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Appreciation of the Realm of Things

When you appreciate an object for what it is, when you acknowledge its being without mental projection, you cannot not feel grateful for its existence. You may also sense that it is not really inanimate that it only appears so to the senses. Physicists will confirm that on a molecular level it is indeed a  [More …]

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so much depends upon a red wheel barrow glazed with rain water beside the white chickens. —William Carlos Williams, Spring and All (1923)

Blessed Be the Wind

Blessed be the Wind! Without wind, most of Earth would be uninhabitable. The tropics would grow so unbearably hot that nothing could live there, and the rest of the planet would freeze. Moisture, if any existed, would be confined to oceans, and all but the fringe of the great continents… would be desert. There would  [More …]

When Great Nature Sighs

When great Nature sighs, we hear the winds Which, noiseless in themselves, Awaken voices from other beings, Blowing on them from every opening Loud voices sound. Have you not heard This rush of tones? There stands the overhanging wood On the steep mountain: Old trees with holes and cracks Like snouts, maws, and ears, Like  [More …]

Dimension Three – Impressions

Working with Impressions – Full and Open Perception and Deep Reception of the External World Nourishment of Who and What We Most Truly Are The Substance and Energy to Feed, Grow and Empower both our Inner Development and Higher Quality Engagement with the Outer World Plugging into Nature as a Wisdom Teaching Life and Nature  [More …]

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Eating as an Ablution

When a student observed that there was a purity to the teacher’s approach to food – how it is served, how it is eaten – the teacher responded:

It’s like doing an ablution. Ablution reminds you of the specialness and sacredness of life – what you do before you go into a special space to receive. Meals should be approached that way. Approach eating as a cleansing process in terms of set-up for it so that you can receive the bounty of the universe and the sacredness of life, of creation, of the gift of it. And in real spiritual development, purity is a bodily experience.

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