Category: suffering
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Just turn on with me and you’re not alone
Woke up feeling low and blue down in my belly. Head full of it too. Made a mug of tea and returned to bed. Meditated on body sensations, just body sensations – most of which flowed out like an overlooked tide. I didn’t want any of this; today’s stuff or tomorrow’s plans and outcomes either.…
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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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Quiet Tuesdays
In times of hardship or stress people have a tendency to cut themselves off from others. Such self isolation compounds the original discomfort by making someone feel like they are suffering alone – and maybe even that they are the only person that feels like that. In the longer term this can lead to guilt…
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Practice diary: 11th October
I have said it before, but people just presume I will always be mindful because I teach mindfulness. They are wrong. Over the weekend the heater for the shower sprung a leak. The ceiling on the floor below developed some brownish patches and the cupboard the white box was in was drenched. The house electrics…
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When things don’t go well
Why is there suffering? Why is life so crap? Why is it such a cruel world? I just want to be happy. Years ago, so the story goes, a woman hears of a wise old guru in a far off foreign land. So she travels many, many days to see the teacher. When she reaches…
