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The knotty issue of focus
It comes up again and again in our classes, so I thought it might be worth jotting down a few thoughts about focus. Doing this a hundred...
Alistair Appleton
Nov 16, 20103 min read
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Kick-Ass Mindfulness
Earlier this year I took up kickboxing. It was in the middle of a very grim and gloomy February when I was struggling with lots of demons...
Alistair Appleton
Oct 4, 20103 min read
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Joanna Macy, “World as Lover, World as Self”
Of course, even when you see the world as a trap and posit a fundamental separation between liberation of self and transformation of...
Alistair Appleton
Sep 29, 20102 min read
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Jeanette Winterson
Do you wake up as I do, having forgotten what it is that hurts or where, until you move? There is a second of consciousness that is clean...
Alistair Appleton
Sep 25, 20101 min read
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I am de-militarizing my mind
I am de-militarizing my mind, taking down the barbed-wire strand by strand. There is or was barely a surface unmined but gently I am...
Alistair Appleton
Sep 17, 20101 min read
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1952, John Cage and the ‘sound of silence’
There were – not one, but two articles on the ‘nada’ sound in this month’s London Review of Books. One, an article by Jenni Diski on...
Alistair Appleton
Aug 30, 20102 min read
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A Rumi quote
This Rumi quote seems to encapsulate how wonderful the mindfulness was on Holy Island last week. Out beyond ideas of wrong doing and...
Alistair Appleton
Aug 25, 20101 min read
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