Stillness

Sam Harris on meditation.

In this podcast Belgian neurologist and neuroscientist Stephen Laurey interviews Sam Harris about his meditation practice. Meditation… is a way of recognising just how much there is to be grateful for. You haven’t died yet. Your life is right here to be enjoyed, and it can only be enjoyed by you. In this corner of […]

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We are islands. We are trees.

We are like islands in the sea, or like trees in the forest. The maple and the pine may whisper to each other with their leaves. … But the trees also commingle their roots in the darkness underground, and the islands also hang together through the ocean’s bottom. Just so there is a continuum of […]

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Cushion with a view.

This was the frontdrop to my meditation practice this morning. Zazen is not much concerned with the view. Pretty much any undisturbed space will do. But it’s nice to place my mat amongst it all and sit Instagram style every once and awhile. Soft grass. Sand. Surf. The Way is perfect like vast space where […]

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With this.

With this, be this fully; with that, be that fully. When sad, be completely sad; when happy, completely happy. Through and through, become the wave, become the ocean, become the cause and the effect. How can you not be? Guo Gu Passing Through the Gateless Barrier (Shambhala 2016)

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