Category: mindfulness
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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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Amongst the trees
“Go to the forest, to the foot of a tree” the Buddha I lay on the slope upon the shiny ivy and snappy twigs. I was under a fuchsia bush showing the last of its lipstick red cups to the October air. The fuchsia itself was beneath an ordinary maple that was just about keeping…
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Is Mindfulness a superpower?
I do like this short video from Happify which explains how mindfulness and meditation can help us face the negative events and emotions in our lives. Sitting still and observing isn’t an answer to everything but it sure puts things on the right footing. What I’d like to add – and maybe there is another…
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Doing something without doing something
If you have sat with me in a mindfulness session or two then chances are you will have heard the Tchich Nhat Hanh lines below. They strike a chord for me as they are ridiculously simple instructions and yet they hold all of what could be taught. Breathing in, I know I’m breathing inBreathing out,…
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Yes, yes but of course
Spring is here. No surprise. Happens every year. Happened before I was born and will happen long after I have passed. Change change and change once more. The Earth spins at 1,000 mph at the equator and orbiting at 66,000 mph and the next season is always full tilt upon us. “Time is a jet…
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