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- 108ZenBooks
- American Buddhist Perspective
- bookbird
- Cheerio Road
- Dangerous Harvests
- dhamma musings
- Digital Zendo
- Fly Like a Crow
- Full Contact Enlightenment
- Kloncke
- My Buddha is pink
- Notes in Samsara
- Ox Herding
- Point of Contact ~ Subtle Dharma Mouth Punch
- Precious Metal: the blog
- Rev. Danny Fisher
- Somewhere in Dhamma…
- Stumbling along the path
- The Big Old Oak Tree
- The Buddhist Blog
- The Endless Further
- The Jizo Chronicles
- the worst horse
- Wild Fox Zen
- Zen Traveler
- ZenDotStudio
- Zenju Earthlyn Marselean Manuel
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I’m still here…
Been thinking, making sure of things, wriggling down into the earth a bit, trying to find a place to germinate. More later – busy day ahead. Love to you all.
Tagged Blog, Real Life, Thoughts
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Remain Awake in the World – via Dangerous Harvests
Via Dangerous Harvests (Thank you.): It’s all fine and well to imagine being a wandering hermit, being away from it all. But that’s the work of those who are living that. For the rest of us, the world is calling … Continue reading
Tagged Blog, Lay Practice, Quote, Real Life, Simplicity
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This is Me
This is me. Well, not literally – actually it’s my second son and a clam. And some sand and some bay water. But I figure y’all’d get the metaphor. I’ve had an interesting life that got off to an interesting … Continue reading
Tagged Impermanence, Meditation, Real Life, writing
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In Search of Ebullience…
In trying to breath life back into this blog, I had thought to take a lighter tone. Much as I try, though, it’s not easy to take that lighter tone when you don’t feel it. I read such amazing stuff … Continue reading
Tagged Dead Honesty, family, Love, Practice, Real Life
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We are here we are here we are here…
And the elephant smiled. “Do you see what I mean?… They’ve proved they ARE persons, no matter how small. And their whole world was saved by the smallest of All!” I’m here, too. Not so sure there’s a “yopp” in … Continue reading
Tagged Book, Engaged Buddhism, Knowledge, Love, Real Life
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Great Jon Kabat-Zin Quote:
“Your life becomes the meditation practice. It’s not about sitting on a cushion in the lotus position,” he said. “The Buddhist emphasis on enlightenment does not mean there is thunder and lightning and your mind is clarified once and for … Continue reading
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View from the Mud: Redux
Decided to edit this. Via Thubten Chodron: In his Guide to a Bodhisattva’s Way of Life, Shantideva counsels us, “If something can be changed, work to change it. If it cannot, why worry, be upset, and complain?” Keeping the two quotes, … Continue reading
Sitting Back Down
Yesterday was the first time I’ve really Sat in ages. Foolish little girl that I am, when things got really rough — and believe me, they a) got really rough and b) are still pretty rough — I hid away … Continue reading
Tagged Knowledge, Meditation, Practice, Real Life
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It’s Been a While
As always, I’m still about. Just so snowed under by serious RL stuff I am reduced to following my breath and practicing mindfulness as best I can. This is the limit of my practice at the moment. Hopefully I’ll have … Continue reading
Tagged Mindfulness, Practice, Real Life
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