The Teaching Buddha

06/09/2025

Who are we? There is some great spirit that brought you into this human life and that carries you through it. A wise understanding is to go inside and touch that place of your own true nature and awaken it, remember it through you.
Letting go means in fact (from the Sanskrit):
Let it Be.

From: https://youtu.be/a-J8CmI0R1Q?feature=shared

Wish you all a good weekend 🌻

Intersecting the Buddha’s ‘Wise Understanding’ with Alan Watt’s ‘Wisdom of Insecurity,’ Jack illuminates the path of discovering lasting happiness.For an eve...

04/09/2025

After listening for more than 12 years to my much beloved teacher Tara Brach, I finally attended a live session, yesterday evening at 6 pm. It was very special to be part of the Satsang (with so many people from all around the world) and to share "the living room" of Tara, to which I have been looking at on different screens, all these years.... The talk and short meditations or reflections were about Inner Trust. And why this has so much to do with the heart qualities we are born with: the innate goodness and wisdom within us.

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03/09/2025

A Conversation with Thupten Jinpa Join us on Wednesday, September 10 as the Mind & Life Institute lifts up the yearlong celebration of His Holiness the Dalai Lama’s 90th birthday and his extraordinary scientific legacy through the release of a special tribute.  As visionary co-founder of Mind & L...

03/09/2025

“This, my dear, is the greatest challenge of being alive: to witness injustice in the world and not allow it to consume our light.”

~ Thich Nhat Hanh ~

Picture: Voorburg, 01 September ‘25

02/09/2025

Burnout isn’t just about overwork… it’s about disconnection.
From your body.
From your truth.
From the version of you that’s been quietly waiting to feel safe enough to be seen.
You don’t need another productivity hack.
You need rest.
You need repair.
You need to come home to yourself.
Your body is ready.
Your truth is safe.
Your healing begins here.

30/08/2025

Meditation, Emotional Healing, and Spiritual Awakening from Tara Brach, PhD - Psychologist, Author, and Meditation Teacher

28/08/2025

Not A One, by Mark Nepo

A funny thing happened on my way
to being awake. I outgrew all my masks.
Not a one fit. Not the one I called my
past. Not the one I called my dream.
Not the one I wore when sad. Or the
one I wore when trying to be happy.

I saved them all like favourite shirts
I thought would fit when I became
myself again. But that was a mask, too.

Then, just the other day, I was more
present than lost, and had to put down
the mask I called my story.

And today, a gust of light filled my face.
I felt it on my skin and in my soul.
Now, anything is possible.

Inspired by the meditation with a poem, this morning at the online sangha of 30NOW with Erik van den Brink, who translated this poem into Dutch.
Poem copied from and commented by
https://www.thelivingwater.com.au/blog/outgrowing-the-masks-that-hide-the-true-self

Picture: Musée des Beaux Arts, Lyon, August 2025. Description in the comments.

27/08/2025

"This is your own time. This spot where you sit is your own spot. It is on this very spot and in this very moment that you can become enlightened. You don't have to sit beneath a special tree in a distant land. Practice like this for a few months, and you will begin to know a profound and renewing delight."
-Thich Nhat Hanh, 'The Miracle of Mindfulness'

23/08/2025

The Midway as a Heart Practice

The protection of the heart
to not being shattered
by the thousand sorrows
and the thousands joys.
To be in the middle of all
the sounds, sights, smells,
feelings and thoughts.

It is called the practice of Equanimity,
maybe the most difficult but also
most liberating Brahmavihara,
the seed in the heart,
the quality of the heart
and the refuge amidst all.

Picture: La Chartreuse, France, August ‘25.

22/08/2025

Live in joy, in love,
even among those who hate.

Live in joy, in health,
even among the afflicted.

Live in joy, in peace,
even among the troubled.

Look within, be still.
Free from fear and attachment,
know the sweet joy of the way.

~ Gautama Buddha ~

21/08/2025

19/08/2025

Life is a garden,
not a road

we enter and exit
through the same gate

wandering,
where we go matters less
than what we notice

Bokonon — Life Is…

Pic: Abbey of Orval, herb garden.