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fredag, februar 21, 2014

God læsning, 2014-02-21, "Sometimes when I sit in silence ..."

Vi er nok alle bekendt med variationer i hvordan vi oplever vores daglige bønsperioder. Carl McColman, som før drev "The website of unknowing", beskriver i denne artikel følgende slags dage i hans bønspraksis:


  • Sometimes when I sit in silence, I’m not really very silent.
  • Sometimes when I sit in silence, I encounter a similar dance between my thoughts and the silence, but during these times I find lovely, rich moments of sheer presence, between the chatter and the emotions.
  • Sometimes when I sit in silence I relax deeply. 
  • Sometimes when I sit in silence my mind is buzzing with creative ideas.
  • Sometimes when I sit in silence I do what my Buddhist friends call “forgetting the instructions”.
  • Sometimes when I sit in silence it all really seems to click.
  • Sometimes when I sit in silence I seem to find a path through all of the above.