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Alistair Appleton
Nov 16, 20103 min read
The knotty issue of focus
It comes up again and again in our classes, so I thought it might be worth jotting down a few thoughts about focus. Doing this a hundred...
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Alistair Appleton
Oct 4, 20103 min read
Kick-Ass Mindfulness
Earlier this year I took up kickboxing. It was in the middle of a very grim and gloomy February when I was struggling with lots of demons...
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Alistair Appleton
Sep 29, 20102 min read
Joanna Macy, “World as Lover, World as Self”
Of course, even when you see the world as a trap and posit a fundamental separation between liberation of self and transformation of...
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Alistair Appleton
Sep 25, 20101 min read
Jeanette Winterson
Do you wake up as I do, having forgotten what it is that hurts or where, until you move? There is a second of consciousness that is clean...
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Alistair Appleton
Sep 17, 20101 min read
I am de-militarizing my mind
I am de-militarizing my mind, taking down the barbed-wire strand by strand. There is or was barely a surface unmined but gently I am...
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Alistair Appleton
Aug 30, 20102 min read
1952, John Cage and the ‘sound of silence’
There were – not one, but two articles on the ‘nada’ sound in this month’s London Review of Books. One, an article by Jenni Diski on...
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Alistair Appleton
Aug 25, 20101 min read
A Rumi quote
This Rumi quote seems to encapsulate how wonderful the mindfulness was on Holy Island last week. Out beyond ideas of wrong doing and...
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