Well, well. How serendipitous! No more than a couple of hours after my earlier post this quote falls into my lap.
“Whatever inspiration is, it’s born from a continuous ‘I don’t know.'” — Wisława Szymborska
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Ouch! Managed to ‘brand’ my arm on the door of the log burner last night. It hurt at the time but it really hurts this morning. 🤦♂️
Brilliant, as ever, from @annie
”In my experience, having courage feels like a cross between bungee jumping without a cord and giving a speech while naked. It feels like a combination of the things I fear, in their most daunting form, usually in the midst of some circumstance that makes me feel at my most vulnerable and ill-prepared.”
Getting back to yoga tonight was such good feeling. A really nice vibe with some lovely guys in a beautiful setting. I consider myself very lucky.
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Thinking about the cost of being persistently aware of global news about which we can have no input, involvement or influence.
There seems to be mass spell cast over us by the media implying that to not know about every single thing that is happening on the surface of the earth (or in outer space for that matter) means we are ignorant and ill informed.
The most we can do is have an opinion. And if we’re really honest, opinions, for the most part, are a complete waste of time and energy. Energy and time far better spent engaging in local spheres of activity where we can have direct and real influence and involvement.
Just because we can know about every single event happening anywhere doesn’t mean we should know or even need to know.
The most pernicious phrase added to speculative news stories is: ‘Should we be worried?’ Unless you can have a demonstrative direct affect then the answer is always a resounding ‘No!’
This.
Minus the incorrect assertion that Buddhism seeks to detach one from desire. No. Buddhism advocates that we allow desires to arise without clinging on to them for dear life. Desires are like everything else, impermanent.
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For me meditation and contemplation are synonymous. Practice is continuous in the midst of life. To misquote Alan Watts:
“Zen is life, not something about life.”
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Another beautiful post from Mike Farley, this time on impermanence and the interdependence of life and death.
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Here’s to the new Reeder app
Time for a long overdue shout out to the new Reeder app. I haven’t seen Iconfactory’s Project Tapestry yet but if you’re after a unified timeline app then you won’t go far wrong with the new Reeder.
It supports RSS, podcasts, YouTube, all Fediverse servers, Bluesky, micro.blog, Glass, Flickr, Comic Strip and Reddit. It looks great too as you might expect.
Well worth checking out.
