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intimacy | Zen teachings

living into what cannot be solved

ByTom Davidson-Marx Posted on06/08/202407/15/2024 07/15/2024

Mindfulness allows us to live into all that cannot be solved. It’s also a gateway to equanimity, the peace of the present…

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gratefulness | intimacy

to live wisely, and able to love

ByTom Davidson-Marx Posted on12/02/202307/17/2024 07/17/2024

This is our work: to live my life wisely, not in contention with anything, and able to love. What does it mean…

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mindful listening
Christian mystics | intimacy

mindful listening

ByTom Davidson-Marx Posted on02/15/201806/21/2024 06/21/2024

There is something unspeakably beautiful about mindful listening to the rain. Not just hearing the rain, in the background of our important…

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No more new year's resolutions.
daily practice | intimacy

why I stopped making new year’s resolutions

ByTom Davidson-Marx Posted on01/07/201807/14/2024 07/14/2024

I decided to not make any new year’s resolutions. Well, except maybe one. I resolve to just be myself. I always felt…

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A mind unruffled by the vagaries of fortune, from sorrow freed, from disturbing emotions cleansed, from fear liberated, this is the greatest blessing.

~The Buddha (Mangala Sutta)

When you find your place where you actually are, practice occurs. When you find your way at this moment, practice occurs. Here is the place. Here the way unfolds.

Dogen, 1200 – 1253, Genjōkōan: Actualizaing the Fundamental Point

We can always imagine more perfect conditions. But it's not our task to create ideals, but to learn from the world as it is. For the awakening of the heart, conditions are always good enough.

Ajahn Sumedho

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