Healthy Mindfulness

Nowadays it is perhaps more important than ever, that we learn to better look after ourselves and gain greater control over the workings of our body. Thus increasing our potential for warding off disease and for developing greater resilience. For accomplishing that more effectively, I want to offer this small pictorial description of the basics…

Meditation on The Four Elements

Should a person desire to practice Four Elements meditation as a subject for establishing mindfulness, he should frequently recite to himself the names of the primary elements and further on, extend the recitation to include the main characteristics of the elements. Thus he might first recite earth, water, fire, wind,… earth, water, fire, wind… earth,…

Using Self-Knowledge to Cure Physical Problems

The Abhidhamma too may be useful when encountering physical problems. For example: Learning to recognise the four elements, may help a person to make a start in balancing out coarse imbalances of those elements inside the body. How this can be done will be elaborated on below. Understanding the natural sequence of the functions of…