There is a timeless presence that is forever aware. It is not confined to the space between your ears or within your skin. It has always been there, aware of all that your senses perceive, all the thoughts that drift through your mind, aware of all the stories, emotions/sensations that you mind-body experiences. This […]
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There is a false assumption that action that springs from a peaceful, loving, accepting mind is soft, ineffective and weak. That powerful action can only arise from a mind that is fuelled by the energy of anger or injustice. Nothing could be further from the truth. The mind that is at peace is a
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Is it possible that the purpose of story is to help us feel alive, something that we could naturally, spontaneously and effortlessly do as a child but which we quickly got conditioned/storied out of? To connect us with that which we naturally are – joyous, peaceful, limitless, free – alive? But there’s a catch. Story demands
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Generally, unpleasant events cut us off from life and pleasant ones reconnect us with life. I say ‘generally’ because, paradoxically, intensely painful experiences can produce the opposite effects. Image from PxHere For instance, when you are so consumed with rage or hopelessness or fear or helplessness such that you’re almost completely cut off from life, suffocating
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Being honest with yourself is not to judge yourself. But neither is it about making excuses for yourself. Neither of these is useful. Being honest with yourself is simply acknowledging the thoughts you think, the feelings you feel, the beliefs you belief. Not trying to justify, defend, blame, explain or correct. The very act of
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We don’t think we do but we live on the hard edge of our human being in crusted shells that we carry around with our encrusted ideas, beliefs and opinions Yours, sooner or later, colliding with mine neither one prepared to yield until we realise that it is not about yielding Rather it is
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Wanting happiness and knowing how to be happy are two different things. I want to play the guitar like Eric Clapton. I don’t know how to. But if I want it enough, I’ll learn how. It may take me a lifetime and I will probably need lots of help. Happiness is no different. If we
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Learn to meet the world peacefully, just as it is, Not as you insist it is. Paradoxically, this is how change happens. Last night, in our Mindfulness circle, there were a number of fresh insights. I say ‘fresh’ because these are insights that build on previous insights that people have had. Let me recount a
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Have you noticed… Most of our imagination is engaged in… lamenting something of the past wishing that something of the past was still here dreading something in the future…? In comparison, only a very small part of our imagination is directed into imagining an amazing future. The first happens so effortlessly, so automatically because we
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It was riveting. It felt so real, visceral, vivid…all the people and places in the dream felt very real…my emotions in it certainly felt real, right there in my body…my thoughts were just as they happen in walking life (I’ll explain later why I call it ‘walking’ life)…In fact, when I awoke, I wanted to
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