Death and presence - Thank you dear Mary Oliver
Mary Oliver died on the 17th January, 2019. We are a long time dead.
All parts are welcome ~ Loosening our identification in mindfulness meditation practice
Our fears are like dragons guarding our most precious treasures – Rilke Most of us come to mindfulness practice to deal with something we don’t want.
What to expect in doing a Mindfulness Based Stress Reduction course
Six things to expect from an MBSR course - and they may surprise you.
ABC Catalyst - The Mindfulness Experiment
ABC’s Catalyst recently conducted “ The Mindfulness Experiment” by inviting 15 Australians from all walks of life into an eight-week intensive mindfulness meditation program: Mindfulness Based Stress Reduction (MBSR).
“Progress” in meditation and opening to the bigger picture
My colleague Nancy Bardecke says: “Expectations? Suffering under construction!” So often when we are learning something new we expect this – the straight line of progress.
Tenderness in our practice and our relationships
A few years back I went to a one day seminar with a remarkable person - Kent Hoffman. He is a long term meditation dude in the Zen tradition, and also the founder of a profound parenting program - the Circle of Security which is grounded in the latest science about how kids and parents thrive. He had some interesting things to say about life, love and stress - the foundation being:
Practice as resting (in the flow of our inner life)
We work so hard at everything. And anything can become one more task to do – including our mindfulness practice.
Mindfulness and climate change: are we paying attention to the things that matter?
Dear friends, I don’t usually write emails through Openground that are directed specifically to our governance as a community, but I think now is the time.
