Ryanshelton7

LATEST ARTICLES ( 402 )

• Year 2 as a Delaware High School Teacher

  Life keeps moving along. I’ve got some good news to report. Dhamma Delaware is working on a huge expansion which will increase capacity from 15 to around 60... Read more

  Posted on 10 September 2016 BODY, MIND, SPIRIT, SPIRITUALITY

• A Lovely Hug

  Even before Joely or JJ, my daughter, was born nearly two years ago, I struggled with  prioritising making two hours available for meditation every day. Read more

  Posted on 01 September 2016 BODY, MIND, SPIRIT, SPIRITUALITY

• Love the World, Don’t Try to Change It

  As a youth, I wanted to change the world. More accurately, I wanted to fix it to my desired state, and be the glorious hero. On my quest, I acknowledged the... Read more

  Posted on 25 August 2016 BODY, MIND, SPIRIT, SPIRITUALITY

• Everyone Can Be Happy If We Stop Trying to Win

  Survival of the fittest is awesome because it turns everything into a game. If I’m bigger, faster, and stronger, I will win and survive. I can spend my whole... Read more

  Posted on 18 August 2016 BODY, MIND, SPIRIT, SPIRITUALITY

• Love People, Fight Harmful Qualities

  It’s extremely easy to react negatively to adverse situations and blame others for our circumstances, but the anger we project on others only makes situations... Read more

  Posted on 11 August 2016 BODY, MIND, SPIRIT, SPIRITUALITY

• Connecting the Dots

  While I’ve experienced the benefits of meditation with my own experience, it bothers me that I can’t figure out the connections. When I’m meditating 2 hours a... Read more

  Posted on 05 August 2016 BODY, MIND, SPIRIT, SPIRITUALITY

• Confidence is Complicated

  Learning Vipassana caused me to stop evaluating my life based on my accomplishments in the world and to start looking inside. While my resume looked pretty good... Read more

  Posted on 29 July 2016 BODY, MIND, SPIRIT, SPIRITUALITY

• Becoming a Householder

  Another chapter in my Vipassana journey is beginning as some previous chapters are coming to a close. This past year has not been about Vipassana. Read more

  Posted on 22 July 2016 BODY, MIND, SPIRIT, SPIRITUALITY

• Meet My Wife

  Start again! I started this blog in 2012 to share my journey through the tumultuous beginnings of my Vipassana adventure. Establishing a daily practice of 2... Read more

  Posted on 15 July 2016 BODY, MIND, SPIRIT, SPIRITUALITY

• Rocky, But Beneficial

  I just completed my third 10-day Vipassana course a couple of days ago. It’s hard to believe that I’m a legitimate old student now—I remember regarding the old... Read more

  Posted on 10 July 2016 BODY, MIND, SPIRIT, SPIRITUALITY

• Deliberately NOT Sitting

  Today I’m deliberately NOT going to sit.  I think it will be a good idea.  I will start my daily sits again tomorrow, but today I won’t.  Why?Well, since I’ve... Read more

  Posted on 29 February 2016 BODY, MIND, SPIRIT, SPIRITUALITY

• Understand What You’re Doing

  It took me a while to understand what I was doing.  Then, it came to me.  What I was doing was understanding what I was doing.  For a while, I was in the proces... Read more

  Posted on 22 February 2016 BODY, MIND, SPIRIT, SPIRITUALITY

• Liveliness and Livelihood

  I have been having trouble deciding what to do with my life.  Most people think that we should find a career that is something we love to do, so that we can mak... Read more

  Posted on 15 February 2016 BODY, MIND, SPIRIT, SPIRITUALITY

• 10 Minutes a Day

  

  What does it take to bring meditation into your life? How much effort is required to change your life patterns? More and more people are becoming aware of the... Read more

  Posted on 12 February 2016 BODY, MIND, SPIRIT, SPIRITUALITY

• Sitting in Movement

  Every Monday night I go to a movement class.  The movement can be anything.  It can be stillness, like sitting cross-legged and still, or wild movements that... Read more

  Posted on 08 February 2016 BODY, MIND, SPIRIT, SPIRITUALITY

• Blowing the Mind with Dangerous Fire

  I was once addicted to marijuana.  It started as a recreational activity which I did with friends.  It inspired me with visions that I could use in my art and... Read more

  Posted on 01 February 2016 BODY, MIND, SPIRIT, SPIRITUALITY

• Dhamma in My Catholic High School

  I started teaching at a Catholic High School in August with the no intention of discussing meditation. I was hired to teach Chemistry and Physics, so that was m... Read more

  Posted on 29 January 2016 BODY, MIND, SPIRIT, SPIRITUALITY

• Between Things

  Marilyn and Steve snuck up behind me on the boardwalk where I’d been trying to still my fiery brain with the sound of rippling water. I’d seen them here before. Read more

  Posted on 28 January 2016 BODY, MIND, SPIRIT, SPIRITUALITY

• Returning to Living Vipassana

  I stopped writing regularly for this blog about 8 months ago. I had run out of things to say, and there were aspects of my life outside of dhamma that required... Read more

  Posted on 22 January 2016 BODY, MIND, SPIRIT, SPIRITUALITY

• Stopping and Snowballing

  Last week I started to stop my daily meditations.  By the end of the week I was not getting my two sits in.This problem reminds me of a poem that was in the... Read more

  Posted on 18 January 2016 BODY, MIND, SPIRIT, SPIRITUALITY