Tag: Meditation

• What Is Vipassana?

  What is Vipassana, and how does it compare with the Yogas? This piece situates Vipassana within Buddhism as an insight discipline—training observation and equanimity—then contrasts it with Raja (concentration), Bhakti (devotion), Karma (action), and Jnana (inquiry). It outlines method, aims, and practical benefits, notes where Hatha/Tantra support practice, and offers beginner pointers without giving away…

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  September 25, 2025

  Christchurch, Counseling, Counseling and Psychotherapy, Counseling in Christchurch, Creativity, Expressions, Far North, Fresno, india, Meditation, New Zealand, North Island, Northland, philosophy, Psychology, Psychotherapy, Religion, Religious, Therapy, Uncategorized, Whangaroa

  Buddhism, culture, Health, india, Meditation, mental health, mindfulness, New Zealand, religion, spirituality, United States, vipassana, yoga

• My struggles with Father Time

  I haven’t written. There is no excuse really, except that I am Time constrained. Not writing, for me, is like not brushing my teeth, or not showering. Writing cleanses, and when I don’t write, I feel uncleansed, messy, disorganized. Thank god for my journal, else I’d be even more disoriented than I currently feel. Over…

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  February 5, 2012

  Expressions, Fresno, Poetry, Psychology, Psychotherapy

  Alternative, depth psychology, Lazlow, Lazlow Jones, Meditation, philosophy, Physics, Quantum mechanics, vipassana

• Further Thoughts on Hope…

  I had planned on writing a more detailed expose on Hope after my return, but demands on my time are many, and so for now my psyche can only bring forth this brief piece. I am confident that the rest will show up in some shape or form in my subsequent writings, for the part of…

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  January 7, 2011

  Counseling, Counseling and Psychotherapy, Creativity, Expressions, Fresno, Poetry, Psychology, Psychotherapy, Therapy

  Compassion, death, depth psychology, Human, Meditation, philosophy, Psychic, psychology, Sadness, vipassana

• The Observer and Observed Effect

  I don’t have much to write this week, except about a personal experience and resulting insight. So this will ramble, but bear with me, please. I noticed during my meditation that thoughts arose in my mind only as a consequence of the differentiation between the Observer and the Observed. As long as I am able to separate the…

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  October 19, 2010

  Counseling, Counseling and Psychotherapy, Couples Counseling, Creativity, Expressions, Fresno, Marriage Counseling, Psychology, Psychotherapy, Therapy

  Human, Kundalini, Meditation, observer-observed, Personal experience, philosophy, Reality, Shiva, Thought, Truth