Noirin’s Teachings

Noirin's Bio

Short Essays / Tips:

  1. Satipanya Porridge
  2. The "Ouch" that hurt.
  3. Coming down to earth
  4. Extending the limits of good-will
  5. Metta for a Cold Heart
  6. The Fourth Noble Truth
  7. Struggling with Anatta
  8. Temporary Ordination
  9. Retreating and Re-engaging
  10. Homeward Bound
  11. All in the Mind
  12. Summer meadows
  13. As Winter Approaches
  14. 2020 Lockdown Christmas 
  15. Exiting Lockdown

The following essays were written in the year or so after Noirin underwent surgery for throat cancer which took away her voice:

  1. Greeting the Devadutta
  2. Laryngectomy
  3. Stumbling towards Gratitude
  4. Mid-winter Darkness
  5. Teaching with an Electro-larynx: The Oval Age-Old Bath???

The following essays centre around climate change and a paper describing six ethical maxims we need to develop to be able to cope with the assocated social and environmental collapse:

  1. Full Catastrophe Ethics
  2. First Maxim: Work Hard to Grasp the Imensity
  3. Second Maxim: Cultivate Radical Hope
  4. Third Maxim: Draw a Line in the Sand - a. Ethics in the face of conflict
  5. Third Maxim: Draw a line in the Sand - b. Working mindfully with red lines
  6. Fourth Maxim: Appreciate the Amazing and Unique Upportunity - a: From Suffering to Faith to Gladness.
  7. Fourth Maxim: Appreciate the Amazing and Unique Opportunity - b. From Dukkha to Insight and Beyond.

Meditation Guidance:

  1. Vipassana Instructions

Talks

  1. The First Noble truth - Impermanence and Unsatisfactoriness
  2. The First noble truth - Not-Self and Unsatisfactoriness
  3. The Second Noble Truth - The Cause of Unsatisfactoriness
  4. The Third Noble Truth - The End of Unsatisfactoriness
  5. The Fourth Noble Truth - The Path Leading to the End of Unsatisfactoriness