Tag: mindfulness
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Be prepared. For the unpreparable.
So two nights ago I watched the movie House Full of Dynamite. It looked at the response (at both a human and military level) to a single nuclear missile attack on America. It was a good movie. Chilling, but good. And it got me thinking.
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The wild awake.
A suggested reading pause for today. Like a sesshin with backpacks, the pilgrimage was enough like a retreat that some familiar obstacles rose up for me: comparing mind, grumpy fatigue, sharp self-judgment. But these rarely stuck around for too long, as there were so many other forces ready to bowl them over. Powerful if diaphanous…
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The window.
The spiritual path is like spending a lifetime scrubbing a window. Just when you think it’s finally clean, you can’t help but notice there’s still a smudge on the glass.Year after year, you scrub the window, until you realise the smudge you’re trying to remove is the reflection of the one cleaning it.At this point,…
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