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Eastern Common Crane illustration. Digitally enhanced from our own original edition of Pictorial Monograph of Birds (1885) by Numata Kashu (1838-1901).
daily practice | patience | simplicity

a keener love of simplicity

ByTom Davidson-Marx Posted on02/02/202407/17/2024 07/17/2024

Meditation helps us put down the baggage we carry around. Traveling lightly, we feel airborne. We move into a keener love of…

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Crabs on the Shore, c. 1827, print maker: Yashima Gakutei
daily practice | patience

monkey mind, crabby mind

ByTom Davidson-Marx Posted on05/07/202307/17/2024 07/17/2024

Lately, I’ve been dealing with a relative of monkey mind I am calling crabby mind. They may be far apart on the…

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does meditation help with patience?
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does meditation help with patience?

ByTom Davidson-Marx Posted on04/27/202106/02/2024 06/02/2024

I think so, but the real question is how to develop patience with the meditation process itself. The only way to fail…

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Mindfulness is allowing seeing just to see
patience | progress in meditation | psychological issues

the monkey pod tree in the beach park

ByTom Davidson-Marx Posted on01/21/201608/12/2024 08/12/2024

Life just as it is, is eloquent. The world is its own magic. We need to need to stop seeking some additional…

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redemptive suffering
Christian mystics | patience | psychological issues

wholeness and redemptive suffering

ByTom Davidson-Marx Posted on02/14/201503/22/2025 03/22/2025

Redemptive suffering suggests that even in pain, there’s potential for positive change. We’ll look at practical ways to apply it in the…

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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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