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.
Just seen A Real Pain. A good movie. Learned that Kieran Culkin is brilliant at playing himself. Thought he was perfection in Succession and great in A Real Pain but it will be interesting to see if he can do anything else in other roles.
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Very curious to see Roberts Eggers’ Nosferatu remake. Mixed reviews but I always enjoy his work, particularly loved The Witch.
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“What we’re really in the business of doing is helping people stay with the thoughts and feelings they are coming to meditation to escape.”
Barry Magid, Zen teacher – Ordinary Mind Zendo
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Happy to have booked my first yoga class of the year. It will be good to get back on the mat regularly.
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I’m enjoying the slow pace of micro.blog. And the lack of likes and follower counts and ‘re-posts’ and all the other insane ‘incentives’ mainstream social media thinks we want and absolutely do not need.
“When there is nothing left, the way opens. Only when you can sit still in the ruins of all you had lived for, and see what is actually there, can you begin to wake up at last.”
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“Nobody needs to go anywhere else. We are all, if we only knew it, already there.”
— Aldous Huxley
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