Blog | Daryl Vansier - Walk the Talk

Nov 28, 2022
3 min

The Walls Within

Suffering is a part of life. We need not add to it by imposing the expectation that we can or should abolish it. Ironically acceptance of...

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Nov 20, 2022
3 min

Is Intuition Real?

Some of you who know me might be surprised to hear that a person like me who was once a free-loving hippie, became a Buddhist monk and...

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Nov 6, 2022
2 min

Rhythms of the Day

This morning I woke up and wrote my morning pages (stream of consciousness writing) while sipping my bulletproof decaf coffee. I thought...

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Mar 18, 2022
2 min

History is toxic

Those of you who know me know that I love to share my beliefs and perspectives about what I consider to be the fundamentals of how to...

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Nov 26, 2021
3 min

Love is All You Need

This morning I deviated from my rule of not allowing distractions to precede my writing my morning pages. I saw an Instagram notification...

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Nov 21, 2021
4 min

The Big D

The teachings of Buddha have been interpreted in many different ways in different cultures over the 2500 years since his life on this...

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Nov 5, 2021
2 min

The Dance Between

Consciousness and the Feminine and Masculine Experience

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Oct 25, 2021
4 min

The Gift of In-Between

Embracing the dance: Be there to honour the gift of the moment.

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Aug 2, 2021
1 min

Are You Winning?

We all have our ways of greeting people. “How are you?” “What’s up?” “How ya doing today?” “What’s new?" “All good?” We often react to...

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Jun 20, 2021
3 min

On Attachment and Softness

For 11 years I avoided attachment as a Buddhist monk, dedicating myself to renouncing attachment believing that freeing myself from the...

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Jun 5, 2021
2 min

Time is of the Essence

Time is of the essence. Tread lightly lest you sink into stagnancy. Keep flowing with the current of life. Stagnancy slips into the past....

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Daryl Vansier

May 3, 2021
2 min

Carpe Momentum

There is no right order / Whatever came before and whatever is to follow/ Is contained in the now / So catch it on the fly.

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Daryl Vansier

May 3, 2021
3 min

The Point Of It All

When I sit down to meditate, my primary task is to reign in my mind.

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Apr 27, 2021
2 min

Wake Up To A New You

In the preceding day, I had watched an excellent Ted talk about how our brain hallucinates our conscious reality...

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Apr 27, 2021
3 min

The Unfinished Story of Life

Letting go requires awareness. In yoga this awareness manifests in active receptivity and receptive activity.

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Apr 26, 2021
4 min

Back Care and Some Background

This particular sequence is the culmination of over 40 years of research and practice on my own body and those of hundreds of clients.

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Apr 26, 2021
3 min

LOVE ME

When we actually experience intimacy with another or what we are avoiding inside ourselves, we are never hurt.

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Apr 26, 2021
2 min

It’s Never too Late: An Open Invitation

Over the years I have often been asked: When is the best time to meditate?

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Apr 26, 2021
4 min

Dharma and Karma

Dharma is the name given to the vast body of teachings of Buddha, the essence of which is contained in what's called The Four Noble Truths.

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Daryl Vansier

Apr 26, 2021
1 min

Awareness, a Conscious Habit.

There is one habit that is worth acquiring: awareness. What distinguishes this “habit” from all the others is that it cannot be automatic.

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