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Spirituality is dead: how being ordinary saved my life (and other Mindfulness tales).
Rabbit said something interesting to Eeyore in “Return to the Hundred Acre Wood”, by David Benedictus. He said that “Happy is all very well Eeyore, but it doesn’t butter any Parsnips!” Eeyore’s response? “Then leave them unbuttered.” For me, spirituality is dead, because it might butter your Parsnips, but it doesn’t lead to happiness.
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Turning Pain into Potential: Mindfulness at Toogoolawa
Recently, I caught up with Rebecca Fraser from Toogoolawa school to find out about them, and about how they use mindfulness as a part of their curriculum. This is what she told me…
Tell us about Toogoolawa
Toogoolawa Schools were established in Australia in 1998 and operate as a provider of alternate educational opportunities for boys [...]
Meditation should be simple: here it is in 355 words.
How to meditate for busy people. No filler, no fluff. Here we go.
Key Skill #1 – Learning to observe your thoughts
As you read this, stop for a moment and notice the thoughts passing through your mind right now. Are they words, images, sounds or a combination of all three? Watch your thoughts come and go [...]
How the Dalai Lama Changed my Life.
Sometimes you don’t recognise change as it’s happening, but when you look back, you hardly recognise who you used to be. In Zen they say that “When you walk in the mist, you don’t know you’re getting wet,” and when I think about my journey over the past ten years, I certainly got drenched. Allow [...]
Trauma and Meditation
From the Huffington Post:
Many children who run away from violence and abuse at home end up living on the streets. In the U.S., over 300,000 such children are involved in sex trafficking. For some of the lucky ones who have been rescued, in this country and abroad, meditation is a vital part of their healing [...]
Beginner’s Mind
“In the beginner’s mind there are many possibilities, but in the expert’s mind there are few.”¹
You may have read this quote from Zen Master Shunryu Suzuki before. I myself have seen it many times as an inspirational quote or as part of training material, but what does it mean? What is beginner’s mind and how [...]
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