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FIELD NOTES FROM THE NATURE OF MIND
Observations from meditation, nature, art, and ordinary life.
A new note every month.
When the Self Falls Away
One Friday evening in London, everything suddenly felt like enough. By Monday, the feeling was gone and I spent years trying to understand what had opened.
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40 Things I Have Learned In 40 Years
What I want my daughter to know. Reminders I keep coming back to. Today I turn 40. For years I have wanted to compile the lessons life has taught me so far and preserve them for my daughter. Something she might one day read when she is older and curious about what her father had learned from his choices, mistakes and experiences. As my birthday approached, I began going through old journals and notes, collecting the reflections that keep returning in different forms, usually
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By Monday It Was Gone
One Friday evening in London, everything suddenly felt like enough. By Monday, the feeling was gone and I spent years trying to understand what had opened.
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The One Thing Most People Are Unwilling to Feel
"When we come into the present, we begin to feel the life around us again, but we also encounter whatever we have been avoiding. We must have the courage to face whatever is present – our pain, our desires, our grief, our loss, our secret hopes our love – everything that moves us most deeply." Jack Kornfield A few days ago, a friend of mine came to stay with us. He’s a Lama I first met in Nepal, where he lives in the monastery of my teacher, Yongey Mingyur Rinpoche. That morn
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