61: Choice and getting punched in the face
Thoughts after listening to a talk by Brad Warner, called The Zen Butterfly Effect
The lake
The lake
Thoughts after listening to a talk by Brad Warner, called The Zen Butterfly Effect
Thoughts good habits and simplicity. Contains crows.
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End of day
Back at the lake, and thinking about just being.
Sunset
My first walk for a while. This is about keeping things simple.
Thoughts on not rushing to try to correct everything, and how we should trust ourselves.
My mother died of cancer just before Christmas. Here a few thoughts about her passing.
My amazing mother died peacefully at 6pm 20 December 2020.
I’m so grateful to have spent time looking after her before she had to go into hospital, and to have been able to visit her in her last days. I was there at the end. So much love.
As my mother is now on end of life care, I’m able to visit her at the hospital. It’s a hard, hard time. Thankfully my younger brother has been able to be here too, so we can take breaks and tag-team and my Mum has someone with her almost all the time.
Sorry about not posting or podcasting for a while. A family member has just been diagnosed with a serious illness, and helping them has taken up all of my time and energy. I hope to be able to resume posting soon.
Back at the lake, talking about greed, including spiritual greed.
The podcast I mention is by Brad Warner - Can you be just a little bit greedy?
The quotation I give as “Now you have, so guard well” is actually “Preserve well for you now have; this is all;” and is found in The Most Excellent Mirror—Samādhi, one of the scriptures recited in the morning at Sōtō Zen temples. (The wording I give may exist in a different scripture, but I haven’t been able to find it).
Misty by the lake today.
Back on the Ridge walk. Today I talk a little bit about a chapter from the Shobogenzo called Kobusshin - The original, unchanging Buddha-mind.
Wonderful walk today.
I’m still here. An experiment in recording at home. I’ll be getting back into themed podcasts soon. Stay well.
I made a mistake in the podcast: Rev. Master Mugō’s blog is at jademountains.net.
So many fungi on this walk.
Once again the necessity of letting go in meditation is clear.
Fresh
Thoughts on time, meditation and the self.
I would strongly suggest reading “Uji”, a chapter of Dogen’s Shobogenzo.
I would also suggest listening to Rev. Master Daishin Morgan’s talk: Time and existence are the same thing
