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A month in the Center
I just spent the last month housesitting the Nyingma Center building.
I must say that I found it a good experience, although it was harder than I anticipated.
I think that almost none of the things I planned or anticipated went as I had thought, and that can be hard. Still, on the other hand, it was… »
The Importance of Practice
One of the reasons I’ve not been posting much is because I felt I couldn’t really write with any amount of credibility about the subjects I wanted to write about.
I could have written about my Skillful Means studies, or about my work in the center, but I felt, and mostly still feel that it would… »
A bit gloomy, but a happy end
One of the things I get increasingly irritated and worried about is the mounting tension between people who are religious and people who style themselves atheist, particularly “atheists” who style themselves as proponents of enlightened culture and science.
I am stressing here that it is a tension between people and their identities because, as far as… »
Back after a long hiatus.
Well, it’s certainly been a very long time since I’ve posted anything on here.
More about the why of that later; such a lot of things have happened in the last few months, I feel quite overwhelmed by them.
First of all, jobwise. From starting last year at Lotus Design as a cushion filler, I am now… »
Positive Thoughts
This week we have been working with positive daily mottos at work.
The idea is that apart from the other practices we do during work you formulate a positive motto to work with during a particular day.
I must say that I liked working with them.
The first two days were hard, because I started making the motto… »
Profound
Reading back over my posts over the year, I am reminded that most of the insights I’ve posted about don’t seem that profound when they are written down.
And to be honest, they probably aren’t.
Be kind to people, be aware of what is happening, don’t let emotions cloud your judgement, they are all pretty much things… »
Work and practice update.
So, I’ve been posting in small sentences the last two days.
This is mainly because, however trite these saying may sound at first glance, they are actually more profound than you’d think.
At least, they do for me.
Especially the one about time has become more and more important for me.
The interesting thing is that although it I… »
The First Step
We are told: “Love your neighbour as you love yourself.”
The first step towards a better world is to genuinely love… »
Unlearning
It’s the end of the year, the days are short and that always puts me in the mood for looking back and try to summarise the past year.
And while I was thinking about this last night in bed it struck me that one of the more important things that I have heard, if not always… »
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