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I took a first step on the path towards undertaking Jukai today. Jukai is a ceremony in Zen Buddhist practice where you commit yourself to the sixteen precepts. The process is a not a short one, nor one that is anticipated as coming to an end. For the next six months I’ll be working through [...] art by Luke Brown The Dakini Speaks My friends, let’s grow up. Let’s stop pretending we don’t know the deal here. Or if we truly haven’t noticed, let’s wake up and notice. Look: Everything that can be lost, will be lost. It’s simple – how could we have missed it for so long? Let’s [...] "Expansion" – Paige Bradley
Sculpter Paige Bradley describes the process of making this beautiful piece as one of letting go: “I took a perfectly good wax sculpture – a piece I had sculpted with precision over several months – an image of a woman meditating in the lotus position, [...] I stumbled upon audio of singer Lhasa De Sela explaining the story behind her song ‘Soon this space will be too small’. It was so perfect. So beautiful. It felt so absolutely true. And it was so unexpected – as if while I was walking down the hall, God appeared before me – that [...] Give me a candle of spirit As I go down deep into the core of my being Show me the hidden things The creatures of my dreams The storehouse of my forgotten memories and hurts … Take me down to the spring of my life And tell me of my nature And my name. Give [...] Be completely empty. Be perfectly serene. The ten thousand things arise together; in their arising is their return. Now they flower, and flowering sink homeward, returning to the root. The return to the root is peace. Peace: to accept what must be, to know what endures. In that knowledge is wisdom. Without it, ruin, [...] My last post was about walking, so it is probably not so surprising that I have been remembering my experience on the Dharma Yatra in southern France. It’s a silent group walk through the countryside with Dharma teachings at night and the focus on walking mediation “in the beauty and simplicity of Nature, being together [...] I found the blog post below in my email drafts. I have no idea why I didn’t post it at the time, twelve months ago, but its sentiments are deeply consonant with the current events of my life. As I was walking home through the park one afternoon last week I became aware of myself [...] Two things have really inspired me to work on my intentions for 2011. The first is being in a relationship where we are trying to consciously build a mature crucible of relationship together that is a reflection of integral living, or self actualisation-in-togetherness. To do this we’re in a process of examining each aspect of [...] |
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