It’s been a while since I last posted about mindfulness. But some of you might remember me having a few gurus: Jon Kabat-Zinn: for his down-to-earth practical approach to emotional life. (“As long as you’re still breathing, there is more right than wrong with you, no matter how ill or how hopeless you may feel.”)…
Tag: Pema Chödrön
aspiring to an original creative act
For some time I have been reading and listening to the teachings of Buddhist nun Pema Chödrön, finding her wise words both challenging and instructive. Together with Jack Kornfield, Chdrön has been my main pathfinder into the world of buddhism. Last week I listened to Chödrön’s teachings on the Bodhisattva Mind, where she praises Stephen Batchelor’s…
This is why Buddhists differentiate between Right Mindfulness (samma sati) and Wrong Mindfulness (miccha sati):
In modern business institutions stress is framed as a personal problem, and mindfulness is offered as just the right medicine to help employees work more efficiently and calmly within toxic environments. – Purser & Loy I have been studying Mindfulness and practicing meditation for a few years. For a short while I also participated in…
Becoming intimate with fear
—Philosophy ought really to be written only as a form of poetry. (Philosophie dürfte man eigentlich nur dichten.) Ludwig Wittgenstein, Culture and Value * Maggie Nelson: I’ve often written about things that terrify me—likely out of compulsion more than hope for comfort, or catharsis; as Peter Handke says near the end of his horrified memoir of his mother’s suicide, A Sorrow Beyond Dreams,…
(creative?!???) MESS, or: a state of confusion and disorderliness
I’ve started working on a short essay on Maggie Nelson’s Bluets. the book keeps popping up in my imagination, so I’ve decided to try to write myself through my fascination. As for now I haven’t got any written stuff to show you, but this is what my desk looks like at the moment: in comparison…
to be with what is
Pain is not a punishment; pleasure is not a reward. – Pema Chödrön In response to my last post Harold said: A literal view of the particular kind of equanimity mentioned above leaves it open for the continued destruction of the earth, and thus ourselves. Its an important and interesting objection, and a problem discussed in different…
Pema Chödrön says:
– You are the sky. Everything else – it’s just the weather… . .
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