Pariyatti

Two and a half thousand years ago, the Buddha summed up his discovery as “mind matters most.” Buddha, meaning “the awakened one,” is an honorific for Siddhartha Gautama,...

narrated by Ian McCrorie · 2022 · 4 minutes 44 seconds

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So that’s it. It is really that simple. Sit alone in a room quietly. Keeping the spine as straight as possible will help to keep lethargy at bay. At first it is normal to feel somewhat self-conscious,...

narrated by Ian McCrorie · 2022 · 5 minutes 12 seconds

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If it is not already clear, it cannot be emphasized often enough that non-doing is not lethargy. Nor is it apathy, sloth, or laziness. It is not complacency or inactivity. It is not relaxation or spacing out. It is, however,...

narrated by Ian McCrorie · 2022 · 3 minutes 26 seconds

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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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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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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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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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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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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 .

Paul R. Fleischman · 2021 · 2 hours 02 minutes

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