Tag: Stillness
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Buddha beak
Sitting at dawn. A magpie calldeepens the silence. Most days I am meditating around six-thirty am. At this time our local magpies are warming up to their morning carolling. I usually open the window to welcome in the song. It does not disturb me. Somehow it only serves to enhance the silence of my sitting.…
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Video: Martijn Doolaard.
I have already written about this YouTube channel here, but as it might just be my favourite thing on the internet right now, here we are again. These videos are a master class on meditative storytelling. The use of silence and ambient sound and composition and light…and showing us the story through those dimensions instead…
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Beside a small stream.
The difference betweenBeing lazyAndDoing nothingIs that one isDoing the beingWhilst the other isBeing the doing. I thought of this short poem whilst walking across a small bridge on a side street of Berry. The small stream (top picture) runs right through the town, but if you are not paying attention it is hidden from view.…
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Listen.
Listening opens us to the wonders of communication and creativity. Listening also teaches us that we live in an age of diminishment. Aesthetics—the appreciation and consideration of the perceptions of the senses—should therefore be central guides amid the convulsions of change and injustice that we live within. Yet we are increasingly disconnected from sensory, storied…
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