This compendium contains choice material from integratingpresence.com roughly spanning 2020 to 2024 — much of it original with plenty of quotes and links peppered in. Wide ranging topics include awakening, meditation, wisdom, service, metaphysics, reality, ethics, investigations, relationships, guidance, observations, heart qualities and practices, kindness, retreats, pain, empathy, energy, consciousness, and plenty more along these lines
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Introduction
This concise introduction forgoes inspiring wordsmithing for a brief, matter-of-fact context to choice material from integratingpresence.com roughly spanning 2020 to 2024 — much of it original with plenty of quotes and links peppered in. Wide ranging topics include awakening, meditation, wisdom, service, metaphysics, reality, ethics, investigations, relationships, guidance, observations, heart qualities and practices, kindness, retreats, pain, empathy, energy, consciousness, and plenty more along these lines.
As is the nature of websites and blogging there may be continued alterations on the site from what you see in this ebook. Integratingpresence.com owes much to the Theravada Buddhist tradition as I explore, investigate, expound, posit, and practice on plenty of my pet interests from the suttas as well as from honored teachers, scholars and practitioners. Like a blog, readers do not know what’s coming when but there’s a Table of Contents at the end for reference and convenience.
Much of what is drawn upon is provided free of charge. The small cost is for the production time. Please visit and support these sources as well as those I site who charge for their work. I claim no copyrights here. Proceed with discernment. Providing feedback can benefit future readers
josh dippold
Bollinger County, Missouri & Sejerø, Denmark
Summer 2024
[However, here’s a list of the articles/TOC at the end so you know what you’re getting if you want to know before getting the book:]
- Introduction
- An Alternative To The Unnecessary Risk And Peril Of A Goal Obsessed Lifestyle
- Why and Why Not to Question/Inquire
- Reducing Informational Warfare: Skillful Guidelines For Wholesome Internet Intake
- Addressing and Working with Pain On and Off the Cushion
- Dharmic Strategies For Empaths
- Buddha As Badass
- Studying And Practicing With “The Iddhipāda-Vibhaṅga Sutta — An Analysis Of The Bases Of Power” (SN 51:20):
- Studying And Practicing With “The Iddhipāda-Vibhaṅga Sutta — An Analysis Of The Bases Of Power”:
- Studying And Practicing With “The Iddhipāda-Vibhaṅga Sutta — An Analysis Of The Bases Of Power”:
- Studying And Practicing With “The Iddhipāda-Vibhaṅga Sutta — An Analysis Of The Bases Of Power”:
- Studying And Practicing With “The Iddhipāda-Vibhaṅga Sutta — An Analysis Of The Bases Of Power”:
- Studying And Practicing With “The Iddhipāda-Vibhaṅga Sutta — An Analysis Of The Bases Of Power”:
- Studying And Practicing With “The Iddhipāda-Vibhaṅga Sutta — An Analysis Of The Bases Of Power”:
- Wisdom Snippets: The Murkiness, Blocks And Obstructions Of Past Life Discernment
- Is Reading This Worth $10,000 An Hour?
- Addressing (Energetic) Blockages
- Inclusive Compassion Practice (as not to neglect the other Bhramaviharas, or Sublime Abidings)
- How To Find (Meditation) Teachers
- Observations And Questions For The Book “The Search For The Buddha”
- Cultivate, Develop, Train And Progress Discernment
- Ask For A Change
- Classic Images For The Five Hindrances
- On Relics, Design, Wealth And Merit Of The Shwedagon Pagoda In Myanmar Burma
- (Discerning) Deception
- Another Buddhist forum post shutdown: (Buddhist) origin of tobacco and its relation to Native American use(?)
- Full Of Love
- Quashing Gossip
- The Pernicious English Language
- Wisdom Snippets: (Do It Yourself Buddhadharma) Encouragements And Empowerments
- Wisdom Snippets: The Four Brahmaviharas For Each Of The Four Noble Truths
- (Buddhist) Mudras
- Irregular Inquires — ‘Let None Deceive Another’
- (Mapped) (Star)gates, Grids, Portals, Hubs, Pillars, Networks And Vortex Locations
- A Response To A Reader About Troubling Thoughts
- Meditation Support Language: Some Alternatives For “Ignore”
- Translations And Musings On The Last Words Of The Buddha
- Travel And Moving To Expand Perception And Awareness
- Questions And Points Put To Leigh Brasington On “Psychic Powers” In The Suttas
- Grandiose Thought Experiments To Show Up Like Never Before
- Somewhat Advanced (Yet Mostly Mundane) Practices
- Initiating Mindfulness To The Fore As The Foremost Meditation Instruction
- Why is our experience inextricably linked to our body and its place in the world?
- Rote “Spiritual” AI
- How To Investigate Relics?
- Lankavatara Sutra: Notes And Questions
- Extraordinary Investigations Into (Earlier) Buddhist Accounts
- Four Elements (Meditation) Resources
- About the Author
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