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What Were Your Highlights in 2009?

by David on January 4, 2010

bright spot

The first week of January is a natural time to look back. Just as the earth begins another whirl around the Sun, we can’t avoid confronting the reality that yet another sizable chunk of lifetime has been sealed and locked away in the archives. We don’t get many of those chunks, seventy or eighty if [...]

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What Five Days of Silence Taught Me

by David on November 5, 2009

Just before flying to Thailand, I spent five days at a retreat community called Hollyhock. It’s a humble, rootsy little hamlet on the relatively remote Cortes Island. I knew very little about the program I’d signed up for, only that it was about Buddhism.
It turns out that it was a rather intense regimen of meditation. [...]

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The Results Are In — Experiment No. 1, Day 30

by David on May 6, 2009

Buddha dog

David began a 30-day daily meditation experiment on April 6, 2009.  The original post is here. David’s progress log is here.
Well, the first official Raptitude experiment has come to an end.  I just got up from my final meditation session. As far as I can tell, I am not enlightened.  I can neither hear the [...]

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David vs. Monkey Mind — Meditation Experiment: Day 15

by David on April 21, 2009

Monkey mind

David began a 30-day daily meditation experiment on April 6, 2009.  The original post is here. David’s progress log is here.
Well it’s been a real trip so far.  Here we are at the halfway point.
After a rocky first week, I’ve settled into a comfortable groove.  But it took a bit of trailblazing.  About a week [...]

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Raptitude Experiment No. 1 — Sharpening the Mind

by David on April 7, 2009

Little Buddha

Little Buddha says, “Chill out.”
In my About section, I mentioned that experimentation is important to the spirit of Raptitude.  From the start, this blog has been about improving humanity through improving yourself, and improving yourself primarily by developing mental skills.  Most of the skills I’ve talked about already, namely  keeping life fresh, investing your attention [...]

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