Tag: mind
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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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Why I am writing
My writing is driven by selfish desire to notice better how I am doing and no to much by hoping to enlighten others.
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Slowing down mindfulness
It is difficult to fully understand and accept the idea that there are no intended outcomes from practising mindfulness. It isn’t going to fit on a performance management sheet. It won’t sit easily as part of a self improvement plan. Instead, the invitation is to let go of the idea of not being good enough,…
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Why TRUSTING Mind?
At the heart of mindfulness is the truth that it is the teaching not the teacher that matters. We practice paying attention to the breath, to the body, to the feeling and to the mind and then apply that to the ups and downs, the stresses and strains of your own day to day experiences.…