Tag: Letting go
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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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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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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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I sit content
I never bothered with reading poems until a few years back. I think I probably started at the time I was using twitter a lot. It may be a coincidence, but I still have little enthusiasm for reading verse if it stretches for much more than a page. I have a Walt Whitman book and…
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The inescapable fact of life
I love to sit on a bench in graveyard. Or take a slow walk around reading the details of people and their deeds, all spoken for by a few words and dates on a stone resting perpendicular to the ground. It’s a simple place. Life is shaved back to a couple of components. There are…
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Happy Christmas. May you be ready for the joy and everything it brings
A month ago there was a beautiful poem being shared a lot around social media. It is called ‘Joy Chose You’ written by Donna Ashworth. You can read it below. I liked it that much I used it as part of a Quiet Tuesday practice. It speaks so well of gratitude and of not letting…
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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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Owning Up
The goodbye speeches have been made and applauded. I have a couple of cards, with some beautifully written words in them and just the present I needed. I’ve hugged people I haven’t even touched in years of working with them and I put a box of photos and other memories in a box and driven…
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