How to work with grasping
How to work with grasping - in the moment Whilst theory can be helpful, the beauty of these teachings is that they are meant to be...
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Lucy Chan
- 6 days ago
- 2 min
When your comfort zone becomes a prison
Dear friends, There’s uplift in my heart as I write to you, it has been a while! I’ve returned from a period of personal retreat where...
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Lucy Chan
- Sep 3
- 1 min
Quote by Tara Brach
One of the great teachings in spiritual life is this: It doesn’t matter what is happening. What matters is how we respond. How we...
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Ethan Pollock
- Aug 13
- 1 min
The Summers Day by Mary Oliver
Who made the world? Who made the swan, and the black bear? Who made the grasshopper? This grasshopper, I mean — the one who has flung...
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Ethan Pollock
- Aug 10
- 1 min
How to turn greyscale mode on your phone
One way to support less phone use is using a grayscale filter to eliminate the visual attraction of colors. The brain is naturally drawn...
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Lucy Chan
- Aug 2
- 1 min
How to Meet Shame with Compassion
Based on the teachings of Chris Germer (founder of the Mindful Self-Compassion programme): 3 key paradoxes that we understand when we...
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Ethan Pollock
- Jul 16
- 1 min
Jealous of a Pond by Rabia of Basra (c. 717-801)
When God said, "My hands are yours," I saw that I could heal any creature in this world; I saw that the divine beauty in each heart is...
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Lucy Chan
- Apr 16
- 1 min
Quote by Alice Walker
"Some periods of our growth are so confusing that we don’t even recognize that growth is what is happening. We may feel hostile or angry...
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Ethan Pollock
- Apr 2
- 2 min
Please Call me by my True Names- Thich Nhat Hanh
Don’t say that I will depart tomorrow— even today I am still arriving. Look deeply: every second I am arriving to be a bud on a Spring...
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Lucy Chan
- Mar 26
- 1 min
Quote by Pema Chodron
The peace that we are looking for is not peace that crumbles as soon as there is difficulty or chaos. Whether we’re seeking inner peace...
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Lucy Chan
- Feb 6
- 1 min
Quote on inner listening by Kaira Jewel Lingo
"This listening to ourselves is what we want to be doing everyday – how am I doing, what's happening in my mind, my body, my feelings....
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Ethan Pollock
- Jan 25
- 1 min
Li Bai (701-762)
You ask why I make my home in the mountain forest, and I smile, and am silent, and even my soul remains quiet: it lives in the other...
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Ethan Pollock
- Jan 9
- 1 min
Keizan Jokin
Though we find clear waters ranging to the vast blue sky of autumn, how can that compare with the hazy moon on a spring night? Some...
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Lucy Chan
- Dec 19, 2023
- 4 min
The Five Mindfulness Trainings (Plum Village tradition)
The Five Mindfulness Trainings The Five Mindfulness Trainings represent the Buddhist vision for a global spirituality and ethic. They are...
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Ethan Pollock
- Dec 7, 2023
- 1 min
Watching The Moon by Izumi Shikibu
Watching the moon at midnight, solitary, mid-sky, I knew myself completely, no part left out. by Izumi Shikibu (Original Language...
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Ethan Pollock
- Nov 14, 2023
- 1 min
A Great Need by Hafiz
Out Of a great need We are all holding hands And climbing. Not loving is a letting go. Listen, The terrain around here Is Far too...
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Georgie
- Nov 1, 2023
- 2 min
Buddhist origins of Mindfulness: Bridging Tradition and Accessibility
In the evolution of mindfulness, the fusion of ancient Buddhist roots with a contemporary approach has been a transformative journey....
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Ethan Pollock
- Oct 12, 2023
- 1 min
'Saint Francis and the Sow' By Galway Kinnell
The bud stands for all things, even for those things that don’t flower, for everything flowers, from within, of self-blessing; though...
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Ethan Pollock
- Sep 28, 2023
- 1 min
'Don’t meditate to fix yourself' quote by Bob Sharples
Don’t meditate to fix yourself, to heal yourself, to improve yourself, to redeem yourself, rather do it as an act of love of deep warm...
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Lucy Chan
- Sep 28, 2023
- 1 min
Wayfarer, there is no path by Antonio Machado
Wayfarer, there is no path by Antonio Machado (translated by Ramiro Ortega) Wayfarer, your footprints are the only road; nothing else....
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