“”No matter how many years you sit doing zazen, you will never become anything special.”” — ‘Homeless’ Kodo Sawaki
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Dog & dinner.
Good afternoon.
““You never truly need what you want. That is the main and thoroughgoing key to serenity.”” — Albert Ellis
Contemplation runs through all of life.
Good morning.
During meditation this evening there was a noticing that all sights, sounds, sensations and thoughts were inextricably interwoven into the fabric of awareness equally and...
Good afternoon.
I don’t know anything about tech but this made me smile Justfuckingusehtml
There seems to be two distinct kinds of so-called ‘spiritual’ activity one can engage in. On the one hand there is a search and a...
This month’s cult cinema club is showing Pedro Almodovar’s Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown tonight. I haven’t seen it since it first...
Not being bullied
At school I was a prime target for bullies. To avoid the inevitable I somehow managed to develop a way of evading them. I became...
Good morning.
“"Before I studied Zen, mountains were mountains and rivers were rivers. When I had studied Zen for some time, mountains were no longer mountains and...
Where are you?
Where do you think 'you' are? More specifically, where is your sense of self located when you think or say 'I', 'me', or 'my'. What...
‘TIL THE END
I’m not going to get carried away by my team, Sunderland AFC, making it to the playoff final at Wembley next Saturday. They face a...
Who’s that?
Spent the day battling the garden and have the bramble scars to show for it! Exhausted but glad to have kept the effulgence at bay....
““I have been filled with hopes, fears, despairs, longings, happiness. Expansive moments, contracting moments. All of these fluctuations have at one stage been called 'me.'”...
The Assembly
Originally a one off on the BBC but now a series on ITV, The Assembly is currently my favourite TV show and the best thing...
