Category: Beginner’s mind
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I hear you Mittakali, I hear you
The woman who wrote this lived about 2600 years ago. But she described her practice as though it were mine “I watched my thoughts/ piling themselves up/ all around me/…. Soon it was a whole city.” And now I am sitting here reassured in the knowledge that my situation is normal, probably common. There are…
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7 Attitudes to Mindfulness
“Full Catastrophic Living” by Jon Kabat Zinn is so frequently described as landmark or classic or masterpiece that there is almost an obligation to have it on your shelf if you are at all interested in secular mindfulness. But then it’s size at 600+ pages means it can be left untouched. So maybe, like a…
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Starting Mindfulness
First things first, you don’t have to have a mindfulness teacher because all you need to know is Breathe in and know you are breathing in; breathe out and know you are breathing out. That is it. So yes, you could say anyone who is a mindfulness teacher is a fraud because as far as…
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