Tag: Appamada

Taking a break

I read a post on Marguerite Manteau-Rao’s Mind Deep Blog yesterday, and it got me thinking. Marguerite’s Blog is usually good at doing that for me. Basically it was about deciding between constant practice and mindfulness, or the need for…

Forget the funny words!

Mindful? Me? I think not my friends. Day after day I write these posts, and never consider that there may be many people reading this who are not Buddhist. When I use words like dharma, sangha, appamada, dukkha etc., what…

Don’t be late

Last night I was speaking to Bhante Samita, and he commented that he read yesterdays post about being heedful. He mentioned that I used the word Appamada, and I said yes I did. Bhante said, “you know, that means don’t…

Heedful

Well here’s another word we don’t hear very often. Probably because most of us are not in fact heedful. Let’s start with a definition of the word heedful: –adjective taking heed; attentive; mindful; thoughtful; careful: She was always heedful of…