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The Veteran in a New Field (1865) by Winslow Homer.
basic mindfulness | Pema Chodron

meeting your edge

ByTom Davidson-Marx Posted on06/03/202407/15/2024 07/15/2024

The mind throws up resistance to the process of liberation- but we can metabolize this, allowing deep change and a graceful opening…

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meditation to take oneself less seriously- Wheatstacks, Snow Effect, Morning (1891) by Claude Monet
poets and poetry | the present moment

softly, as in a morning sunrise, or meditation to take oneself less seriously

ByTom Davidson-Marx Posted on05/14/202303/22/2025 03/22/2025

Meditation shows me my burdens were mostly imagined. But even imaginary ones can carry real emotional weight. Meditation to take oneself less…

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when is the best time to meditate? ask Portrait-of-a-woman-by-Julie-de-Graag-1877-1924
daily practice | U Tejaniya

when is the best time to meditate?

ByTom Davidson-Marx Posted on07/10/202207/22/2024 07/22/2024

… when the mind complains it does NOT want to meditate, says the Buddhist monk U Tejaniya I’m going to assume that…

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letting go of wanting happiness
impermanence | poets and poetry | the present moment | U Tejaniya

letting go of wanting happiness

ByTom Davidson-Marx Posted on10/19/201803/24/2025 03/24/2025

Folks who meditate in order to feel better often find the opposite. Eventfully they see that it’s the letting go of the…

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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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