I do not have to see the tree to feel as if a part of its roots, or to feel the salted water caress my soul to know the essence of the deepest ocean. I do not have to fly like a butterfly to understand the movement of the wind upon my being, I do […]
Pretending isn’t in our nature
We see the truth through it all
Money and hatred
“Control”
Bordering people; the masses
In the truths we see is also the blindness
Blindness in pretenders
The control that we can’t grasp
We’re not going to pretend now
Are we?
-Nina
I found this image on Facebook a long time ago and while clearing out my photo files thought it would be a lovely share. This time I saw it in a new light though, as often happens when time and distance creates an almost back burner effect, set aside to warm and brought to the […]
All forms of cruelty and exploitation are blatant manifestations of self-cherishing, and strengthen our dualistic wrong view of separation, the perceived antagonism between self and other. Callous disregard for the life and well-being of other sentient beings prevents spiritual progress, because it is based on the assumption that we are somehow more important, and our […]
Journal exercise: What does self-care and self-compassion mean to you? How are they different? How are they the same? — Inspired by conversations of late, I am intrigued by the differences between SELF-CARE and SELF-COMPASSION. — — In health care, self care is any necessary human regulatory function which is under individual control, deliberate and self-initiated. […]
via Journal exercise: self-care and self-compassion — Katarina Thorsen
Someone asked Buddha, “How shall we meditate?”
Buddha replied, “Whatsoever you do, do it with awareness; this is meditation. Walking, walk attentively, as if walking is everything; eating, eat with awareness, as if eating is everything; rising, rise with awareness; sitting, sit with awareness. All your actions become conscious, your mind does not travel beyond this moment, it remains in the moment, settles in the moment – this is meditation.”
What many of my students struggle with is clearing their minds for meditation
– we have tens of thousands of thoughts every single day after all.
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