timeless presence

From birth, and throughout every moment of your life, being is a quiet background presence that’s always with you but that can go unnoticed until it’s directly pointed out. Take a few moments now to feel back through your life and notice how the feeling of being has always been with you. To realize that you are Being is freedom.

Wholeness through Just Being

Anxiety is a necessary part of our path. As we move in the direction of waking up, increasing our tolerance of more and more awareness or open mind, we will inevitably experience anxiety. At some point or another, anybody committed to the spiritual path may find it important to commit to the experience of anxiety as an approximation of an open state of mind. - Bruce Tift

Transforming Anxiety

Celebrating life through contemplating death. Knowing that you are dying, not knowing when, what is important in your life? What do you hold back? Where do you want to turn to at the time of death?

New Year Retreat - Contemplating Death

Sometimes it is difficult for us to connect with a genuinely felt sense of warmth and kindness towards ourselves. In this meditation, you learn a method to strengthen this natural quality within you.

Kindness for yourself - guided meditation

Introduction to a series of 8 evenings on Vipassana practice.

Seeing that liberates - Vipassana - Part 1a

Seeing that liberates - Vipassana - Part 1b

A guided meditation into the present moment, connecting with the primordial peace of your own being. Just being here, now, in a place where you have everything you need. 

Resting in timeless presence

Theravada Vipassana is the insight into the three characteristics, anicca dukkha, and anatta. Whatever the meditation object, it is changing, it is not satisfying you, and it is not you. Stephan Pende gives an explanation of how to see dukkha and anatta.

Seeing that liberates - Vipassana - Part 2a

Meditation on Co-dependent arising is one of the main methods to have a deep insight into the nature of reality. Since everything is dependent on everything else, nothing can exist in an independent, separate, autonomous way.

Seeing that liberates - Vipassana - Part 5a

Seeing that liberates - Vipassana - Part 5b

We struggle because our usual way of seeing distorts reality. Vipassana is learning to see yourself and others in a way that liberates. How to do that?

Seeing that liberates - Vipassana - Part 6

Drop your Banana - Spring Retreat - Part 2 - Morning Meditation

Insight into the nature of mind is the liberating seeing within the Mahayana tradition. How can you turn your attention to itself? How can you become aware of being aware?

Seeing that liberates - Vipassana - Part 7a

Seeing that liberates - Vipassana - Part 7b

Explanation of stable awareness, guided meditation, and explanation of walking meditation.

Drop your Banana - Spring Retreat - Part 3

Last session of the 3 months course in Malmö on Vipassana.

Seeing that liberates - Vipassana - Part 8a

Making contact with that which is bigger than you is a safe refuge.

Drop your Banana - Spring Retreat - Part 5

Dwelling deep within our heart, and within the hearts of all beings without exception, is an inexhaustible source of love and wisdom. And the ultimate purpose of all spiritual practices, whether they are called Buddhist or not, is to uncover and make contact with this essentially pure nature. - Lama Yeshe

Radical Acceptance - Part 1b - I love myself

Self-Kindness is necessary if you want to open to others. The biggest obstacles to Bodhicitta is the harsh voice in your head.

timeless presence

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