Category: Blog

The Power of Playfulness ~ A New Way of Meeting Life

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Emilio Mercuriali
2025-04-29

There’s a quiet courage in being playful – because to be truly playful means showing up as we are, spontaneously, without hiding behind self-judgment. As children, playfulness was simply the way we met the world. We explored without hesitation, acted without self-consciousness, and learned through wonder rather than fear. Over time, as life shaped us, […]

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Peter Harper ~ Mandali Insight Questionnaire

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Peter Harper
2025-04-11

In stillness, truth speaks. Through our new “Beyond the Surface – an Insight Questionnaire”, we invite the voices of our Mandali community to echo what’s most real. This time, we turn to Peter Harper—The Drunken Monk—whose words remind us that gentleness can be revolutionary, and silence, a doorway.Here, he reflects on life, self, and the […]

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A Method to Integrate Your Meditation Practice into Your Digital Life

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Jonathan Garner
2025-03-07

A confession It’s 2015 and I’m half-way through the meditation retreat that I attend each year in southern France. The sun is beating down outside, and the large group of practitioners are gathered in the relative cool inside the shrine room. Only I’m not with them. Instead, I’m locked in a toilet cubicle and glued […]

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The Path of Love: A Transformative Journey to Your True Self

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Abigail Iquo Isuo Rafia Morgan
2025-01-29

Path of Love is a 7-day immersive experience of deep inner work. It is a transformative journey designed to strip away the masks we wear and reveal the essence of who we truly are. Since its creation 30 years ago, the process has remained fundamentally the same while continually evolving to meet the needs of […]

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Mandali Moments ~ Beyond the Surface

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Silvia Eriksson Fidan Huseyni
2025-01-27

At Mandali, we believe that your spiritual path deepens by asking the right questions—questions that go beyond the surface to touch the essence of who we are. This questionnaire is an invitation to reflect, explore, and share. It’s playfully designed to spark insights into your life, your journey, and your vision for the future. Whether […]

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Some Ideas on How to Continue after a Retreat

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Steve Cope
2025-01-11

At the end of a retreat I am often asked how to continue a regular meditation practice once we get home. Usually, on a retreat everyone is meditating together at the same time and everything is laid out for us making it easy do the meditation. It can sometimes feel harder not to practise! When […]

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A Purposeful Heart ~ Interview with Ajahn Mahāpañño

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Ajahn Mahāpañño
2024-11-29

Can you tell us a little about your lineage? Is it part of the Thai Forest Tradition? Yes, our lineage is the Ajahn Chah and Sumedho lineage, and we are part of the Thai Forest Tradition. We belong to a network of monasteries spread around the world. Most of them are in Thailand, but there […]

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Teachings from an Elephant

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Tanja van der Laan
2024-11-28

I arrived at Mandali on a Sunday afternoon. After the opening ceremony, the day was coming to an end, when I joined my first yoga practice in temple. As I was closing my eyes, breathing consciously, letting in clear energy and releasing what no longer served me, the forehead of a big white elephant emerged […]

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Beyond the Paradigm of Separation: The Foundations for World Peace

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Rupert Spira
2024-11-08

Over the millennia, humanity has struggled with deep and pressing problems: suffering in our hearts, conflict in our communities, war among nations and the degradation of our planet. Not a moment passes without a major news outlet drawing attention to our deeply troubling times. These issues are typically given cursory explanations with little, if any, […]

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The Human Experience

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Emilio Mercuriali
2024-10-12

Our life can be a wonderful experience, but it can also be mediocre and unfulfilling. At times, we feel free and full of potential, but other times, we find ourselves lost, unsure of what we truly want. We often invest our energy and potential into activities that lack meaning and fall into habits designed primarily […]

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