road during the past months. There

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Ch. 14 - Time Past and Time Present from Journey of...

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2025/05/30

Ch. 14 - Time Past and Time Present from Journey of Insight Meditation by Eric LernerDELHI HOT LIKE A KILN. I wandered through empty streets at midday making final connections. London like a plunge into ice water, only hours later. I stood shivering in the transit lounge, my thin wool shawl wrapped tight around my shoulders, my socks incongruous in Indian sandals, even more incongruous in white pajama clothes, amidst fur and leather coats, heavy sweaters and fat, flushed, liquor-stained faces. I

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Ch. 13 - The Essence is Anicca from Journey of...

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2025/05/23

Ch. 13 - The Essence is Anicca from Journey of Insight Meditation by Eric LernerTHE TWO-BLADED FAN above my head cut ponderously through the thick, hot air. It was late April and the annual three-month heat wave was in full bloom in Madras. My own body temperature had gone amok with some indeterminate fever, and I’d spent the past three days in this hotel room waiting quietly for my illness to pass. It was a comfortable enough place to be sick, with its clean, white walls and stone floors, and

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Ch. 12 - The Great Blind Sea Turtle from Journey of...

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2025/05/16

Ch. 12 - The Great Blind Sea Turtle from Journey of Insight Meditation by Eric LernerON MY RETURN TO the monastery from my brief journey out into the world, I had been warmly greeted by the head monk, Nyayaka Maha Thera, and by my two friends Bhikkhus Sunno and Ratanapala, who were convinced that I had returned for good. It was quite a homecoming. I asked Sunno if he might like to take a walk out to my hut one afternoon and have some tea so we could talk. He was quite pleased by the invitation

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Ch. 11 - The Path of Power from Journey of Insight...

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2025/05/09

Ch. 11 - The Path of Power from Journey of Insight Meditation by Eric LernerTHE LIGHT OF GOD. Ishvara, the Lord. Divine Luminescence. Seen with the mind’s eye only through a mind that can see. I stared with eyelids drawn immobile at an empty black background. The shimmering disk of cool brilliance was not an object but an event, which eyes cannot see. My attention stayed with my breath as it had for days, the tiny touch of my life against thin skin. The awareness on that single point was almost

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Ch. 10 - The Great Elder from Journey of Insight...

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2025/05/02

Ch. 10 - The Great Elder from Journey of Insight Meditation by Eric LernerAFTER TWO WEEKS OF isolation in the forest, I left the monastery for a short time, mostly to find out about the possibility of returning to Burma. It had been rumored that tourist visas to that country were going to be extended longer than seven days. If so, I could return there soon, and possibly stay for as long as a month. The rumors proved false, however, and I was left with a very open end to my trip. There was no

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Ch. 9 - A Taste of Stillness from Journey of Insight...

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2025/04/25

Ch. 9 - A Taste of Stillness from Journey of Insight Meditation by Eric LernerON THE MORNING OF the tenth day I interrupted my return to the hut following my breakfast to catch my breath on a high flat rock that afforded a view of the entire valley beneath the monastery. The dawn haze had burned off, revealing the neighboring valley, whose sharply edged checkerboard fields stood out in contrast to the surrounding jungle. Perhaps I romanticized by calling this place “jungle” when, in fact,

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Ch. 8 - Unmeasured Time from Journey of Insight...

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2025/04/18

Ch. 8 - Unmeasured Time from Journey of Insight Meditation by Eric LernerTHE ENTIRE ISLAND OF Ceylon has only eight million inhabitants, and as I stood idly waiting for a bus or walked through the streets of Colombo, the capital city, I no longer felt the constant psychic assault that I had been aware of in India. The most obvious difference, however, was that Ceylon was a Buddhist country. Even the most casual conversation easily turned to a common appreciation of the Dharma. There are probably

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Pariyatti Presents... Realizing Change: Sébastian...

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2025/04/13

Realizing Change: Sébastian Bernier's StoryThis a Pariyatti Presents... event of the Realizing Change Series: Sébastian Bernier's Story. Sébastian Bernier December 2, 2022 1 hour 4 minutes Watch the video or download the audio. Download Audio (31MB) Video copyright, 2022 Pariyatti View the archive of all Pariyatti Presents... Events. View more books and audio resources available at the online Pariyatti bookstore.

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Ch. 7 - No Way Off This Path from Journey of Insight...

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2025/04/11

Ch. 7 - No Way Off This Path from Journey of Insight Meditation by Eric Lerner SIX OF US ARRIVED at the International Meditation Center in Rangoon late in the afternoon of the day the retreat in memory of U Ba Khin was to begin. A charming, middle-aged Burmese gentleman who produced movies for a living met us at the gate and immediately took us on a tour of the grounds. After all the build-up and expectation that had surrounded our trip, it was difficult to appreciate the fact that we were

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Ch. 6 - Why the Buddha Sat Under a Tree from Journey...

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2025/04/04

Ch. 6 - Why the Buddha Sat Under a Tree from Journey of Insight Meditation by Eric LernerIMMEDIATELY AFTER HOVER’s departure I had begun another retreat, and on New Year’s Day Goenka’s chanting brought to an end forty continuous days of meditation behind walls for me. An hour after the meditation ended, my monastic woolen shawl and white cotton pajama suit were tucked away in my bag, and I marveled at the strange feel of denim against my skin once again. by Eric Lerner 2025 26 minutes 45

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Pariyatti Presents... An interview with Rivers Cuomo

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2025/03/30

An interview with Rivers Cuomo . This a Pariyatti Presents... event interview with Rivers Cuomo, lead singer, songwriter and guitarist for the band, Weezer. He is interviewed by Kory Goldberg, co-author of Along the Path. Rivers Cuomo February 18, 2024 54 minutes Watch the video or download the audio. Download Audio (52MB) Video copyright, 2024 Pariyatti View the video of the interview at Pariyatti. View more books and audio resources available in the Pariyatti bookstore.

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Ch. 5 - Right Effort from Journey of Insight Meditation

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2025/03/28

Ch. 5 - Right Effort from Journey of Insight Meditation by Eric LernerTOWARD THE END OF the first week of the course, Hover introduced a new schedule for vipassana meditation which he had been shown on his recent trip to Burma. It consisted of six hour-long sittings each day in which the resolve was made not to move at all: two in the morning, three in the afternoon, and one at night after his discourse, plus some hours in the early morning and after tea. It didn’t take long for this regimen to

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Ch. 4 - Noble Silence from Journey of Insight Meditation

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2025/03/21

Ch. 4 - Noble Silence from Journey of Insight Meditation by Eric LernerBENARES, THE SPIRITUAL CAPITAL of Hinduism, and the site of our next retreat, had been one of the most exciting places I’d visited in India or anywhere else in my travels around the world four years earlier. It’s a city of death and rebirth. Pilgrims gather there to bathe away their sins in the holy Ganges River waters and then patiently await the end of this life in order to be cremated beside the Mother of Waters. Saddhus

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Ch. 3 - A Peacock is More Than a Bird from Journey of...

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2025/03/14

Ch. 3 - A Peacock is More Than a Bird from Journey of Insight Meditation by Eric Lerner IN MID-NOVEMBER, after nearly three weeks of waiting, I finally took a train to a small city in Gujarat state in the far west of India. It was the nicest time of the year in that part of the country. The weather was warm and dry with an empty blue sky all day, and the area had a different feel to it than any place I had been. It was less intense, almost relaxed, and without the air of desperation that much of

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Ch. 2 - Siva's Smile from Journey of Insight Meditation

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2025/03/07

Ch. 2 - Siva’s Smile from Journey of Insight Meditation by Eric LernerIT TOOK A COUPLE of months to get used to the lack of drama that each hour of the ten-day retreat had contained. Hover had not given me much advice as to what to do next, except to keep sitting. Often I had no idea what I was doing, but I kept doing it at least one hour a day and although P, my wife, didn’t participate, she respected my effort. I hadn’t sat this evening, though, due to the rush of getting dinner before P and I

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Ch. 1 - The Dharma of an Aerospace Engineer from...

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2025/03/01

Ch. 1 - The Dharma of an Aerospace Engineer from Journey of Insight Meditation by Eric LernerAbout a dozen of us sat cross-legged in a darkened living room in a Massachusetts country home, attentive to the speech of a man whom all present including myself would agree was a highly unlikely candidate for a meditation teacher. His name was Robert Hover, and he was an aerospace engineer from Los Angeles. He had the incongruity of a centaur. The bottom part of him looked right, seated comfortably on a

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Introduction from Journey of Insight Meditation

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2025/02/23

Introduction from Journey of Insight Meditation by Eric Lerner AS THE WORLD ADVANCED into the early seventies I felt strangely dislocated. I really couldn’t accept that the sixties had so quickly become an “era” in the past tense. I tried to remind myself that, if only for a brief time, the mind of my generation had been wide open to experiences, perceptions of the universe and modes of life whose power and truth contradicted a lifetime of convention. For a while, through chemicals, a wholly

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Review of Buddhism without Beliefs by Bhikkhu Bodhi

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2025/01/11

Review of Buddhism without Beliefs by Bhikkhu BodhiIt has often been said that Western Buddhism is distinguished from its Asian prototype by three innovative shifts: the replacement of the monastery by the lay community as the principal arena of Buddhist practice; the enhanced position of women; and the emergence of a grass-roots engaged Buddhism aimed at social and political transformation. These three developments, however, have been encompassed by a fourth which is so much taken for granted

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A Household Tradition by Patrick Given-Wilson

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2024/10/03

A Household Tradition by Patrick Given-WilsonThis talk by Patrick Given-Wilson was given for the European Dhamma servers' meeting in Spain, June 2024. The talk is followed by a Q&A session. by Patrick Given-Wilson 2024 62 minutes 2 seconds Listen to Streaming Audio Your browser does not support the audio element. Download Audio (60MB) Audio copyright, 2024 Pariyatti View the video version of this talk at Pariyatti. All works by Patrick Given-Wilson. View more books and audio resources

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