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Tallu Schuyer Quinn
Book Bits

Normal Days – A Tribute to the Ordinary From the Far Edge of Life

May 3, 2022May 2, 2022 Vanessa Able

After a glioblastoma diagnosis, Tallu Schuyler Quinn wrote about what dying meant to her body, mind and heart in this series of moving essays.

Tagged awareness, Death, Dying, glioblastoma, Gratitude, normal, ordinary, perspectiveLeave a comment
Featured Poetry

Suzanne Eaton – windchimes

February 27, 2022February 21, 2022 Nicholas Trandahl

Suzanne Eaton's windchimes is a meditative discourse on wind and sound, and the tranquility and openness manifested by the simple act of stillness.

Tagged awareness, Gratitude, Meditation, nature, peace, Poem, poet, Poetry, Quiet, Stillness, Tranquility, wind, Zen1 Comment
Featured Poetry

Pamela Denyes – The Fog of October

October 24, 2021October 28, 2021 Nicholas Trandahl

The Fog of October is Pamela Denyes' call to the wild, an invitation to look beneath the surface of the mundane--to the mysticism beyond the veil.

Tagged autumn, awareness, change, growth, mystic, mysticism, nature, nature writing, path, Poem, Poetry, wild, wildnessLeave a comment
Buddha Sabbasava Sutta
Sutra Excerpts, The Masters

The Full Awareness of Breathing

September 6, 2021September 11, 2021 Vanessa Able

In the Anapanasati Sutta, the Buddha presents a visceral kind of practice with the breath, that illuminates the experience of joy, calm and impermanence.

Tagged awareness, Breathing meditation, Buddha, Buddhism, calm, Joy, liberation, Meditation, presence, sutta, UnderstandingLeave a comment
Thich Nhat Hanh
Book Bits

Buddha On The Phone, Buddha Watching TV

February 15, 2021February 15, 2021 Vanessa Able

Thich Nhat Hanh offers advice on being our best selves on the phone, when watching TV and even when simply flipping a light switch.

Tagged activity, awareness, chanting, daily life, gathas, mindfulness, mundane, wonderLeave a comment
Alexandra Horowitz
Book Bits

What is Attention?

October 2, 2020October 2, 2020 Vanessa Able

Alexandra Horowitz asks, what does it really mean to pay attention? Is it beneficial? And how can we be better at it?

Tagged attention, awareness, consciousness, everyday, noticing, observation, walking2 Comments
Theodore Roethke
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Theodore Roethke – The Waking

July 22, 2020July 22, 2020 Vanessa Able

Theodore Roethke was an intensely introspective poet whose work has been hailed by critics as some of the finest American poetry from the last century.

Tagged Awakening, awareness, fate, Fear, learning, Poetry, wakingLeave a comment
Clifford Venho
Featured, Featured Poetry

Clifford Venho – Forest of the Unsung

July 5, 2020July 5, 2020 Vanessa Able

Clifford Venho's Forest of the Unsung, marks the magical transition in a rich and dark forest setting from night into a day that is like 'a book waiting to be read.' 

Tagged awareness, dawn, forest, music, night, transcendence, transitionLeave a comment
Ajahn Sumedho
Book Bits

Start Where You Are: Ajahn Sumedho

April 6, 2020April 17, 2020 Vanessa Able

"Whatever way you are feeling now, whether you like it or not, whether it is inspired or depressed, right or wrong, sane or crazy, it is what it is in this moment."

Tagged awareness, sati, Silence, Suchness, tatha, Thai Forest TraditionLeave a comment
Alan Watts
Book Bits

What Have You Left Out? Alan Watts on the Limits of Perception

March 30, 2020March 30, 2020 Vanessa Able

Alan Watts often said that in order to come to your senses, you have to get out of your mind. Watts was emphatic about self-realization and breaking through cultural and psychic barriers in order to live as a fully-fledged, fearless human being.

Tagged Alan Watts, awareness, consciousness, perception, selectivity, Zen1 Comment

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