What is mindfulness?
Last updated on 3rd November 2011
The impediment to action advances the action. What stands in the way becomes the way.
- Marcus Aurelius
Yesterday we had the twelfth & final session of this "Life skills" evening class. There was scheduled to have been a bit less than a three month gap since the last - eleventh - session. However the heavy winter snow we'd experienced had resulted in this last session being postponed.
My house having burnt down, nothing now impedes my bright vision of the moon. - Zen saying
Keep your face always toward the sunshine - and shadows will fall behind you. - Walt Whitman
I wrote yesterday about the first part of this tenth "Life skills" evening. I particularly discussed development of Goodwill practice - very much in the "Nourishing positive states" section of the "Four aspects" diagram (below). In the second half of the evening we moved on to the "Exploring & processing" section of the diagram with the introduction particularly of various forms of therapeutic writing.
There is nothing the wise man does reluctantly.
- Seneca
If you want others to be happy, practise compassion. If you want to be happy, practise compassion. Dalai Lama
Beware the barrenness of a busy life.
- Anon
Yesterday was the ninth evening of this "Life skills" training. I wrote about the eighth session last week. The sequence of regular weekly classes now moves on to increasing gaps between sessions - so it's three weeks until the tenth, a further five weeks until the eleventh, and then an additional eleven weeks until the final twelfth session. My hope is that we will be able to arrange occasional follow-up meetings even after that.
Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it. - George Santayana
You can earn a living from what you get, but you can only get a life from what you give. - Andy Ripley
Let the beauty we love be what we do. There are hundreds of ways to kneel and kiss the ground.
- Rumi
Yesterday we had the sixth session of this twelve evening "Life skills" course. I wrote last week about the fifth session. A dozen slides covering material we explored are viewable/downloadable at slides 1-6, Powerpoint or slides 1-6, PDF and slides 7-12, Powerpoint or slides 7-12, PDF.