Tag: meditation
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Back from Sesshin
I have just returned from a week long intensive meditation retreat or sesshin at Kodoji Zendo. It was one of the most difficult and rewarding things I have done.
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Untethered.
I’m about to head into Sesshin ( a meditation retreat) for the next 7 days. So I will be untethered, uncontactable and off-grid for that time. This seems like a good time to disconnect myself from a few other things too. I have taken breaks from using Facebook in the past and have been thinking…
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Don’t be helpful.
“Don’t be helpful; be available.”–Robert Fripp (King Crimson guitarist and meditation practitioner) Sage advice. So often we are far too busy proffering advice and concocting opinion to just open a space, offer our presence, and gift our ear. When others need our help the trap is to make it all about us.
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Turning moments.
I recently came across this eloquent post from John Tarrant a meditation teacher who was born in Tasmania: “The first thing about really having your own creative life is not thinking you know what you are, not thinking what you are already thinking. This comes from making space, from not knowing, from playing. We are…
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