My present brain worm aka words that I keep repeating subconsciously - “There’s nothing to do, there’s nowhere to go” #quotes #words #meditation

My mind keeps wondering a bit too much these days during meditation. Thank goodness I’m also getting good at reining in. Current helpful imagery: popping bubbles (where did that come from?). #meditation #zen

🪷 Buddhistdoor Quote for Today: Padampa Sangye (d. 1117 CE) 🪷

✨ If you first finish what you have to do, you'll never get to the Dharma; People of Tingri, while you're thinking about it, practice straight away. — Padampa Sangye (d. 1117 CE) ✨

🔗 Explore more at BDG: buddhistdoor.net

#Buddhism #Buddha #Dharma #Chod #Tantra #India #Tibet #Nepal #China #Compassion #Mindfulness #Meditation #Wisdom #Awakening

🪷 Buddhistdoor Quote for Today: Padampa Sangye (d. 1117 CE) 🪷

✨ If you first finish what you have to do, you'll never get to the Dharma; People of Tingri, while you're thinking about it, practice straight away. — Padampa Sangye (d. 1117 CE) ✨

🔗 Explore more at BDG: buddhistdoor.net

#Buddhism #Buddha #Dharma #Chod #Tantra #India #Tibet #Nepal #China #Compassion #Mindfulness #Meditation #Wisdom #Awakening

If you’re interested in learning meditation from a Zen master, I highly suggest giving this app a try.

Here's my review of "The Way" meditation training app.

#ZenBuddhism #meditation

https://dudelike.wtf/w/ugrGm67bPaWMmzZZrpfwSr

If you’re interested in learning meditation from a Zen master, I highly suggest giving this app a try.

Here's my review of "The Way" meditation training app.

#ZenBuddhism #meditation

https://dudelike.wtf/w/ugrGm67bPaWMmzZZrpfwSr

#poem I wrote... dedicated to all who are healing from relational trauma.
💔🕯️🌿
---
I release you.
Not because it was okay —
but because I deserve peace.

You hid me.
You left without care.
You expected softness after silence.
I chose myself. I chose the end.

I loved deeply.
That love deserved to be held, not hidden.

You apologized.
But apologies don’t erase the ache of being made invisible.

So today, I cut the cord.
Not to forget — but to reclaim.

I reclaim my time.
I reclaim my softness.
I reclaim my future.

You are no longer the center of my sadness.
You are a chapter I’ve read, cried through, and now close.

I release you.
I release me.
---

5-minute #cordcutting #meditation by Colette Baron-Reid for healing your mental, emotional, and spiritual self while also helping with personal growth and self-love. If ever you need to recover your energy from a situation or person, or just need to repair any of your seven energies in general
https://youtu.be/r_9Skk133y4?si=b6kvLaDXf6OSto6q

Hello! 👋 It’s time for an updated #Introduction because I’ve just moved instances to beige.party (I was formerly @brianlavelle) - any boosts would be most welcome!

I’m Brian, and I’ve been a #Fediverse dweller since April 2022. This is my only social media…er, medium.

In no particular order, I quite like:
#ImprovisedMusic & #ExperimentalMusic
#FieldRecording
#Cats (I have two)
#TTRPG (I have too many)
#Tea
#Meditation
#Books #Poetry & #SpeculativeFiction
#Trees & #Walking (but not #WalkingTrees)
#Modernism & #Brutalism
#SelfHosting & #FOSS
#AltText & #PascalCase / #CamelCase
& lots more

My website: https://brianlavelle.scot
My music: https://brianlavelle.bandcamp.com

#TransRightsAreHumanRights

#Introductions

Hello! 👋 It’s time for an updated #Introduction because I’ve just moved instances to beige.party (I was formerly @brianlavelle) - any boosts would be most welcome!

I’m Brian, and I’ve been a #Fediverse dweller since April 2022. This is my only social media…er, medium.

In no particular order, I quite like:
#ImprovisedMusic & #ExperimentalMusic
#FieldRecording
#Cats (I have two)
#TTRPG (I have too many)
#Tea
#Meditation
#Books #Poetry & #SpeculativeFiction
#Trees & #Walking (but not #WalkingTrees)
#Modernism & #Brutalism
#SelfHosting & #FOSS
#AltText & #PascalCase / #CamelCase
& lots more

My website: https://brianlavelle.scot
My music: https://brianlavelle.bandcamp.com

#TransRightsAreHumanRights

#Introductions

Impromptu midnight meditation session to ground myself and stop spiraling.

Yes it worked. #meditation #mindfulness

Hi folks - I would like to find some accessible beginner friendly guided #zen #meditation practices to try, ideally on YouTube.

Can you recommend any? I have been searching and so many seem to take a wellbeing-coach type approach (eg Headspace) and use zen in the colloquial way....

Thanks!

Wollt ihr...
✨ Philosophische Analysen
✨ Hintergrundgespräche
✨ Themen von #Politik & #Gesellschaft über #Neurowissenschaft, #Ethik & #KI bis hin zu #Meditation & #Weisheit
✨ Inspiration für kritisches Denken
👉 Abonniert #scobel
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nK6CS4rPIXQ

When I first started, I was fairly certain “metta meditation” will not work for me. After all, I’m a bitter person with the self-worth less than a chicken nugget. If self-deprecation was a competitive sport, I’d be an Olympian.

Yet somehow it worked. Those four little sentences made a world of difference, day by day. So much so, I’m tweaking the phrasing, so I can be kinder to myself and others. If anyone else is interested, here’s your daily affirmation and reminder:

May I be safe
May I be peaceful
May I be kind to myself
May I accept myself as I am

May you be safe
May you be peaceful
May you be kind to yourself
May you accept yourself as you are

#meditation #mantra

🗑️ Trash pickup: cheaper than therapy, more existential than you’d think.

MetaFilter gets practical and philosophical about picking up the debris of the world as a hobby.

https://www.metafilter.com/210017/This-was-easier-to-get-into-than-I-thought#8757329

#philosophy #meditation #trash #hobby #bestofmetafilter

🗑️ Trash pickup: cheaper than therapy, more existential than you’d think.

MetaFilter gets practical and philosophical about picking up the debris of the world as a hobby.

https://www.metafilter.com/210017/This-was-easier-to-get-into-than-I-thought#8757329

#philosophy #meditation #trash #hobby #bestofmetafilter

happy to keep connected, always happy to discuss Snowdrift.coop @snowdrift and related crowdmatching, funding, etc

and glancing at your other interests, #Buddhism and #meditation all very much aligned with my other focus, FLO-Conscious-Living https://codeberg.org/FLO-Conscience/Conscious-Living

not to mention Portland area etc.

Cheers

🪷 The Zen of Forgetting 🪷

today is one of those where you solve long-standing intellectually challenging problems, with intricate requirements and nested dependent stages with a matrices of ways in which everything could go immediately back to being broken, but everything was smooth..

and afterwards you can't quite remember how the entire thing was resolved, because it's been going on for so long with full cognitive flow, those perfect meditative hours in the terminal..

and the internal voice says, "hmm, well, revision control will know the before and after, so the middle part isn't important." 🤷

and then you move on 😌

#programming #engineering #meditation #work

🪷 The Zen of Forgetting 🪷

today is one of those where you solve long-standing intellectually challenging problems, with intricate requirements and nested dependent stages with a matrices of ways in which everything could go immediately back to being broken, but everything was smooth..

and afterwards you can't quite remember how the entire thing was resolved, because it's been going on for so long with full cognitive flow, those perfect meditative hours in the terminal..

and the internal voice says, "hmm, well, revision control will know the before and after, so the middle part isn't important." 🤷

and then you move on 😌

#programming #engineering #meditation #work

💗 Tuesday PsyTrance 💗

There's an entire album, from all the way back in 2018, which exemplifies a canonical example of perfectly designed patterns and focused, driving beats which have defined the PsyTech sub-genre ever since.

It also features some of the best and most appropriately sci-fi / zen audio samples used since the mid-2010s. The descriptives on it are effectively precise:

> The purest of progressive vibes are invoked by expertly crafted sonic palettes, laying comfortably on raging basslines, rhythms and pulsating arpeggios.. haunting yet beautiful vocals that lead you dreamily into another dimension; filled with mystical pads and stabs; killer percussive patterns, fierce synthesizer lines, breathtaking ethnic instruments and mind blowing vocals. It pierces the soul, infiltrates the mind & body, elevates our energetic field and unites us as listeners...

Artist: Mindbenderz
Album: Tribalism
Purchase (IONO): https://ionomusic.bandcamp.com/album/tribalism
Streaming (soundcloud): https://soundcloud.com/mindbenderz/sets/mindbenderz-tribalism
Beatport: https://www.beatport.com/release/tribalism/2414293
Spotify: it's on there too!

While we're at it... they're follow-up album "Cosmic Package" deserves an equally attentive listen, especially if they're combined into one back to back playlist.
- https://ionomusic.bandcamp.com/album/cosmic-package

#psytrance #music #edm #progressive #trance #electronic #focus #meditation #streaming

Love this passage in Natalie Goldberg’s Writing Down the Bones. Captured perfectly.

“Writers live twice. They go along with their regular life, are as fast as anyone in the grocery store, crossing the street, getting dressed for work in the morning. But there's another part of them that they have been training. The one that lives everything a second time. That sits down and sees their life again and goes over it. Looks at the texture and details.”

#writing #reflection #meditation #observation