Life is so like a bluebird - Thu, 04 Sep 2008
This text turned up in a comment at cheerfulmonk.com, a blog I read, and it says something about life:
Oh, life is so like a bluebird
The poet Omar hath said.
Sometimes it sings at your window,
And sometimes it dumps on your head.
Mindfulness for Beginners - Thu, 28 Aug 2008
Mindfulness for Beginners is a set with two CD’s with Jon Kabat-Zinn, each CD lasts around 70 minutes. The first CD is an introduction to mindfulness, awareness and to MBSR, Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction. The second CD has five guided meditations.
The first CD has sessions about:
• The only moment we have
• What is mindfulness
• Awareness, a sixth sense
• Being present [...]
Arriving at your own Door - Thu, 28 Aug 2008
I am reading Arriving at your own Door - 108 lesson sin mindfulness by Jon Kabat-Zinn. The book consists of qoutes (verses) that are compiled from Coming to our senses: Healing ourselves and the world through mindfulness. On the back of the book it says:
A quiet trust in awareness sometimes requires inspiration and gentle reminders. [...]
A New Earth - Wed, 27 Aug 2008
I have not yet read the book A New Earth by Eckhart Tolle, have browsed it but did not connect with it. Today I came across A New Earth at Oprah’s Book Club. It says:
Now you can hold A New Earth in the palm of your hand. Download webcast videos, audio files or transcripts and [...]
Past lives, Consciousness and Oneness - Sun, 17 Aug 2008
Tom Stine has an interesting blog called Living from Consciousness which “has as its primary focus the never ending journey of awakening to our true nature as pure consciousness”. There are interesting posts and great discussions in the comment sections.
Tom wrote Past Lives Ain’t What They Used To Be, about past lives or reincarnation. I [...]
Zen and me - Sun, 17 Aug 2008
This is a short introduction to Zen and me. I have no formal Zen training, I have arrived at Zen along a different path. Much in Zen matches my own experiences which is why I use Zen as a reference.
There are Hardcore Zen and Zen Lite. Over at Taoism.net I found What is Zen? which [...]
What is Zen? - Wed, 06 Aug 2008
I have read the book What is Zen? by Alan Watts. The book contains a selection of Alan’s talks and the four parts are about:
• A simple way, A difficult way
• Zen reconsidered
• Space
• Zen mind
I like the book, it is easy to read yet it makes you think and feel. My purpose with buying the book was to [...]
Is self improvement possible? - Tue, 05 Aug 2008
PickTheBrain has an interesting post by Kent Thune about Is There Really Such a Thing as ‘Self Improvement’?. It starts like this:
Can the self be improved? What is the self, anyway? Does the currently popular “self-help movement” really help us or is it a paradoxical diversion from our true self?
The post at PickTheBrain brings up [...]
We have moved to a new domain - Sun, 03 Aug 2008
This blog was previously at btwendel.com but I decided that it deserved a name and domain of its own. All the content is copied here, including comments.
The blog has a new theme, I have built it on Sandbox which is a terrific starting point when creating WordPress themes. There are some more changes in looks [...]
Mindfulness with Jon Kabat-Zinn - Sun, 27 Jul 2008
Google has a collection of company videos at YouTube. There are a lot of sessions worth watching.
I came across Mindfulness with Jon Kabat-Zinn which is terrific. The workshop is an hour long but is well worth that time, it also includes a meditation session. Jon Kabat-Zinn talks about mindfulness and meditation, awareness, non-doing, beginner’s mind, [...]