“I stroll along the stream up to where it ends. I sit down watching the clouds as they begin to rise. Wang Wei”
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2024
“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...
