nigelwellings
How do you make sense of this?
It seems I'm on a Tibetan Buddhist roll at the moment. I'm researching for my new book which is on the Nyingma Icons - a collection of...
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nigelwellings
- Jul 16, 2022
- 2 min
The Garab Dorje Image
In my last post I wrote about the power of Garab Dorje as a mythical being but I also have a personal story with the image of Garab Dorje...
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nigelwellings
- Jul 16, 2022
- 3 min
Is a myth true?
I have been listening to Malcolm Smith, a brilliant Tibetan Buddhist scholar. He was talking about the lives of Garab Dorje, the first...
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nigelwellings
- Jun 2, 2022
- 3 min
Mindful Spring Watch
The delightful BBC program Spring Watch now treats us to ninety-seconds of ‘mindfulness’ during which we watch footage of landscape and...
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nigelwellings
- Jan 26, 2022
- 2 min
What's in a Cow's Udder?
Is it really possible to understand Buddhism the way a Tibetan does? Talking with a new friend about translating from the Tibetan I am...
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nigelwellings
- Sep 30, 2021
- 10 min
Evolution of Mindfulness 6.
Zen This is our last session. We will have a peek at Zen and its origins within Chinese Buddhism. I have found a strange paradox in Zen,...
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nigelwellings
- Sep 30, 2021
- 6 min
Evolution of Mindfulness 5.
Dzogchen, the Great Perfection As we saw last time, Dzogchen, the Great Perfection, is the pinnacle of the Nyingma nine vehicle system...
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nigelwellings
- Sep 27, 2021
- 11 min
Evolution of Mindfulness 4.
Sex and Violence – Tantra 2. Now for something quite different. From its first tentative emergence sometime during the second century...
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nigelwellings
- Sep 27, 2021
- 12 min
Evolution of Mindfulness 3
Mahāyāna & Tantric Buddhism 1. This week we are going to look at an exciting development in Buddhism – the emergence of the ‘Mahāyāna’ –...
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nigelwellings
- Sep 27, 2021
- 12 min
Evolution of Mindfulness 2.
Theravāda Buddhism and the way of purification Nothing remains the same and this is also true of Buddhism. After the Buddha died his...
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nigelwellings
- Sep 27, 2021
- 15 min
Evolution of Mindfulness 1.
The Way of the Śramaṇa – Early mindfulness I love the word Śramaṇa, it means ‘ascetic’ but a more fun way to translate it is ‘spiritual...
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nigelwellings
- Sep 26, 2021
- 6 min
Satipaṭṭhāna Sutta 10.
Realisation So at last we come to the end of Sutta which is a prediction of how long, if we practice, it will take to become awakened...
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nigelwellings
- Sep 26, 2021
- 12 min
Satipaṭṭhāna Sutta 9.
Investigation of Dhammas The Four Noble Truths So finally we come to the last Dhamma section – the four noble truths. This may seem a...
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nigelwellings
- Sep 26, 2021
- 11 min
Satipaṭṭhāna Sutta 8.
Mindfulness of Dhammas The Awakening Factors It seems that so much of the Satipaṭṭhāna Sutta has been about being mindful of our crazy...
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nigelwellings
- Sep 26, 2021
- 15 min
Satipaṭṭhāna Sutta 7.
Mindfulness of Dhammas The Sense Spheres If the last satipaṭṭhāna concerned how we add an unnecessary ‘self’ to the experience of who we...
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nigelwellings
- Sep 26, 2021
- 13 min
Satipaṭṭhāna Sutta 6.
Mindfulness of Dhammas: The Aggregates On a personal note finally understanding what the Buddha was getting at with his concept of the...
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nigelwellings
- Sep 25, 2021
- 23 min
Satipaṭṭhāna Sutta 5.
Mindfulness of Dhammas This is the fourth and final Satipaṭṭhāna consisting five sections on the hindrances, aggregates, sense spheres,...
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nigelwellings
- Sep 25, 2021
- 6 min
Satipaṭṭhāna Sutta 4.
Mindfulness of mind – Citta The third pasture of mindfulness is contemplation of the mind – for which the Pãli word is citta. In this...
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nigelwellings
- Sep 25, 2021
- 17 min
Satipaṭṭhāna Sutta 3.
Feeling – vedanã This is our second pasture of mindfulness but unlike mindfulness of the body this is much simpler having effectively...
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nigelwellings
- Sep 24, 2021
- 13 min
Satipaṭṭhāna Sutta 2.
Mindfulness of the Body This second session looks at the first Satipaṭṭhāna – contemplating the body. The Sutta first gives instruction...
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