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Moving through the Natural Seams (opens the original)
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The Seamingly Ordinary Cook and the Sensing Knife In the days of Zhuāngzǐ, there was a cook named Páo Dīng. He served Lord Wén Huì. One day, while carving an ox, his movements were so fluid that the sound of his knife seemed like music. Lord Wén Huì watched in wonder and said, “ How marvelous! Your skill has reached perfection. ” Páo Dīng replied, “ What I care for is the Way, not mere skill. When I first began, I saw the whole ox before me. After three years, I no longer saw the ox as a whole.
Poet as Listener (opens the original)
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How to Be a Poet by Wendell Berry (to remind myself) i Make a place to sit down. Sit down. Be quiet. You must depend upon affection, reading, knowledge, skill—more of each than you have—inspiration, work, growing older, patience, for patience joins time to eternity. Any readers who like your poems, doubt their judgment. ii Breathe with unconditional breath the unconditioned air. Shun electric wire. Communicate slowly. Live a three-dimensioned life; stay away from screens. Stay away from anything
The Eighty-Fourth Problem (opens the original)
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The Eighty-Fourth Problem an introduction to the parable, and to the practice that follows There is a teaching story that circulates widely in contemporary Buddhist and Zen contexts, most often called “the 83 problems.” Its lineage is not clean: it does not appear in the Pāli Canon nor in any Sūtra traceable to a named source. Versions of it circulate under the Buddha’s name, under Ajahn Chah’s name, and under no name at all, told simply as “an old story.” I offer this caveat not to diminish the
The Thought that Appears, the One who Sees: (opens the original)
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The Art of Stepping Back: An Introduction to Cognitive Defusion For those accustomed to sitting atop the meditation cushion, the mind’s tendency to spin intricate narratives is intimately familiar. A single thought can arise, capture your attention, and instantly pull you into a vivid story about who you are, what you have failed at, or what might go wrong next. In the language of Western psychology, particularly within Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT), this state of someone being thoroug
Shaking and Settling into Stillness (opens the original)
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