Tag: Non-Striving
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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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7 Attitudes to Mindfulness
“Full Catastrophic Living” by Jon Kabat Zinn is so frequently described as landmark or classic or masterpiece that there is almost an obligation to have it on your shelf if you are at all interested in secular mindfulness. But then it’s size at 600+ pages means it can be left untouched. So maybe, like a…