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Ursula K LeGuin
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Ursula K. Le Guin – Kinship

March 26, 2022March 25, 2022 Vanessa Able

The mystical teachings of trees are beautifully expressed in Ursula K. Le Guin's poem, Kinship, in which she explores our own primal origins.

Tagged being, forest, interbeing, life, nature, Poetry, TreesLeave a comment
Joan Didion
Book Bits

The Courage of Our Mistakes – Joan Didion on Self-Respect and Moral Nerve

December 23, 2021December 23, 2021 Vanessa Able

In this excerpt from a 1961 essay titled On Self-Respect, Didion argued for a morally robust state of being and looked back a generation to a value that was once called 'character'.

Tagged being, character, discipline, Essay, self-respect, value, VirtueLeave a comment
Silent Illumination
Book Bits, Book of the Month

Guo Gu’s Guide to Silent Illumination

August 2, 2021August 8, 2021 Vanessa Able

The core of Chan meditation is the concrete experience of being in the present moment, not holding on to any mental concept or idea about oneself or one's activity

Tagged attachment, being, Chan, Chinese Zen, embodiment, Meditation, self-consciousness, Silent Illumination, sitting, windows1 Comment
Eihei Dogen
Book Bits, The Masters, Zen

Dogen’s Seal of the Ocean: How Meditation and Life Can Flow Like Water

July 6, 2021August 13, 2021 Vanessa Able

Japanese Zen Master Eihei Dogen invokes an oceanic state of non-identification as something that expresses the true Dharma, or our true nature, according to the teachings of Buddha.

Tagged authenticity, being, Buddha, depth, Meditation, ocean, oceanic, sea, seal, Shobogenzo, Source, Water, Zen1 Comment
Nan Shepherd
Book Bits

Out Of the Body and Into the Mountain: Nan Shepherd’s Journeys Among the Scottish Cairngorms

June 29, 2021June 28, 2021 Vanessa Able

Published thirty years after it was written, Nan Shepherd's nature memoir describes a very physical intimacy that grew and developed through the author's exploration of the Cairngorm Mountains.

Tagged being, Body, Cairngorm, ecology, landscape, memoir, mountains, nature, nature writing, pilgrimage, Scotland2 Comments
Thich Nhat Hanh
Book Bits

Anger Is Me and I Am Anger

April 26, 2021April 26, 2021 Vanessa Able

Zen Master Thich Nhat Hanh on how we can become intimate and compassionate with our own anger and even transform it into love.

Tagged anger, being, love, Meditation, peace, Zen2 Comments
Elizabeth Bishop
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Elizabeth Bishop – In the Waiting Room

February 17, 2021February 17, 2021 Vanessa Able

A formidable description of epiphany: when the poet's world goes from a mundane waiting room to a radically altered sense of identity.

Tagged being, epiphany, illumination, language, Poetry, revelationLeave a comment
Mockingbird
Way-Seeking Mind

Hey, Mockingbird

February 16, 2021February 16, 2021 Vanessa Able

BY ABIGAIL KING This is how it began: mornings, sitting outside on a stone bench, listening to the mockingbird. You exist. I exist.

Tagged being, epiphany, illumination, interbeing, Interconnectedness, mockingbird, revelation4 Comments
Nisargadatta Maharaj
Book Bits

“The Total Functioning is You, The Consciousness is You”

February 8, 2021February 8, 2021 Vanessa Able

Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj talks about identifying with the 'I Am' that is the universal consciousness and not the individual body.

Tagged Advaita Vedanta, being, Body, breath, consciousness, non-duality, PracticeLeave a comment
Buddha
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Avoiding Extremes: Buddha’s Discourse on the Middle Way

November 2, 2020November 2, 2020 Vanessa Able

Buddhist thinking about existence and non-existence is characterised by a re-framing of the parameters of the question, to be or not to be?

Tagged attachment, balance, being, Buddha, buddhist philosophy, discourse, extremes, Kacchayana, Middle Way, non-being, perception, Sutra, Sutras, views1 Comment

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