the chaotic hum
What is an individual? Just a bit of life shot off from the one Life in the universe — just a bit of love and truth dropped on this globe, just as the globe itself was once a bit of light and heat...
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There is a quality to the witnessing of our suffering that is different from suppression or repression. This witnessing is an essential part of meditation, an attentive and compassionate awareness....
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The inner witness is able to notice whatever feeling is arising and can also be curious about it. What is this about for me? Why am I experiencing this now? What does the inner landscape of this...
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While it is easy to be intimidated by the largeness of life, seduced by lethargy, diverted by popular culture, and assimilated into collective fantasies that have little to do with our soul’s agenda,...
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“One must know what one wants to be,” the eighteenth-century French mathematician Émilie du Châtelet wrote in weighing the nature of genius. “In the latter endeavors irresolution produces false...
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We resist change. We fear the unknown. But everything is changing all the time- the waves, the clouds, and us. If we are quiet and still in the moment, we can witness change and accept it as...
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The inner witness is able to notice whatever feeling is arising and can also be curious about it. What is this about for me? Why am I experiencing this now? What does the inner landscape of this...
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When some sort of healing is longed for and remains a possibility, however remote it might seem, a willingness to reclaim the body from the oblivion of taken-for-grantedness or from narcissistic...
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The perfume of sandalwood, rosebay, or jasmine cannot travel against the wind. But the fragrance of virtue travels to the ends of the world. ~The Dhammapada who are you when you sing the body into...
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Nature is such a source of solace for many of us. Imagine a place right now where you have gone to rest in the grace of the world and experienced freedom and the peace of wild things. Breathe in the...
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