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Nature’s Elements: A Journey of Self-Discovery
Following on from my last post one reader raised a point that gave me the idea to explore the elements in a more detailed way. I wrote of sensuality in my life and how I use the sensual nature of my body to reinforce my connection with myself and the web of life. EARTH The…
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Sensuality
Unlike the other three elements air is the one we cannot see but it is the most intimate and essential of the four. If my brain is deprived of oxygen for two minutes it begins to die. Each breath that I take is a gift from the air, it penetrates deep into my body and…
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Do you see me?
It’s just near the winter solstice and the earth is cold, it’s been an incredibly wet autumn and early winter and even though the land slopes towards the river there is a slick of water running through the grass. My bare heel touches the soil and due to the muddy nature of everything it sinks…
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Love
Half a lifetime ago I was on a 15 day Buddhist retreat and during that retreat I had a deep personal insight into my own being. Without going into the detail I realised that at my core and the core of every other being is what I can only describe as a seed or kernel…
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Never too old!
I’m just past my 75th time around the sun, where has all this time gone? It’s not unusual to think that it’s all over and there is nothing to contribute so late in life but that is not my way. “I like being old” How often do you hear that said? our society seems to…
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Just Pay Attention!
“Yesterday is a memory, Tomorrow is unknown. Now is the Knowing” These are the words of Ajahn Sumedho the abbot of Amaravati Buddhist Center that he gave during a talk. What he meant by this is that our memories are often full of regret and criticism and our projection of the future can be full…
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I am Spirit
So are you, well that’s my belief….whatever your belief, religion or if you have no faith at all the reality is that there is something inside of us that animates us. What do you call it? Quoting from the website of Aubrey Marcus. You have been built up from nothing by the spare parts of…
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Stillness in activity?
I’ve just been on a seven day druid retreat and it’s been quite a revelation. A druid friend who was also on the retreat said to me before I went that it would be nothing like any retreat that I had done before. Since I was 36 I have been fortunate enough to be able…
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Spot the changes
Where I live in Ardnamurchan the house is located in what the Scots would call a “wee glen”. The land to the east rises steeply to about 350 metres and to the west although not so steep we are still sheltered from the worst of the weather which comes predominately from the west. Whilst in…
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Slow on the uptake?
Sometimes I can be a bit thick, rather slow on the uptake. What I am referring to is with regard to matters of a spiritual nature. I’m going to a Druid retreat shortly and have offered to lead an afternoon centred around a very old Yew tree. Planning how this would work out it fits…
Muddy Feet 