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A Lifetime Doing Nothing (Story 6 excerpt)

February 04, 2022

Story 6 from 'A Lifetime Doing Nothing' by Ian McCrorie
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My second epiphany took place after university, when I was teaching grade eight. I was on the front line, trying to hold the raging hormones of thirty-six students at bay long enough to stuff some important knowledge into their overly coiffed little heads....

narrated by Ian McCrorie
2022
3 minutes 45 seconds

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A Lifetime Doing Nothing (Story 5 excerpt)

January 28, 2022

Story 5 from 'A Lifetime Doing Nothing' by Ian McCrorie
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My first revelation occurred on a Friday evening just before my first year of university. I had the book list I needed for my courses, and a friend drove me to the uni bookstore. Books in hand,...

narrated by Ian McCrorie
2022
2 minutes 33 seconds

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A Lifetime Doing Nothing (Story 4 excerpt)

January 21, 2022

Story 4 from 'A Lifetime Doing Nothing' by Ian McCrorie
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Because I had seldom, if ever, sat quietly in a room alone, the irony was that I thought my mind was akin to a well-oiled Bianchi racing bike. Of course, I was totally deluded. I had equated intelligence, literacy, strong opinions, and popularity with a beautiful mind—a Bianchi, if you will. In fact,...

narrated by Ian McCrorie
2022
5 minutes 01 seconds

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A Lifetime Doing Nothing (Story 3 excerpt)

January 14, 2022

Story 3 from 'A Lifetime Doing Nothing' by Ian McCrorie
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Self-introspection is not the strongest attribute of Homo sapiens. Our forefathers survived primarily because they were men of action, fleeing or fighting as the situation demanded. And they hunted in groups, perhaps the only time they were quiet. Sound familiar?...

narrated by Ian McCrorie
2022
3 minutes 50 seconds

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A Lifetime Doing Nothing (Story 2 excerpt)

January 07, 2022

Story 2 from 'A Lifetime Doing Nothing' by Ian McCrorie
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Blaise Pascal (1623–1662), a French mathematician and writer, once declared that “All of humanity’s problems stem from man’s inability to sit quietly in a room alone.” This is the most graphic summation of the conundrum of the human condition...

narrated by Ian McCrorie
2022
3 minutes 04 seconds

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A Lifetime Doing Nothing (Story 1 excerpt)

December 31, 2021

Story 1 from 'A Lifetime Doing Nothing' by Ian McCrorie
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I left my small hut in the tribal area of the Western Ghats of Maharashtra early one morning to go for a run through the countryside. As I came over a small rise in the road, I found myself staring at a herd of water buffalo....

narrated by Ian McCrorie
2022
2 minutes 16 seconds

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Cultivating Inner Peace - an interview with Paul R. Fleischman

December 17, 2021

Cultivating Inner Peace an interview with Paul R. Fleischman
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Paul Fleischman, psychiatrist, author and long-time meditator, writes about the psychology, wisdom and poetry of those who have inspired him in his personal quest for harmony and happiness.

The learnable qualities of peaceful living are brought into focus by examining the lives of diverse exemplars such as Mahatma Gandhi, Walt Whitman, Henry David Thoreau, the Buddha, John Muir, Scott and Helen Nearing, and Rabindranath Tagore. His ultimate example is an autobiographical account of his own experience with his practice of Vipassana.

The final chapter of the book is a compelling appeal to all people to walk the path of peace as a way of healing the earth itself. This new paperback edition includes a new introduction and a foreword by Professor William Radice, noted Tagore scholar and poet.

Paul R. Fleischman
2021
2 hours 02 minutes

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Deepening Insight: An Interview with Bhikkhu Anālayo

December 17, 2021

A discussion with Bhikkhu Anālayo about his book "Deepening Insight: Teachings on vedanā in the Early Buddhist Discourses."

Deepening Insight presents a selection of passages from the early Buddhist discourses that provide perspectives on the cultivation of liberating insight into vedanā, sensation, feeling, or feeling tone. For meditators, such passages can be of considerable help as a reference point for deepening insight.

A metaphor that can offer considerable help when facing vedanās describes bubbles arising on the surface of a pond during rain...they arise and soon enough burst and disappear. Contemplation of the changing nature of vedanā provides a firm foundation for the growth of insight into not self. Such insight proceeds through successive layers of the mind's ingrained habit of self-referentiality. Based on relinquishing the explicit view of affirming the existence of a permanent self, increasingly subtler traces of conceit and possessiveness need to be successively overcome until with full awakening all selfing in any form will be removed for good.

Interview and Q&A with Bhikkhu Anālayo
interviewer: Marta Van Patten
2021
90 minutes

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Interview with Manish Chopra, author of "The Equanimous Mind (2nd Edition)"

December 10, 2021

The Equanimous Mind by Manish Chopra
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The Equanimous Mind (2nd Edition) chronicles the author's first ten-day Vipassana meditation camp experience at the end of 2010 and the life-changing impact it has had on his personal and professional life since that time.

This new second edition comes at an important milestone in Manish's journey as ten years have passed since that first ten-day retreat. A new epilogue in this 10th anniversary edition has been expanded and enriched with updates on his progress since the journey began a decade ago.

Stepping forward with an act of daring confession, Manish Chopra tells us in detail what was wrong with his life, and how, by learning Vipassana meditation, he reoriented every waking moment to be in greater harmony with himself, life, and truth.

The Equanimous Mind has a particular heartwarming quality because of the earnestness with which the author seeks to grow into being the best possible person he can be. Many people will benefit from this volume of clear sentences, deep feelings, and important messages.

Out of gratitude for the benefits the author has received from the practice of Vipassana meditation, he will be donating the proceeds from this book to spreading awareness about the technique, so that others can draw value from it as well.

Interview with Manish Chopra
2021
1 hours 16 minutes

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A Lifetime Doing Nothing: Tales, Teachings, and Testimonials

December 03, 2021

A Lifetime Doing Nothing by Ian McCrorie
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"In my experience, all our problems do indeed stem from this hyperactive and delusional thinking we have acquired over time.

There is a way to eradicate the light-speed, blind reactions and the habitual confusion. The way is very simple. It boils down to just two words: do nothing. That s it. Do nothing. Sit quietly in a room alone and do nothing. Watch the monkey mind and do not try to fix it or eliminate it or drown it out or engage it.

This is doing non-doing. Observe the mind, on autopilot as usual, screaming editorial comments from the sidelines like some frenzied play-by-play announcer and do nothing about it. Don't turn the monologue into a dialogue. Do nothing. 'Nothing to see here, folks. Let s keep it moving.'"

interview with Ian McCrorie
2021
1 hours 53 minutes

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