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Way-Seeking Mind

Sunset Meditation

November 8, 2021November 8, 2021 Vanessa Able

BY JOHN BRANTINGHAM Sunset comes late in High Sierra Summers, and by the time it does, I’m usually done for the day.

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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
Anne Lamott
Book Bits

The Ecstasy of Paying Attention

December 11, 2020December 11, 2020 Vanessa Able

When we are looking, says Anne Lamott, really actively observing, then we are overriding our tendency towards interpreting and distorting the objects of our perception.

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Way-Seeking Mind

The Fly Antecedent

October 1, 2020September 30, 2020 Vanessa Able

BY PATRICK BURR After climbing to the top of Bulamsan, a small peak in northeastern Seoul, I sat on a boulder and stared out from among the trees at the ivory city below the smog. 

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Hakuin
Japanese Texts, Teaching Poem, Texts

Hakuin’s Song of Zazen

August 23, 2020August 24, 2020 Vanessa Able

Hakuin's Song of Zazen is an encapsulation of the merits of meditation, in which he encourages the student to focus on the immediate experience of presence.

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Tara Brach
Book Bits

Staying With the ‘Ouch’ – Tara Brach

April 20, 2020April 20, 2020 Vanessa Able

Why is self-acceptance so hard and self-criticism so deeply wired in us? Psychologist and teacher of meditation Tara Brach reminds us that self-love is one of the most neglected areas of our psychic landscapes.

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- BOOK BITS -

  • Tallu Schuyer Quinn
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  • John O Donohue
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    Ancient Celtic tradition upheld soul-friendships and the potential for inner growth that they teased out.
  • Thich Nhat Hanh
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    Rather than signifying a lack or a void, Thich Nhat Hanh took emptiness to be a state of inextricable and fundamental interconnectedness.
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- POETRY-

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  • Patrice Bavos – Sedona Prayer
    New Jersey poet Patrice Bavos offers a gracious praise poem of a spiritual place with her lovely "Sedona Prayer".
  • Eloise Klein Healy – Iris
    Eloise Klein Healy, former Poet Laureate of Los Angeles, has encapsulated so much in the two short stanzas of her poem "Iris".
  • Kurtis Ebeling – Snowmelt
    With the quietude of the rising sun and melting snow, Kurtis Ebeling's "Snowmelt" serves as an ode to springtime and a requiem to winter.
  • Mark Hammerschick – Permafrostedness Rising
    "Permafrostedness Rising" is a tragic poem written from the perspective of native arctic people, detailing a world altered by climate change.
 

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