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Mindfulness & Change: Personal Reflections as well as Resources, Information and Encouragement.

An accepting gaze

In a true you-and-I relationship, we are present mindfully, non-intrusively, the way we are present with things in nature. We do not tell a birch tree it should be more like an elm. We face it with...

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Being with

Mindfulness is simply being aware of what is happening right now without wishing it were different; Enjoying the pleasant without holding on when it changes (which it will); Being with the...

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Permanance and impermanence

Stars and blossoming fruit trees: Utter permanence and extreme fragility give an equal sense of eternity. Simone Weil photo il conte di luna Filed under: Make the most of life Tagged: balance,...

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Clear, open space

We might think of the mind as being like clear, open space. All kinds of things arise there, but the space is not affected….In meditation and in our lives, it is not so important what particular...

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Speeding up or slowing down

What I’ve noticed is that there are two main ways that fear of uncertainty affects us, at least initially. One is that we speed up and the other is that we get very lazy. As I’ve talked with people...

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Life is like this

Life is like this. You can’t say it’s a banquet all the time. Breath going in… I wouldn’t describe that as a banquet, or that the sound of silence is life at its best, where it’s just one laugh...

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Controlling the weather

I have had some visitors staying these past days. The weather so far this year has been very unusual for this area, with clouds and rain dominating in the last few week. This certainly can make...

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Noticing ordinary perfection

To overcome perfectionism, you’d have to learn to accept reality for what it is at any given moment. I can imagine the objections: ” What? Accept the reality as it is? You must be kidding me!” Not...

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Without effort

With no mind, flowers lure the butterfly; With no mind, the butterfly visits the blossoms. Yet when flowers bloom, the butterfly comes; When the butterfly comes, the flowers bloom. Taigu Ryokan,...

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Seeing through thoughts

Most of us are trained to believe that if we think something is good, it is good, and if we think something is bad, it is bad. But as we practice simply watching our thoughts come and go, such...

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The process of working with difficulties

As a practice, this process can be summarized. First of all there is the matter of view. This means acknowledging……that the anxiety……however reasonable, is causing you suffering. There’s a...

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When *** changes – then …..

We are always getting ready to live, but never living Ralph Waldo Emerson Filed under: Be fully present Tagged: Acceptance, inspiration, Life, Meditation, Mindfulness

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Gentle holding

It took a long time for the analytical world to look at the importance of the way a baby is held, and yet when you come to think of it, this is of primary importance. The question of holding brings...

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Sunday Quote: The key to a relaxed mind

Anyone who understands impermanence ceases to be contentious. The Dhammapada Filed under: Make the most of life Tagged: impermanence, inspiration, Life, Meditation, Mindfulness, Spirituality

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It’s mid-May: Expecting good weather

A large degree of life happens independent of, and often contrary to, your expectations. At first this may seem dismaying, but as you develop more and more awareness, you eventually start to...

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The bridge

Breath is the bridge that connects life to consciousness, the bridge that unites your body to your thoughts. Whenever your mind becomes scattered, use your breath as the means to take hold of your...

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Step by step

You do not need to know precisely what is happening, or exactly where it is all going. What you need, is to recognize the possibilities and challenges offered by the present moment, and to embrace...

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A simple three part practice

First, come into the present. Flash on what’s happening with you right now. Be fully aware of your body, its energetic quality. Be aware of your thoughts and emotions. Next, feel your heart,...

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Moving beyond concepts

We must not portray you in king’s robes, you drifting mist that brought forth the morning. Once again from the old paintboxes we take the same gold for scepter and crown that has disguised you...

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A way to freedom

The attempt to look at your attitude — what you are feeling and thinking and the frame that holds it – and then your attitude to your attitude, is one of the routes to freedom John Tarrant, In the...

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Not going anywhere in life

I have tried to stress the critical importance of the non-dual aspect of meditation by emphasizing that it is not about getting anywhere else. This of course immediately brings up a lot of...

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Noticing what’s here

People go abroad to wonder at the heights of mountains, the huge waves of the sea, the broad streams of rivers, the vastness of the ocean, the turnings of the stars — and they do not notice...

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Making time for nature

Those who love their own noise are impatient of everything else. They constantly defile the silence of the forests and the mountains and the sea. They bore through silent nature in every direction...

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Being present

Since in order to speak, one must first listen, learn to speak by listening. Rumi Filed under: Be fully present Tagged: Awareness, Be fully present, inspiration, Life, Meditation, Mindfulness

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Collecting the Pieces

The first half of life feeds on projections – this is how the unconscious becomes conscious. If we did not project idealism and love, we might never leave home. However, in the second half of the...

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No need to journey

Sometimes we take quite a journey – physically or mentally or emotionally – when the very love and happiness we want so much can be found by just sitting down. We spend our lives searching for...

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Making time to nourish ourselves

What is balance in a society whose skewing of time has it totally off-balance? What is balance in a culture that has destroyed the night with perpetual light and keeps equipment going twenty-four...

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Sunday Quote: Openness

Let us open our leaves like a flower, and be receptive. John Keats Filed under: Make the most of life Tagged: growth, inspiration, Life, Mindfulness, Spirituality

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Holding it all

What if you are already complete? What if it were possible to hold the whole of it in awareness and allow it to be just as it already is. That would be an incredibly radical act and it would be an...

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An accepting gaze

Being with

Permanance and impermanence

Clear, open space

Speeding up or slowing down

Life is like this

Controlling the weather

Noticing ordinary perfection

Without effort

Seeing through thoughts

The process of working with difficulties

When *** changes – then …..

Gentle holding

Sunday Quote: The key to a relaxed mind

It’s mid-May: Expecting good weather

The bridge

Step by step

A simple three part practice

Moving beyond concepts

A way to freedom

Not going anywhere in life

Noticing what’s here

Making time for nature

Being present

Collecting the Pieces

No need to journey

Making time to nourish ourselves

Sunday Quote: Openness

Holding it all

When concepts get in the way

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