Category: mindfulness
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What’s the point of meditating? (part 2)
How meditation can lead is to see we have agency in our lives and how we can use that to meet the world with more compassion
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The sweater my mum knitted me
I went to buy a coffee and slice of cake. The young woman serving me explained it was a vegan cake and I might notice a different taste and I said I didn’t mind and that lemon and elderflower sounded just what I wanted. Then when taking my money she said she commented she liked…
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What’s the point of meditating? (part 1)
A short post on how meditation helps us get to know ourselves.
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What the fuck am I thinking?
Last week, I wrote this down in the book I was reading “Everything I think, do and say is an attempt to get way from or cover up what is actually here in the present moment. Everything.” And while this is certainly both an exaggeration and melodramatic, it is also blushed through with truth. And…
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My favourite chapter in any book on Buddhism or meditation
How I love Pema Chodron’s teaching and writing on meditation
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Meditation Guidance by Roberta Flack
Taking it easy on a cold wet November Saturday afternoon. Deservingly so too, coming after two long long weeks. Got some old soul music playing and then, and then. ….on the outro to Roberta Flack “Go up Moses” I hear her saying this My people, let pharaoh goYou don’t need him; you don’t need his…
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Living at Sharpham Barn retreat centre
I have been living and working at Sharpham Barn retreat centre for three months now. They asked me to write about it help promote the venue and I am sharing that link here. Click here There is a meditation included with the article that I will also attach to my next post on here. But…
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Weary yet willing part 1
This post is just about how I feel when it all grows huge and surrounds me. I will follow it with how we can live with and respond kindly to such things (click here), but for now please excuse so many words just about me…… There is a new born gloom that, without me having…
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