POETRY FOR MINDFULNESS AND COMPASSION

Poetry for Mindfulness and Compassion Weekend

Poetry can reach within us and remind us of our potential to awaken. Mindfulness can clear a space to enable us to receive and digest the wisdom in a poem and poetry has a special power to reach the heart. What a marvellous combination! Receiving poetry into our meditation practice may offer comfort, open the…

OCTOBER ONLINE PRACTICE DAY

October Online Practice Day- Soul Food

October Online Practice Day – Soul Food Saturday 8th October 2022 from 10am – 4pm  with Fay Adams   This practice day will be an opportunity to rest and replenish. We will spend time reflecting on what makes us feel nourished, alive and grateful, while also giving space and kindness to any difficulties we are…

Famous by Naomi Shihab Nye

Famous by Naomi Shihab Nye

The river is famous to the fish. The loud voice is famous to silence, which knew it would inherit the earth before anybody said so. The cat sleeping on the fence is famous to the birds watching him from the birdhouse. The tear is famous, briefly, to the cheek. The idea you carry close to…

zen poem by ryokan

Zen Poem – Ryokan

Like the little stream Making its way Through the mossy crevices I, too, quietly Turn clear and transparent. by Ryokan, translated by John Stevens   Sitting by this little babbling stream in my mind’s eye takes me back to times when I used to cycle out of Glasgow and into the countryside, stopping and sitting…

HOKUSAI SAYS BY ROGER KEYES

Hokusai Says – Roger Keyes

Hokusai says look carefully. He says pay attention, notice. He says keep looking, stay curious. He says there is no end to seeing. He says look forward to getting old. He says keep changing, you just get more who you really are. He says get stuck, accept it, repeat yourself as long as it is…