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Wendy’s Writings

  • Dharma or samsara?

    Homage to the Guru – our own true nature, and the embodiment of that….

     

    Thoughts and feelings

    sensations, sounds…

    the natural radiance of the ground.

     

    If I relax and let them be

    I find the openness of ‘me’.

     

    If I grab hold, I’ll make of me

    what’s called by Scots

    ‘a wee stookie!’*

     

    * Stookie …a rigid dressing, usually made of gauze and plaster of Paris, used to immobilize an injured body part, as in a fracture or dislocation – a plaster cast (urban dictionary )

    You could see the plaster of paris as the energy of attention which, when applied to the gauze of the constructs/concepts, seems to create a fixed shape or pattern which restricts the degree of free movement or play in the world.

    wendy Dec 2014

     

     

  • …be soft in your practice…

    For those of you who come and go…

    This comes from the introduction to a lovely book – Sayings and tales of Zen Buddhism —  Reflections for Every Day, by William Wray… and it has helped me to think of dharma practice in a softer way from the habitual striving —  yet keeping the connection throughout changing circumstances.

    ‘Be soft in your practice. Think of the method is a fine silvery stream not a raging waterfall. Follow the stream, have faith in its course. It will go its own way, meandering here trickling there.It will find the grooves, the cracks, the crevices. Just follow it. Never let it out of your sight. It will take you.’

     

  • How should a teacher behave?

    …have a look under Crediton Group

  • Love is………..well, what is it?

    Octobers video might surprise you…

     

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