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#present
A Practical Guide to Mindfulness (Tessa Watt)
The breath as an anchor
When you bring awareness to your breath, it is this breath, in this moment – not last year’s breath or tomorrow’s breath. The breath is closely connected to the body, and also to the mind; it is a link or bridge between the two. When you tune in to your breathing, your body and…
Christmas Shoppers Throng High Streets In Last-minute Rush For Presents
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Christmas shoppers throng high streets in last-minute rush for presents
La Formica Zen (italian Edition) ( )
Il momento migliore per piantare un albero
Il momento migliore per piantare un albero era 20 anni fa. Il secondo miglior momento è ora.” Proverbio Cinese
L'istante presente è il cuore del mondo
Non si costruisce l’avvenire sognando il futuro, ma concentrando il desiderio e la volonta’ sull’istante presente. Non c’e’ altra via. L’istante presente e’ la fonte di tutte le cose, il cuore del mondo. Dugpa Rimpoce
Lo Spirito del Giappone (Leonardo Vittorio Arena)
In ogni momento c'è tutto il tempo
In ogni cosa si concentrano tutte le cose, in ogni momento c’è tutto il tempo. La pratica può cominciare solo con questa consapevolezza.11 È il principio fondamentale dell’estetica giapponese: la tazza da tè rappresenta il mondo intero. Ogni cosa rappresenta la totalità. È uno…
Sexuality And Gender In The Classical World - Readings And Sources
Plato's third, androgynous sex
"At the beginning there were three sexes, not just the two sexes, the male and the female, as at present; there was a third kind that shared the characteristics of the other two, and whose name survives, even though the thing itself has disappeared. For at that time one was…
The Acid Diaries (Christopher Gray)
Self-remembering and the thrill of direct action
To say I had briefly “woken up” would express perfectly what had happened. And as I read more of Ouspensky’s book, I realized I had known this strange state before. Falling in love had taken me there; so had Third World travel; so had political activism when it involved crime…
Vipassana as a way out of breakdown
After the best part of a year, my failure to make any progress at all had brought me close to nervous breakdown. In fact, I think I would have cracked up (Gurdjieff students do) if it hadn’t been for my discovery of vipassana, the Buddhist meditation technique in which you…
The present moment as the only place without suffering
This is the very worst of the worst, I remember thinking—when, lunging unannounced like the other insane emotional swings of the afternoon, the pain just vanished into thin air. I found myself gazing around the apartment as though it were the very heart of the Mystery. There…
Villa Metaphora (Andrea De Carlo)
Tra stanchezza del presente e incertezza del futuro
Così adesso eccoli qua a rimbalzare sul mare color cobalto, nel vento carico di salsedine e nella luce abbagliante, presi come sono tra stanchezza del presente e incertezza sul futuro.