by Amanda Metta | Mar 10, 2018 | My Year at a Vipassana Center
On Mettā-day, the purpose of this whole technique is taught, or this is how I feel about it at least. For 9 days we’d been deprogramming ourselves to have a clear mind by day 10. This is important, because whatever thoughts, wishes and desires are there with you...
by Amanda Metta | Mar 9, 2018 | My Year at a Vipassana Center
We were all siting at 142 Lea Bridge Road, London, a place of cultural get-together, free exploration and all kinds of young hearted shenanigans. My introverted nature did not put me at the forefront of events, yet I was part of the mix, due to my newly found...
by Amanda Metta | Mar 2, 2018 | Blog
We all can be a little hard on ourselves. How often do we think that we should have figured this or that out by now, or that surely we should have been more successful here or there, had we just made better choices. Don’t we all wonder at times whether we should...
by Amanda Metta | Feb 5, 2018 | Blog, Healing
Tantra is such a big topic that I dare not attempt to convey my understanding of it in one blog post. While tantra for me personally usually refers to certain Tibetan Buddhist Practices, there is no denying the fact that the words mostly associated with the word...
by Amanda Metta | Jun 23, 2015 | Blog
Compassion. I often hear it in context of feeling sorry for another. The quality of compassion, is quite the opposite of feeling sorry for another. Compassion derives from experiential understanding of another’s situation or position. Compassion is...
