Dhammapada

sit quietly and observe your thoughts
July 18, 2024
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tom davidson-marx
This simple practice helps release unhelpful preoccupations that creep into your mind space as you sit quietly and observe your thoughts. As we release these unhelpful preoccupations, we find less craving for distraction hits like the news. What would it be like to spend more time absorbed in mystery and awe rather than in your
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hello darkness my old friend
October 14, 2023
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tom davidson-marx
When I think about the Israel-Hamas war, I struggle for some time, before finally sighing to myself hello darkness my old friend. The other day I came across a very short poem by the 11th century Japanese woman poet Izumi Shikibu, and it struck a chord: Although the windblows terribly here,the moonlight also leaksbetween the
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