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Bert van Baar

Bert van Baar

Hi, I have been meditating for thirty years and I have studied with a Tibetan lama for 20 years now. I'm a writer and hold a PhD in Cultural Anthropology. I published books on Tibet, Buddhism and the Dalai Lama. Currently I'm involved in the curriculum team of a new study Buddhist Spiritual Care at the Free University in Amsterdam. I have been working as an instructor on Rigpa Courses since 1994.
Friday, 08 April 2011 23:24

Mind-Boggling Blogging

Mind-Boggling Blogging
Somehow it’s hard for me to talk about meditation without relating it to some notion of teacher and teaching. Perhaps you already have a teacher and made a decision long ago that it’s time to get serious, or maybe you don’t want to have anything to do with teachers, but you think meditation might be a good idea. Whatever it may be, once you start practising you’ll also start to notice the constant blogging that’s going on in your mind. I’m talking about these opinion makers, commenting on every move you make - filling the pages of your inner web till your head becomes so thick you can’t differentiate between conception and perception. It’s a common problem.
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