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MEDITATION INSTRUCTION BY DAN RODMAN
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Prolonged Meditation Practice
Meditation is nice when it is done intermittently. It makes you feel good and has a calming effect on the body and mind. However,...
Daniel Rodman
Sep 25, 20192 min read
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Love Innate, Inspired, Efforted, Cultivated and Transcendent
Love has many phases and states. I would like to describe how our love can be innate, inspired, efforted, cultivated and transcendent....
Daniel Rodman
Sep 23, 20193 min read
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The Labyrinth
A man finds himself in the middle of a great labyrinth. Every turn he takes there is either traps or treasures. He travels this...
Daniel Rodman
Sep 18, 20191 min read
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Dying to the Transcendent
There is an experience in spiritual practice and particularly in deep meditative practice that is a pivotal transformation that takes...
Daniel Rodman
Sep 16, 20192 min read
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Spiritual Materialism
Spirituality is not for show, its not for status, its not for fame or for mere physical pleasure. When spirituality is used in some way...
Daniel Rodman
Sep 10, 20192 min read
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Stage Fright
Everyone knows to an extent the feeling of stage fright. That is to have anxiety about performing in front of others. Whether we...
Daniel Rodman
Sep 9, 20193 min read
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Comparing
When we compare we look at how two or more things are similar and/or different. Comparing can either make someone or something more...
Daniel Rodman
Sep 4, 20193 min read
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Praise and Blame
When we praise and blame we raise up or put down someone because of their actions. This is inevitably based on specific circumstances in...
Daniel Rodman
Aug 28, 20192 min read
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Boredom
Everyone feels bored at one point or another. Seems like there is just nothing to do. We can keep looking for more things to do, but in...
Daniel Rodman
Aug 26, 20191 min read
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Button Push Exercise
Everyone has something that pushes their buttons. Some things make you frustrated, angry. Some things can be a trigger for addiction or...
Daniel Rodman
Aug 21, 20191 min read
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Devotion
On the topic of devotion I speak of the type of devotion that is a giving of yourself to someone or something. Much like longing (see...
Daniel Rodman
Aug 19, 20192 min read
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Longing
Longing is a heartfelt desire to be united with someone or something, or to fulfill some goal or purpose. Longing is always a feeling of...
Daniel Rodman
Aug 14, 20193 min read
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Anatomy of Appreciation
There are many ways to appreciate things and people. I would like to offer an account of these ways based on grosser to subtler levels of...
Daniel Rodman
Aug 12, 20192 min read
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To See
To see, I notice the fog, a covering of clarity. I open my mouth, to sing, and the fog churns and dances a play of graceful forms. I open...
Daniel Rodman
Aug 7, 20191 min read
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The Limited Senses
It is easy to think that what we experience is the true reality, that what we see, hear, smell, taste, and touch is 100% accurate. What...
Daniel Rodman
Aug 5, 20193 min read
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Limitless Change
When we investigate the nature of the present moment we realize that it is in a constant state of change. The atoms around us are in a...
Daniel Rodman
Jul 31, 20192 min read
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Healing the Past
Negative experiences are inevitable in this world we live in. That we cannot change. What we can change, however, is how we relate to...
Daniel Rodman
Jul 28, 20193 min read
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Meaning in Space and Time
The meaning of things or their meaningfulness has a nature that is fully dependent on space and time, meaning it only happens in certain...
Daniel Rodman
Jul 24, 20193 min read
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The Layers of the Heart
Our emotional and spiritual heart is not straight forward. It has many dynamic layers that are very different from each other. There are...
Daniel Rodman
Jul 21, 20193 min read
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The One and the Many
The One was beyond words, until it said the first word: Itself. Then, thinking it was its word it thought the world. It said, “what a...
Daniel Rodman
Jul 15, 20191 min read
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