Tag: Buddhism
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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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What’s the point of meditating? (part 1)
A short post on how meditation helps us get to know ourselves.
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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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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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New Year’s resolutions? Give good fortune a helping hand instead.
It’s New Year’s and all the talk is of the opportunity to throw out the old self and design a new and improved version. Markers like New Year are the most effective time to set goals; the brain is ready and open to see the opportunity for change. But resolutions are often underpinned by assumptions…
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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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The First Free Women
I’ve never reviewed a book of poems before, let alone one that is ‘the world’s oldest collection of women’s literature’. But as soon as this was delivered I was picking it up daily to read or reread or re-reread a poem. This is without doubt an inspiring collection, oozing with both courage and compassion. These…
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