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Poem By David Whyte For John O'Donohue, music Secret Garden, voice M.J. Hummingway

Background, context, and full text: https://www.brainpickings.org/2016/04/11/david-whyte-vulnerability/

Excerpted from https://soundcloud.com/onbeing/david-whyte-the-conversational-nature-of-reality

Photograph by Nicol Ragland

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David Whyte reads "Vulnerability"

A Blessing for One Who Is Exhausted (John O'Donohue)

Kabat-Zinn makes it clear that the essence of meditative practice lies in how one lives one's life from moment to moment, in all its aspects and relationships, and not merely in formal meditative practices. This program offers an experience of mindfulness that is entirely congruent with our lives in the 21st Century: it is effective, portable, and easily adopted -- a perfect antidote to life in the fast lane. The full download and CE credits are available at https://www.betterlisten.com/collections/continuing-education-credits/products/mindfulness-meditation-in-everyday-life-exercises-and-meditations

Mindfulness Meditation In Everyday Life

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Poem text and context: https://www.brainpickings.org/2017/04/03/working-together-david-whyte/
Excerpted from https://soundcloud.com/onbeing/sets/david-whyte-the-conversational

Photograph by Nicol Ragland

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David Whyte reads "Working Together"

Autumn Light 
An improvisational piano and classical guitar piece. Featuring a distant sounding ambient piano sound, a Yamaha electro classical nylon guitar and a couple of vsti synthesizers

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Autumn Light

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Read by Byron Katie, Stephen Mitchell, and Pete Simonelli

Internationally acclaimed bestselling author Byron Katie’s most anticipated work since Loving What Is.

In A Mind at Home with Itself, Byron Katie illuminates one of the most profound ancient Buddhist texts, The Diamond Sutra (newly translated by distinguished scholar Stephen Mitchell) to reveal the nature of the mind and to liberate us from painful thoughts, using her revolutionary system of self-inquiry called “The Work.” Byron Katie doesn’t merely describe the awakened mind; she empowers us to see it and feel it, in action. At once startlingly fresh and powerfully enlightening, A Mind at Home with Itself offers us a transformative new perspective on life and death and is certain to become a classic. 

In the midst of a normal American life, Byron Katie became increasingly depressed and over a ten-year period sank further into despair and suicidal thoughts. Then one morning in 1986 she woke up in a state of absolute joy, filled with the realization of how her own suffering had ended. The freedom of that realization has never left her. Its direct result, The Work, has helped millions of people all over the world to question their stressful thoughts and set themselves free from suffering.

A MIND AT HOME WITH ITSELF by Byron Katie

Life abounds in the exotic and beautiful rainforests of Sulawesi - one of the largest islands in the Indonesian archipeligo. Here time has stood still, revealing the evolution of nature through a unique diversity of birds and animals.

In humid lowlands we hear fruit pigeons, orioles, monarch flycatchers and a magnificent pair of hornills. Further inland, hill forests reach deep into the remote heart of the island. The booming calls of imperial pigeons carry across the valleys, squirrels call from high in the canopy and the eerie voices of piping crows echo through the forests.

We climb high into the mountains, the realm of the cloud forests. Flocks of birds move through the forest calling in the morning sunshine. Finally, night falls on a land where mystery and the unusual are everywhere - Sulawesi.

'Sulawesi - Heart of the Indonesian Rainforest'- album sample

This podcast offers a beautiful opportunity to be in silent sitting and prayer with Moojibaba. The guidance is immediate and simple and we find ourself in the deep silence of our true nature, resting as the pure consciousness of being.

“It is the attention that bears witness that This is. May what we call our lives be in perfect alignment with you, Father. May our attention and minds never drift away from the glory of God. Let our conscious at-one-ment with God — let this be our life."

25 March 2018

Music: "Glory to God" by Siddhartha

David Whyte reads "Working Together"

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