Recently on my Facebook feed, one of those beautifully scripted nuggets of prophetic wisdom came through and caught my attention: Practice the Pause Oh, the pause… the pause has helped me out in so many instances. I don’t always remember the pause, but when I do I am grateful for it. So, what is this…
It’s that time of year again, the landscape is slowly turning, colours are changing and there is a chill in the air most mornings that sometimes lasts all day. The last cling of Summer is slowly giving way to a season of quiet rest. And it is in this transitional time of Autumn where we…
Recently, at one of our Live Online Teachings, one of the participants used the word ‘surrender’ and asked where does this lie within the practice of resting in awareness. I remember being immediately struck by the question as it had come up time and time again for myself in my own practice. We spoke about…
I am not sure exactly how they measure these things, but popular belief is that in any given day we have between 60 000- 70 000 thoughts (Salla, 2000; Trieschmann, 2001; Williams 2014). That is a lot of thought energy flowing in and out, enticing us to engage, to move away from what is actually…
The Zen Buddhist monk Thich Nhat Hanh often speaks of “watering the good seeds” that lie within all of us. He explains that there are all sorts of seeds: some may be positive, such as seeds of compassion, happiness, love; while other seeds may be negative, such as seeds of greed, anger and intolerance. Each…
Often times, when practicing a guided sitting meditation, you may hear the invitation to adopt a posture that reflects a sense of dignity, or a sense of purpose. Jon Kabat Zinn refers to this as “’taking a stand’, even though you are sitting”. He explains that “there is a strong sense of honouring place, placement…
Often, the mood that we wake up with has the capacity to set the tone for the day. It can almost act like an unconscious intention: a direction set and followed. Indeed, when I’ve been in ill humour, I’ve often been asked ‘Who put salt in your corn flakes this morning?’ or heard the phrase…
Just like life, our meditation practice can be quite cyclical. At times we may feel that our sitting sessions are frequent, our minds are settled and feelings of gratitude are around every corner. Whereas at other times, it might feel like months go by between each visit to the cushion and when we get there,…
Rob Nairn uses the term ‘hidden reefs’ when discussing some of the obstacles that we can stumble upon while meditating. In particular, he speaks about the subtle (and sometimes not so subtle) thought pattern of expectation. In my late teens, I can remember my mother getting upset with me, time and time again, when I…
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