I’ve been contemplating the meditation session at the yoga centre last week. It was all very pleasant and I will certainly go again even though...
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““One has to discover everything for oneself. And get over it all alone.”” — Too-Ticky/ Tove Jansson
““Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn't go away.” — Philip K. Dick
““Academia is where the vitality of the human spirit goes to die.”” — Anon It seems to me antithetical to turn the wholly subjective practice...
We have within us the dual ability to be our own worst enemy as well as our own best friend. Looking back I spent far...
““To directly recognise how consciousness is in each moment, prior to any identification with thought, is the most important thing I've ever learned.”” — Sam...
I consider myself extraordinarily lucky to have grown up in a kind of enforced but benign solitude, being an only child and living in a...
Imaginings can always be lost. Reality never goes away.
I listened to an inadvertently funny Wisdom of the Masters podcast episode on my drive to work this morning. It was a reading of Dzogchen...
Such a beautiful drive to work this morning. Clear blue sky, crisp freezing air, the massive yellow orb of the sun just creeping up over...
Really looking forward to seeing All We Imagine As Light this Friday at the Borderlines film festival. So many good films showing but just not...
““Reality does not need to be solved. It does not require a conclusion. The mind may demand answers, but life itself moves effortlessly without them....
Whenever allusions are made to some sort of fundamental ground, source, bedrock, original anything, basis, essence/ essentialism etc. they simply don’t ring true. My feeling...
““Do not make being quiet into a task to be performed. Relax. There is nothing to practice.”” — Nisargadatta Maharaj
A couple of passages, first from Meister Eckhart and then Emma Jung’s reflections upon it. Purely for my own purposes I have replaced the word...
I’ll take as many of these freezing, clear dawns as the universe can give.
““…there's an increasing and deepening and wonderful sense that growth towards truly appreciating the actual nature of what gets called spiritual involves an ever-fuller, ever-clearer...
Home from work. Position assumed.
In answer to my own question. No, blog URL/ domains do not matter, to me at least. I've pondered this on and off over the...
Despite having a far more equanamous relationship with the weather these days I can't help but feel the lift that comes with lighter mornings and...
““Our urges, impulses, abilities, inabilities, talents, interests and actions emerge unbidden from the whole universe. No wave can go in a direction other than the...
““It is in our nature, it seems, to try to possess for ourselves things that are received by gift alone. In our fear of losing...
Brilliant and urgent from Annie Mueller. Despite the horrors, the laundry must be done; Despite the laundry, the horrors must be faced.
Zen is feeling life, not something about life.
Nothing is left behind. We are always everything that has ever happened.
I rarely talk about apps these days having switched careers and not having projects to manage anymore. But I currently have the project of secretly...
There is no friction to living or doing anything in life 'out there' in the world. All friction is right here, right now in our...
“"One lives as one can..."” — Carl Jung, Your Questions Are Unanswerable
These are staring at me in a not altogether unthreatening way…
““The fact that life has no meaning is a reason to live – moreover, the only one.” ” ― E. M. Cioran
““Thoughts are natural events that you do not possess, and whose meaning you only imperfectly recognize.”” — Carl Jung
“If you are lonely when you are alone, you are in bad company.” — Jean-Paul Sartre
What a world. Went to bed last night having watched a tiny, frightened, weak and cowardly bully throw a tantrum with his fingers in his...
Everything is always it.
So far still all in the bed, for now…
Got a fridge full of perfectly decent food but there’s a really good local pop up pizza van just turned up down the road… what...
Went to a new meditation session this evening at the local yoga centre. Really good. Non-prescriptive, gentle guidance in a beautiful setting and well attended....
““Memory is a liar. It's a heap of dog-eared, smudged, incessantly revised fictions.”” — Peter Schjeldahl
Another glorious day. That is all.
““Character — the willingness to accept responsibility for one’s own life — is the source from which self-respect springs.”” — Joan Didion
OK, so tonight she’s missed her bed completely and ended up with her head under a chair 🤷♂️
““* is the most important thing you can do, so don’t take it so seriously.””
Just starting to plot/ plan my wife’s 60th birthday celebrations in August. 1. Steal my wife’s contacts ✅ 2. Start secretly conspiring with all her...
There is definitely a lack of humour in meditative/ contemplative/ so-called spiritual discourse. Zen well understands the value of humour and playfulness when trying to...
We now live in uncertain times. We have agents of chaos at the helm and we must make the best of it we can. To...
To walk is to contemplate.
We no more think our thoughts than we beat our hearts or digest our food. Thought is automatic, spontaneous and just as essential as all...
It’s a beautiful day out there. A walk across the fields in the sunshine for coffee seems like a good idea.
