Laura Cannon
@lauraccannon
Laura Cannon
@lauraccannon
This can be a method for opening up to positive experience in our sitting practice. We may find a natural appreciation welling up when we notice more clearly that we are currently at peace. The ease we experience when no hindrance is present can become a cause for deep gratitude, which in turn makes us feel a love for life itself—for the bare fact
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Dharma is born mysteriously out of the intersection between The Gift and The Times. Dharma is a response to the urgent—though often hidden—need of the moment. Each of us feels some aspect of the world’s suffering acutely. It tears at our hearts. Others don’t see it or don’t care. But we feel it. And we must pay attention. We must act. This little
... See moreI’ve found one tried-and-tested mindfulness exercise to be helpful here. Become consciously aware of your feet – of their position in space and their temperature, their contact with your footwear or the ground. Come out of your head for a moment, and especially out of other people’s heads. Here you are. Here. On the ground. Now: what feels like it
... See moreEverybody knows it, but almost everybody is deluded into thinking there’s something more to learn, something hidden and esoteric that is revealed only to a special few. Only after years of searching do we find that there’s nothing more to find. Will we be relieved or disappointed? What is there to gain from practice, after all? We realize that our
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