Remember when we practiced passage meditation? The Buddhist monk Ajahn Amaro spoke these words at a meditation retreat in 2012. Today, we take time to stop, pick one sentence from the paragraph above and commit it to memory. The words have a profound richness, spoken by somebody who relates to stillness, in depth, daily. Tweet… Read more »
Posts By: Mariana
#tds542 Do you find it hard to live in the present?
It is easy say that living in the present gives us a quiet mind and a still point in time. This is true, but how many of us can spend any time in the present moment without distraction even when we know it is a skilful thing to do? This is a simple animation but… Read more »
#tds541 Communication technologies as diminished substitutes
“Most of our communication technologies began as diminished substitutes for an impossible activity. We couldn’t always see one another face to face, so the telephone made it possible to keep in touch at a distance. One is not always home, so the answering machine made a kind of interaction possible without the person being near… Read more »
#tds540 Just say no
We just leave this here for your enjoyment and a daily look in the mirror of mind. Tweet your response to @livedtime and be sure to include the hashtag #tds540
#tds539 Dread the arrival of the bus
“One of the things I’ve learned from doing just a few of the exercises in this book is how hard it to stop being so busy and slow down enough to do the experiments. I don’t want to stop sitting in front of my computer, playing games, reading a book, tending to chickens, tidying the… Read more »
#tds538 Making art is the new meditation
You can read about it or you can make art! Art brings a still mind and engages you in the moment. Artists have known this for centuries, others are just discovering it! Take a selfie showing us what art you made today. Tweet your response to @livedtime and be sure to include the hashtag #tds538
#tds537 Slow down you look too fast!
“When people look slowly at a piece of art they make discoveries. The most important discovery they make is that they can see and experience art without an expert (or expertise). And that’s an exciting discovery. It unlocks passion and creativity and helps to create more art fans.” Slow art day website Read more about slow art… Read more »
#tds536 An espresso for the mind: Blame
“Brene Brown suggests that blame is a way of discharging anger. When we are listening to someone’s story and attempting to make connections to find out who’s to blame then we are not truly listening with empathy.” Watch the video an write 3 stories in your own life where you chose to blame rather than… Read more »
#tds535 Stop procrastinating? Never!
Procrastination is good for you. Today’s daily stillness exercise is to give procrastination a purposeful try. Read this lovely article about how to never feel ashamed about procrastination and then as it suggests ‘find something you would genuinely rather do than your work, something that will engage and gratify your mind and do it at… Read more »
#tds534 Read at Whim
‘He considers pleasure an essential element of reading, and believes we will find more of it if we “Read at Whim.” Note the capital “W.” “In its lower-case version,” he explains, “whim is thoughtless, directionless preference that almost invariably leads to boredom or frustration or both. But Whim is something very different: it can guide us… Read more »
#tds533 Making a life matters
Pico Iyer, author of The art of Stillness, did a talk at the World Government summit titled ‘Stillness in the Digital Age’. The excerpt above is from the summary article on the session. You can read the article today and/or reflect on his closing comment: ‘We rightly think and talk a lot about making a… Read more »
#tds532 Clear you mind, write it down, let it go
We have spoken about the value of automatic writing to clear the mind before here on the Still Web. Well, guess what? The internet has created a wonderful tool to make this even easier. It further helps with developing a higher level of tolerance for impermanence and letting go. Try it out today. We dare… Read more »
