It‘s a lifetime‘s journey to relate honestly to the immediacy of our experience and to respect ourselves enough not to judge it.
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It‘s a lifetime‘s journey to relate honestly to the immediacy of our experience and to respect ourselves enough not to judge it.
*Not the tagged book* Making Friends with Your Mind: The Key to Contentment, recorded from live retreat sessions, features Pema Chodron‘s gentle, humorous, and down-to-earth teachings on meditation and mindfulness. She guides participants to cease battling their thoughts, embrace the mind‘s inherent drama and cultivate unconditional friendliness towards themselves.
Full Review abookandadog.com/blog/making-friends-with-your-mind
We don‘t sit in meditation to become good meditators. We sit in meditation so that we‘ll be more awake in our lives.
#5JoysFriday @DebinHawaii @Kshakal
1. Successful holiday all around
2. Both kids under our roof for a sleepover
3. Fun bookmark from @JenReadsAlot
4. Kevin slow blinking
5. Leo
*Not the tagged book* Embracing the Unknown, a short audiobook featuring Pema Chödrön, explores how awareness of death can help people live more fully and courageously in the present. She delves into topics like the bardo (transitional states), rebirth as a moment-to-moment process, and practical ways to manage fear, grief, and uncertainty in everyday life.
Full Review abookandadog.com/blog/embracing-the-unknown
"Books contain dead teaching."
"Worship requires that there be something which is bigger, higher, or beyond ourselves."
"The whole world is you."
"This whole practice requires faith."
"What you do with your mind also creates karma."
"It's real chanting that makes no sound and in really listening to it, there is no hearing."
"What you do and what happens to you are the same thing."
"He handles that cabbage leaf as if it were his child."
so-soIt wasn't a large investment. 73 pages + liturgy + appendix. And it yielded some wisdom. I was just expecting something as groundbreaking as Br. Lawrence's "Practice of the Presence of God". Although this has chapters on Life, Cooking, and Eating, it's masked by Buddhist terminology. It is a Buddhist book and I am not. The 73 pages of teaching didn't prepare me for the 17 pages of liturgy. The Short Meal Gatha will be spoken. I just expected more.
❤️ I got to visit with my niece (and sister and bro-in-law) this week! (Sorry for the sticker on her face, but #notmybaby)
🤎 Family hike at Al Quaal
🧡 A visit to Lakenenland, our local sculpture park (https://lakenenland.com/)
💛 Local book haul
💚 MisterInBlue and the Familiars
#5joysfriday @DebinHawaii
#5JoysFriday:
1. My sister & niece visiting
2. My sweet grand-niece hanging out with my dad and showing off how she can count to ten
3. This amazing granola I made: https://www.seriouseats.com/eleven-madison-park-granola-salty-recipe
4. Listening to this pre-release album: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/andrewpeterson/andrew-peterson-presents-the...
5. Beauty from Veronica in the Fens and autumn vibes from Frog & Toad
#5JoysFriday @DebinHawaii
I look forward to looking back each Friday and seeing others‘ joy popping up here. ❤️🥰
1. Lots of walks despite the heat
2. Kevin
3. Making solstice flower wreaths and attending a sound bath and meditation with a friend - silly fun
4. A purple cone flower I replanted from my mom‘s garden has returned! 💪🏻
5. Strawberry Spoon Cake from NYT easy & delicious!!
Tagging @JenReadsAlot @Kshakal @dabbe
