Posts tagged with 'attention'
Personal ‘retreat’: seventh reflection – life tide returning
27th February 2016
I didn’t write a reflection in the blog yesterday (although I did the day before). I said when I came down here for this ten day retreat at the Krishnamurti Study Centre, that I was aware of three intentions … three hopes. One was to “move the slider across” from …
Personal ‘retreat’: sixth reflection – let's lose our heads & come to our senses
25th February 2016
I have already written a series of posts about this stay down at the Krishnamurti Study Centre in Hampshire - see for example the first one "Setting the scene" or the most recent (before this one) "Being, flow & 'pure driving'". Yesterday I took an ‘idle & blessed’ day. This …
Personal ‘retreat’: fifth reflection – being, flow & ‘pure driving’
24th February 2016
Yesterday I wrote a post on "Our sense of self". Today the theme is more “Being & doing”. My life at home is very busy. I welcome this … and have made it happen … with work I love … living richly … but full of “doing”. On this fourth …
Personal ‘retreat’: fourth reflection – our sense of self
23rd February 2016
I wrote a post yesterday on "Quietening down ... and do we need time to change". Now it's the fourth morning … I have some sense of my inner world rearranging itself, like shifting icebergs. That description overplays what feels to be going on … but changes there certainly are, …
Personal ‘retreat’: third reflection – quietening down ... and do we need time to change?
22nd February 2016
I've already written a couple of blog posts during my "retreat" at this Study Centre - "Setting the scene" and "Settling & questioning". Now it's the start of the third day … yesterday was a strange mix of tastes. Out on a couple of walks … for over three hours …
Personal ‘retreat’: second reflection – settling & questioning
21st February 2016
I wrote a post yesterday about arriving here at the Krishnamurti Study Centre. Now it's early on the second morning – how was the first full day? It was fine. I wrote, thought, read, went on a two-hour walk (boots repeatedly clogging with the Hampshire clay), practised yoga, meditated, and …
Personal ‘retreat’: first reflection – setting the scene
20th February 2016
So here I am bright & early on the first full day of a ten-day personal retreat at the Krishnamurti Study Centre in Hampshire. Why? Well I was conscious of three intertwining reasons when I booked this time away several months ago. One is about doing & being, another about …
Practising "being": remembering to wake up, appreciate & be open to surprise
24th September 2014
In her wonderful poem "The summer day", Mary Oliver wrote: Who made the world? Who made the swan, and the black bear? Who made the grasshopper? This grasshopper, I mean - the one who has flung herself out of the grass, the one who is eating sugar out of my …
"To reach the other shore with each step of the crossing": linking this with embodied cognition (2nd post)
28th December 2012
(This post & the previous one in the series are downloadable combined into a Word doc or a PDF file) "The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new lands but in seeing with new eyes." Proust "Let the beauty we love be what we do. There are hundreds …
"To reach the other shore with each step of the crossing": zazen, associative thinking & value-driven behaviour (1st post)
26th December 2012
(This post & the next in the series are downloadable combined into a Word doc or a PDF file) "But the future is the future, the past is the past; now we should work on something new." Shunryu Suzuki In 1970 I started to learn meditation with the Cambridge Buddhist …