Leslie Rinchen-Wongmo, Stitching Buddhas and Weaving Inspiration
Posted in practice on Jun 24th, 2010
I don’t usually close the door when I sit down to meditate in the morning. The house is empty except for the cats. A low altar sits in a corner of my bedroom. Facing the altar are two flat green cushions and a green shawl to cover my knees. (I’m rather obsessive about color coordination. [...]
Do you make a big deal of things? I know I do. Much more often than I’d like to, I see my problems as real and important and urgent. It can help to shift your attention off the foreground and onto the background in those moments. It can help to reflect on context. How fleeting [...]
Posted in About me, Inspiration, practice on Feb 3rd, 2010
This week’s eZine article from Christine Kane is right in line with my own current practice. Use the gentle power of ritual to set the stage for your day. Rather than letting the winds of chance toss you out of bed and into the world — where you can then react, react, react — why [...]
I gave myself a new practice this week, inspired by a function I discovered on my computer. I’ve set my computer to announce the time on the hour and the half hour. When I hear the announcement on the hour, I’ve promised myself to stop whatever I’m doing and breathe consciously. Sounds simple, right? So [...]
Posted in practice on Sep 11th, 2009
Awake in the wee hours of the morning, having just made another journey across nine time zones, I watched the thoughts float across my mind screen. You know how thoughts float when you can’t sleep and aren’t really worried about it? I remembered Christine Kane‘s latest eZine article about beginning anything. Basically, her advice comes [...]
Posted in About me, Expat life, practice on Sep 2nd, 2009
In the past month, I’ve taken a small step toward creativity and away from reactivity: I stopped checking e-mail first thing in the morning. It’s hard to believe how hard it’s been and what a difference it’s made. I live on two continents. My work life, my social life, and my educational life all transpire [...]
Posted in Buddhist, Inspiration, practice on Jun 29th, 2009
I had the great pleasure of attending a talk by Jetsunma Tenzin Palmo at Ghe Pel Ling in Milan a few weeks ago. Tenzin Palmo is a British nun in the Tibetan Buddhist tradition. Her twelve years in retreat in a Himalayan cave are the subject of a captivating book by Vickie MacKenzie. Tenzin Palmo [...]
Posted in Inspiration, mind, practice on Jun 23rd, 2009
Anna T. — who explores art, meditation and life on her See. Be. Draw. blog — wrote about the importance of nature the other day. In her post, she referred to research on two different types of attention: directed attention and soft fascination. Directed attention is seen as a limited resource that tends to get [...]
Posted in Inspiration, mind, practice on Jun 16th, 2008
Christine Kane has done it again! Inspired and impressed me. Made me laugh and given me a practical tool for life. For those who don’t know Christine, she’s a great songwriter too! Her blog offers inspiration and tools for living a more present, sane, creative, and rewarding life. Today’s post is titled What spam can [...]
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