The experience of aging is an exercise in comparison that happens inside of horizontal time. What I mean is that we tell ourselves a story. I am 61 years old. I have sixty-one years of memories. I am older than I was a year ago. Ten years ago I could do X but now I [...]
Archive for December, 2008
Vertical Time
Posted in Aging and Buddhism, tagged aging, buddhism, horizontal time, suzuki roshi, vertical time, zen on December 28, 2008 | Comments Off
Feel What You Feel
Posted in Aging and Buddhism, tagged aging, buddhism, feeling old, mindfulness, seinfeld on December 14, 2008 | Comments Off
The Buddha’s teaching about emotions could be summarized in a single common English phrase, “Feel what you feel.” The technical term, “mindfulness of feeling,” is widely used in Buddhist writing, but I think “Feel what you feel” captures the actual teaching best, particularly because it is phrased in a way that alludes to its opposite, [...]
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Aging As A Spiritual Practice
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Work As A Spiritual Practice
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Healing Lazarus
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A Whole Life's Work
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