[This is the 2nd part of a interview I did with New Zealand based teacher Peter Fernando. It appeared on his site A Month of Mindfulness.] Peter: So another question I have relates to what you call an ‘Open Source’ approach to meditation, where there is a freedom to draw from all kinds of practices. [...]
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Jul
22
Mahumudra and the Ships in the Harbor
The Ships in the Harbor technique is a way of pointing to “the essential nature of mind.” One of the challenges for beginning and intermediate students is the tendency to fix upon subtle phenomena and try to possess them. The Ships in the Harbor technique uses the act of listening to tease the mind away [...]
Jul
10
On Vulnerability, Knowing and Not-Knowing
This is an excerpt of an interview I participated in with Peter Fernando, a former monk in the Thai Forest Tradition who now lives and teaches in New Zealand. His teaches and blogs from A Month of Mindfulness. Peter: The most recent article on your website is around the theme of vulnerability – I found [...]
Jun
09
Vulnerability Will Definitely Kill You
“I say vulnerable is woundable.” – The Guru Pitka So much of what I’ve been learning about lately is around vulnerability. Vulnerability in a psychological sense, of seeing my own limitations and being willing to acknowledge them. And also in a more cognitive and spiritual sense. The cognitive vulnerability has to do with dropping common [...]