It has really struck me over the weekend how much the continuity of meditation is facilitated by a daily practice. For many years when I started on the Dharmic path, I was fiercely concerned that I should meditate every day, following my teachers advice. Like many things in those days, there was a sense of […]
There are some beautiful changes in my meditation at present which I thought I’d share. A month or so ago I switched to doing my daily meditation out in the open again, having spent much of the last 6 months meditating indoors. It’s been such a joy to meditate under the open sky, regardless of
The Blessings of Meditation Read Post »
I will wait. Waiting in the face of the unpleasant, the difficult, the challenging. Waiting in the face of uncertainty, confusion and disorientation. Patience – bearing with that which is hard to bear. Allowing things to be, however they are. Not trying to grasp it and force it to be other. Allowing a young plant
Some reflections on Compassion, judging the correctness of actions, and Wisdom – in response to a discussion on a Buddhist list about a particular collective action that had taken place there. I’ve been reflecting quite a lot the last few days on these discussions on the list. Two themes which seem to have recurred in
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Mahamudra meditation instruction is often presented in terms of two-fold advice – the common, and the uncommon. These could be said to be the general and the detailed or specific instructions. The common or general instructions seem intended to be the base or background upon which all the uncommon or detailed instructions build. For me
Reflections on Tilopa – Mahamudra Pith Instructions Read Post »
How is it that we always think that Peace is to be found by somehow arranging things in a certain way? If we could get things like this or that, and certain things could be put into place, then we’d be at peace? We so often get caught up in thinking that in order to
Peace and Letting Go Read Post »
Following on from this post on Exorcism, Psychiatric Treatment and Spiritual Practice. In response to the statement that: Yes, of course i exist. I am made up of molecules. And blood flows through my veins. When you say ‘of course’ .. why is that? … What do the teachings say about this? What do the
Exorcism, Existing, Letting Go and Peace Read Post »
