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Tastes of Turbulence

Today’s meditation at the library was more chaotic than usual. There was an issue with a generator that began making an upsetting noise as soon as we began. Due to past training I guess, for me there was a humor about it. It was distracting and I would have liked for it to stop, butContinue reading “Tastes of Turbulence”

music alone

Have continued to attend the library meditation. Eyes open meditation in a group with others is a unique and powerful experience, not because anything unusual happens, but because you all are just there with what is. Although one couldn’t call the group secular, the meditations are, as is required. Usually there is a recording, andContinue reading “music alone”

Yoga Horses

Attended a yoga class recently… felt the distance between where my body is, and where it might be, felt the strength we might enjoy enjoy together… the stature of posture that might carry daily life better… the wonderful ache of core muscles noticed and challenged. “I’ll never forget this again or let it go” IContinue reading “Yoga Horses”

Compelling Patterns and Liberating Knowledge

“The fact and the particular character of a temporal series are entirely due to the view that is taken on Great Time. This does not exactly mean that time is a subjective phenomenon, because the ‘subject’ in a lower space is also a result of a particular ‘knowing’ of ‘Time’. But certainly, the observer’s egoContinue reading “Compelling Patterns and Liberating Knowledge”

Object and Glow

[Re Exercise 17, Time Space and Knowledge] Before retreating in Nova Scotia, I’d experienced only the purple water lily blooms common to our gardens in Florida, which are indeed glowy and beautiful, but small. This photo (left, below) was my reward for balancing precariously at the edge of a pond in the middle of wild overgrowth at Windhorse Farm.Continue reading “Object and Glow”