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English: Joseph Goldstein. Việt ngữ: Nguyễn Duy Nhiên. Compile: Lotus group.   Twelfth Evening – Ba Trụ Pháp: Ba La Mật – Three Pillars of Dharma: Parami       Wheel of samsara (greed, hatred and delusion). Every mind-moment    that is free of greed, hatred and delusion has a certain purifying force in the   …

English: Joseph Goldstein. Việt ngữ: Nguyễn Duy Nhiên. Compile: Lotus group.   Eleventh Morning – Trò Chơi Định Tâm – Concentration Game              For every breath that you exhale, count one.            The next breath, two; up to ten. Not missing a breath.   Today we’re going to play a game. It’s called the…

English: Joseph Goldstein. Việt ngữ: Nguyễn Duy Nhiên. – Nhà xuất bản: Sinh Thức Compile: Lotus group. Tenth Evening – Dũng Sĩ – Warrior    Carlos Castaneda (1925 – 1998) was an American author.    Starting with The Teachings of Don Juan in 1968.   In the books by Carlos Castaneda, Don Juan speaks of…

English: Joseph Goldstein. Việt ngữ: Nguyễn Duy Nhiên. Compile: Lotus group. Tenth Morning – Thực Tập: Quán Tâm Thức – Instruction: Consciousness      One of the foundations of mindfulness is consciousness, the knowing    faculty. One way to develop mindfulness of knowing is to treat consciousness    itself as the object of meditation. In…

English: Joseph Goldstein. Việt ngữ: Nguyễn Duy Nhiên. Compile: Lotus group. Ninth Evening – Ngũ Trần Cái – Hindrances          Hindrance is a thing that provides resistance,        delay, or obstruction to something or someone.   Imagine yourselves in the middle of a battlefield, single-handedly facing a thousand enemies. Though surrounded on all sides,…

English: Joseph Goldstein. Việt ngữ: Nguyễn Duy Nhiên. Compile: Lotus group.   Ninth Morning – Ăn Trong Chánh Niệm – Instruction: Eating There are many different processes of mind and body which go on while we eat. It is important to become mindful of the sequence of the processes; otherwise, there is a great likelihood…

English: Joseph Goldstein. Việt ngữ: Nguyễn Duy Nhiên. Compile: Lotus group.   Eight Morning – Bài Học Tác Ý – Instruction: Intentions       There is wide support for three dimensions or domain:     1) cognition (knowing, understanding, thinking);     2) affect (feelings, emotions, attitudes, predispositions); and     3) conation (volition, will, intentions to act,…

English: Joseph Goldstein. Việt ngữ: Nguyễn Duy Nhiên. Compile: Lotus group.   Seventh Afternoon – Những Mẫu Chuyện – Stories      Being with the flow of phenomena on a microscopic level    is the kind of mindfulness that develops with practice.   The way to develop a strong momentum of awareness is to increase…

English: Joseph Goldstein. Việt ngữ: Nguyễn Duy Nhiên. Compile: Lotus group. Sixth Morning – Những Đối Tượng Của Cảm Giác – Instruction: Sense Objects When visual images arise in the practice, simply make a note of “seeing, seeing,” without getting involved in judging or evaluating the content. Khi bạn ngồi thiền, nếu có những hình…

Ba Mươi Ngày Thiền Quán – Kim Chỉ Nam Thiền Vipassana English: Joseph Goldstein. Việt ngữ: Nguyễn Duy Nhiên. Compile: Lotus group.   Fifth evening – Khái niệm Và Thực Tại – Concepts and Reality – Song ngữ   There is a famous parable in the Republic of Plato about a cave. In the cave…