Tag: Awareness

Not seeing

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As I was driving the other day in Kildare I noticed silhouettes of bare trees on the hill tops and it remanded me of this quote. We do not always see the full story of what is happening in our lives. We have to hold a space for not-knowing, for allowing things to develop at their own pace.

I prefer winter ……when you feel the bone structure of the landscape – the loneliness of it, the dead feeling of winter.

Something waits beneath it, the whole story doesn’t show.

Andrew Wyatt,  American Painter

The basic contact

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The moment at which a feeling of pleasure or pain begins to turn into a disturbing emotion is the point at which meditative awareness can be most effective. Before we describe or explain feelings to ourselves,  how do they feel? What do we actually experience before we name them and are caught by them? Meditative awareness helps us to know and come into contact with that basic aspect of our experience of feeling.

Martine Bachelor

Not living in our stories

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Every particle of creation sings its own song of what is and what is not.

Hearing what is can make you wise.

Hearing what is not can drive you mad

Ghalib, Persian Poet, 1797 –  1869

From a distance

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Love means to look at yourself  the way one looks at distant things

For you are only one thing among many.

And whoever sees that way heals his heart, without knowing it,  from various ills – 

A bird and a tree say to him: Friend

Czesław Miłosz, Polish poet

Something to practice with today

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What in this moment
Is lacking?

Rinzai.

The secret

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sheep herding2Joy is

being willing for things to be

as they are

Charlotte Joko Beck, Nothing Special