What is mindfulness?
Last updated on 3rd November 2011
No man was ever wise by chance. - Lucius Seneca
Yesterday we had the twelfth & final session of this "Life skills" evening class. There was scheduled to have been a bit less than a three month gap since the last - eleventh - session. However the heavy winter snow we'd experienced had resulted in this last session being postponed.
Today we can walk around together, talk, eat, and be silent together. Later I believe we'll have the opportunity to act and suffer together. All that is necessary to 'make someone's acquaintance' as they say. - Rene Daumal
Until lions have their historians, tales of hunting will always glorify the hunter. - African proverb
I wrote yesterday about the first part of this tenth "Life skills" evening. I particularly discussed development of Goodwill practice - very much in the "Nourishing positive states" section of the "Four aspects" diagram (below). In the second half of the evening we moved on to the "Exploring & processing" section of the diagram with the introduction particularly of various forms of therapeutic writing.
The vision must be followed by the venture. It is not enough to stare up the steps - we must step up the stairs. - Vance Havner
If you want others to be happy, practise compassion. If you want to be happy, practise compassion. Dalai Lama
One of the greatest pains to human nature is the pain of a new idea.
- Walter Bagehot
Yesterday was the ninth evening of this "Life skills" training. I wrote about the eighth session last week. The sequence of regular weekly classes now moves on to increasing gaps between sessions - so it's three weeks until the tenth, a further five weeks until the eleventh, and then an additional eleven weeks until the final twelfth session. My hope is that we will be able to arrange occasional follow-up meetings even after that.
What's in the way is the way
- Mary O'Malley
Circumstances are beyond human control, but our conduct is in our own power. - Benjamin Disraeli
Homo sum: humani nil a me alienum puto. I am human, I consider nothing human alien to me.
- Terence
Yesterday we had the sixth session of this twelve evening "Life skills" course. I wrote last week about the fifth session. A dozen slides covering material we explored are viewable/downloadable at slides 1-6, Powerpoint or slides 1-6, PDF and slides 7-12, Powerpoint or slides 7-12, PDF.