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2024
“I stroll along the stream up to where it ends. I sit down watching the clouds as they begin to rise. Wang Wei”
“The inflation of the ego is brought about by its identification with the collective values. — Carl Jung”
On this, World Meditation Day, a few random thoughts on practice: • You can’t do meditation wrong. There’s no success or failure. • In practicing...
Apparently it’s World Meditation Day today. Who knew? Not me for one! If I had any advice for anyone embarking on any meditative/ contemplative self...
If there’s no problem, there’s no problem.
“Yes, the shit can be a burden. But an even bigger burden is the feeling that one has to be responsible for perpetually managing that...
“Don’t expect too much from therapy. — James Low” When I first heard James say this on his podcast it stopped me in my tracks....
What is before words Sensations before expression Being before description This without time Life raw before suffering hope and fear
“Now ask yourself this: which matters most when it comes to human dignity, value or importance? Methinks the answer here is crystal clear: importance, of course, is more...
It’s now clear that Christmas this year will be minimal but good enough. For a million differing and tiny reasons (money being only one) our...
The most profound recognition finds its complete realisation without articulation.
“I have nothing to say and I am saying it and that is poetry as I need it. — John Cage”
What we are does not exist in language.
Zen koans paradoxically use language to demonstrate the absurdity and futility of language in recognising the nature of mind.
Initially we can see there is the territory and the map. Then we see through the map and recognise it is just more territory. And...
Dzogchen according to James Low
Dzogchen is a particular flavour of Tibetan Buddhism. Its essential insights into the nature of mind can appear somewhat arcane. But not in the hands...
View from the sofa. I can’t move. I’m practically in a coma.
I’m listening to my wife play Monument Valley 3 and I feel like I’ve had a full body massage I’m so relaxed.
The only way is through
“Modern luxury is the ability to think clearly, sleep deeply, move slowly, and live quietly in a world designed to prevent all four. — Justin...
“Just as a man still is what he always was, so he already is what he will become. The conscious mind does not embrace the...
“Everything is precisely, exactly as it is, but doesn't arrive anywhere. There's no conclusion. It's pattern after pattern after pattern. — James Low”
“I’ve heard so many people who are living with a cancer that is going to take them away say that there is a vernacular around...
“A way of liberation can have no positive definition. It has to be suggested by saying what it is not. — Alan Watts, The Way...
“How old am I? I AM forever. As old as I’ve always been. — How old are you?”
With Bluesky’s current explosive growth, now seems like a good time to run a mile.
“Wisdom consists in doing the next thing you have to do, doing it with your whole heart, and finding delight in doing it. — Meister...
If you do one thing today, open your hand and heart and let go of whatever you’re holding onto. What we want is happy to...
You are not a problem to be solved.
Just as nothing is gained or attained, nothing is lost or wasted.
You can’t take credit for yourself, only responsibility.
“You know that the antidote to exhaustion is not necessarily rest? … The antidote to exhaustion is wholeheartedness. ― David Whyte, Crossing the Unknown Sea”
One my favourite book titles. It also happens to be a great book too.
The only possible place to get to, the only attainable perspective, the only condition one simply cannot help experiencing is the present moment whatever it...
There is nothing to be done but see ourselves clearly. With this clear recognition, what happens next is what happens next regardless of what we...
“Therefore, I do not view the self as an improvement project that begins with incompletion and evolves towards completion. The chaos does not need to...
“A man in love is unmasked. He has no preferences, makes no distinctions, acknowledges no differences, sees himself in everyone. He has, in effect, ceased...
Cold feet Warm heart Today
You are here now… https://youtu.be/V2zbpKvcLH8 [Robert Saltzman]The Ten Thousand Things
We had a power cut today so I spent the time chopping wood for the stoves. What’s the cliché? He who chops the wood warms...
