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Lalita’s Travels Chapter Three

by Dyana Wells | Apr 12, 2023 | Lalita

LALITA AT ORERE POINT – NOVEMBER 2022 I had been promised another adventure, an escape from my boring retirement where all I do is watch cars arrive and leave in the driveway of 24 Lily Street, Raglan. Some days, not regularly though, the woman from downstairs leaves...

Lalita’s Travels Chapter Four

by Dyana Wells | Apr 11, 2023 | Lalita

KAUERANGA VALLEY CAMPING – JANUARY 2023 We arrive on the 28th of December, and this time She drives me all the way down to the campsite. The first time I came here two years ago, she left me at Hajrama’s daughter’s place and she didn’t understand the problem with my...

Mindfulness and the Prefrontal Cortex

by Dyana Wells | Oct 10, 2019 | Buddhist Psychology, Integration, Meditation, Mindfulness, Psychology

A lot of us have heard about mindfulness and its possible benefits. Recently I have learned a few interesting things about the brain that have made the benefits of mindfulness meditation even clearer to me. Meditation produces a thickening of the prefrontal cortex –...

Introducing Kum Nye – Moving Meditation

by Dyana Wells | Oct 3, 2019 | Anatomy & Physiology, Integration, Kum Nye, Meditation, Mindfulness

I have been a student of Kum Nye for over thirty years, and I still love the simplicity and effectiveness of this practice. It comes from Tibet and was brought to the west by Tarthang Tulku in the 1970s. It has never become widely popular, which is a mystery to me,...

The Four Noble Truths and Modern Life

by Dyana Wells | Sep 26, 2019 | Buddhist Psychology, Integration, Meditation, Mindfulness, Psychology

The relevance of Buddha’s four noble truths in our modern lives The fundamental and most important teachings of the Buddha are disarmingly simple. There is suffering There is a cause of suffering There is an end of suffering There is a way to the end of suffering. It...