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#Stillness and Quietude

Tuesday, October 7, 2025

Posted on October 6, 2025
in #Stillness and Quietude, #Stillness and Solitude, Awareness, Meditation, Spirituality
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The Buddha Blessing, Tokyo, Japan Most of our fears are rooted in the truth that we are born alone and we die alone. Our aloneness is real. There are certain moments when we become aware that we are beings with ego that separates us from other ego beings. We are not certain where we come from and where we are going. How do we confront this fearful emotion? We face it by confronting it in silence so that we may rise above our separate ego self and get closer to our true self—the infinite collective consciousness of our being.   By now with the help of meditation and journaling, you may realize that perhaps as an individual person you may feel alone, but at the level of your essence you are one with...

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Thursday, October 2, 2025

Posted on October 1, 2025
in #Nature Lover, #Stillness and Quietude, #Stillness and Solitude, Awareness, Spirituality
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What is it that you do in which you completely immerse yourself? Reading, baking, gardening, knitting, painting? When you are absorbed in an activity, does it feel like nothing else exists? When you are intensely focused on something you truly are by yourself.  Try this. When you are completely engrossed in doing something for an hour or two and you have the need to go to the bathroom, as you walk away from the place you were seated in, become aware of how focused you were a few moments ago, and how you continue to be so for a few more minutes. Sense the spaciousness around you and peace within. This is the feeling that you were not aware just a minute ago. You were immersed deep in your aware self,...

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Tuesday, September 30, 2025

Posted on September 29, 2025
in #Stillness and Quietude, Meditation, Meditation & Journaling at Ashby Ponds
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When I began the practice of meditation, more than thirty years ago, it was the toughest discipline to follow. It required sitting still in silence, focusing on the breath and bringing attention back to breathing over and over again. But in time I found it one of the most rewarding practices.  I discovered that there was a subtle difference between meditation and sitting still in silence and solitude. In breathing practice the flotsams and jetsam of my mind settled down and by the time all the debris had quietened down my body was still.  When I was still and by myself I contemplated about the meaning of my life. And I contemplated about current situations. Without silence, solitude did not mean much. I could be alone but listening to music, surfing the...

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Tuesday, September 23, 2025

Posted on September 22, 2025
in #Stillness and Quietude, #Stillness and Solitude
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Spending some time with myself makes the time I spend with others more pleasurable and playful. For me, like nourishment solitude is one of the basic necessities. When I’m alone, self-enquiry comes under focus. In silence, I mull over whatever is floating in my mind. More often than not, I realize whatever recent wrong happened had not much to do with her, him, or them, but with me. The negativity feel is ultimately a reflection of my own inner landscape. Slowly the thought settles and I’m back to my normal self. Only in silence can I mull over things and be fair to myself and others. When you sit still quietly, pondering what you have encountered, how it has affected you, and how you have affected others as the consequence of your...

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