I follow four principles:
Face it,
Accept it,
Deal with it,
Then let it go.
Sheng Yen, 1930 – 2009, Chinese Buddhist monk
Author: Karl Duffy
This is a Mindfulness Practice Blog written in Laois, Ireland, containing reflections on meditation practice, psychological growth, spirituality and wellness which hopefully may encourage and benefit others as they reflect on their lives and seek to develop a more balanced, mindful and conscious approach to it.
Sunday Quote: What we learn..
One learns only one thing,
how to rejoice in life.
Osho
Autumn colour
I want to mention summer ending
without meaning the death of somebody loved
or even the death of the trees.
Today in the market I heard a mother say
Look at the pumpkins, it’s finally autumn!
And the child didn’t think of the death of her mother
which is due before her own but tasted the sound
of the words on her clumsy tongue:
pumpkin; autumn.
Let the eye enlarge with all it beholds.
I want to celebrate color, how one red leaf
flickers like a match held to a dry branch,
and the whole world goes up in orange and gold.
Linda Pastan
Paying attention
Friday…a little more space appears…we can perhaps notice the beauty all around us, in the little things, new colours, some time for ourselves:
I do not think there is anyone who takes quite such a fierce pleasure in things being themselves as I do.
The startling wetness of water excites and intoxicates me; the fieriness of fire, the steeliness of steel,
the unutterable muddiness of mud…
GK Chesterton
Making the most of life
Mindful eating at its best, the poet fully taken by the eating of a peach. It can be the same for us today if we give any moment our full awareness:
O, to take what we love inside,
to carry within us an orchard, to eat
not only the skin, but the shade,
not only the sugar, but the days, to hold
the fruit in our hands, adore it, then bite into
the round jubilance of peach.
There are days we live
as if death were nowhere
in the background; from joy
to joy to joy, from wing to wing,
from blossom to blossom to
impossible blossom, to sweet impossible blossom.
extract, Li-Young Lee, From Blossoms
South Korean Screen painting of the Sun, Moon and Peach Trees
Training in contentment
Peace is the result of retraining your mind
to process life as it is,
rather than you think it should be.
Wayne Dyer
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