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The Last Flip of the Perpetual Calendar
(Sabbatical/Sabbatical)
... glorious white space I’ve inhabited this past year. For fifteen months, I’ve read, written, studied, reflected—and I’ve sat in silence for hours on end. But the luxury of this sort of living is coming ...
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July 2010 Reading
(Influences/Influences)
... to convince any reader that the man is on to something. This book is required reading for our incoming first-year students at Rollins, and I’ll be interested to see how they respond to it. In the ...
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July 2010 State-of-the-Household Letter
(Journal/Journal)
... health-care infrastructure guided mostly by their desire to avoid litigation—don’t get me started). The ups and downs of this medical year are chronicled in the blog, so I won’t repeat here. Suffice ...
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Twelve Doors is Leaving Home
(Twelve Doors/Twelve Doors)
... and I think this book can serve as the course material for a new blended course I hope to offer this year. More details on that when I have them. For now, I’m enjoying the easing of the pressure ...
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Who Is In Charge?
(Journal/Journal)
... struggle with life.” This concept of surrender is one we’ve been struggling with for years as we’ve engaged in our spiritual studies and practice together. The concept is shot through the wisdom ...
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Mahamudra (The Great Seal)
(My Writing/Poetry)
... window and see the moon suspended in the live oak. It inches its way across bare branches, and light diminishes; my mind churns, yearnings rise. I want to anticipate tomorrow’s meeting, ...
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Craving and Clinging at Publix
(Journal/Journal)
... grabbed at one thing then another, trying to amuse themselves in the frantic way children do when standing in lines. I’d say they were four and five years old. I was happy not to be doing what this mother ...
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Mahamudra
(Influences/Influences)
... legs across the bed. I turn to the window and see the moon suspended in the live oak. It inches its way across bare branches, and light diminishes; my mind churns, yearnings rise. I want ...
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Misguided Yogi
(Lessons from the Mat/Lessons from the Mat)
... and over for the last eight years, until last night on the drive home from the studio, I hadn’t really absorbed that lesson. On April 9, 2010, I felt strong and confident that I was moving steadily toward ...
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Live Life Beyond Words
(Sabbatical/Sabbatical)
I know of no single thing more conducive to great harm than the unrestrained mind. – the Buddha I’m wondering if I need to stop reading for a while. Every day for the last twenty years or ...
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Lean in to the Difficulty
(Influences/Influences)
I thought sabbatical year was going to be a year of pleasure and ease, relaxation and spaciousness. Those are words I have used a lot in the last few years. They have seemingly been my goals—pleasure, ...
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Dispatched
(Sabbatical/Sabbatical)
... I am one full year later, still working on it, still troubled by it. It will not be dispatched. It is with me all the time. It pops itself rudely into conversations with mere acquaintances. It leers ...
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Can You Wiggle Your Toes?
(Journal/Journal)
... time of the year. I cannot bike. I cannot teach yoga. I cannot clean my house or even feed myself very easily. Everything is difficult, every move an effort. Good reasons to be disappointed. But ...
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April 2010 Reading
(Influences/Influences)
... a Psychology of Awakening. This is one of the most helpful books I’ve read this year. Welwood’s approach to therapy is infused with Buddhist practice, and it is an approach that works for me right ...
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A New Kind of Balance
(Journal/Journal)
... such a waste of precious time. And at the very most beautiful time of the year, too! But John Welwood says the practice is to “meet experience fully and directly, without filtering it through any conceptual ...
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Precepts for the Evolutionary Teacher
(Sabbatical/Sabbatical)
What is an “evolutionary teacher”? She believes that all human beings, no matter what age, have a deep yearning to rise up out of their currant state of awareness, especially if that state ...
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Devotion to the Practice
(Journal/Journal)
... that is better to do our own work (however small it may seem) than to yearn do someone else’s work. Success grows out of being who we are meant to be. ...
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Pop
(Journal/Journal)
... ways I am able to teach and share that practice with others. I was even looking forward to returning to work and being able to teach my students what I’ve learned this year about practice. Along with ...
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The Right Tool for the Right Job
(Sabbatical/Sabbatical)
... a view of the new begonias, lusting after the gorgeous flowering trees, fantasizing how my garden will reach new heights of beauty this year. But first, clean up! The perennial spring chore for ...
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"There's always a five-year-old!"
(Lessons from the Mat/Lessons from the Mat)
... a more disciplined writer. Her reason was that she had a five-year old, and thus it would be impossible to shape time in the ways he was suggesting. And he replied immediately, “Yes! There’s always ...