Reflections on Don’t Stop Thinking About Tomorrow One of the pleasures of growing older is discovering unexpected connections between different parts of life. My wife and I met at university during the 1960s, so our home is often filled with the music of that era. One day, listening to Fleetwood Mac’s Don’t Stop, I found Read More
Tag: Haiku
Stillness Haiku | The Pebble-Walking Meditation
Reflection On Walking Meditation During one of my early morning walking meditation sessions around the fields of the Cotswolds, I found myself reflecting on the Mental Discipline section of the Noble Eightfold Path. The image that came to mind was a still pond. When the surface of the water is calm, even the smallest pebble Read More
Stillness Haiku | Buddhism and Ageing
Reflection on Buddhism and Ageing As a child I remember wishing time away. School holidays seemed endless, birthdays took forever to arrive and adulthood felt impossibly distant. Now the years seem to pass with astonishing speed. Yet instead of resisting that change, my Buddhist practice has gradually helped me accept it. Impermanence is no longer Read More
Stillness Haiku| Mindfulness in Nature
Mindfulness in nature can be observed as well as experienced. Try watching a heron standing like a statue, a hawk hovering above a prey, a nervous deer in long grass.
Stillness Haiku|The Empty Cushion
After meditation the room appears unchanged, yet something has shifted within. This haiku reflects the quiet transformation that can arise through Buddhist practice, long after the candle has been extinguished and the incense has faded. “Incense slowly fades-only the empty cushionknows where I have been”From “Stillness | Moments of Buddhist Practice in Verse” "Stillness is Read More