From over fifteen years of sharing her understanding of Buddhist concepts
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Eightfold Path: Spacious Effort
Imagine a bird soaring in the sky, held aloft by the air currents. Spacious effort is like that. Out of a sense of connection with all that is, we are held aloft, so that we are not alone and solely responsible to carry the weight of the world upon our shoulders or push a boulder…
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Eightfold Path: Spacious Intention
In our last exploration of the Eightfold Path two years ago, I said that Right or Wise Intention is the way we keep our spacious view from becoming spacey. But can there be such a thing as spacious intention? Intention clarifies, takes us out of the fog or miasma of our amorphous thoughts and emotions…
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Eightfold Path: Spacious* View
* In this exploration of the Eightfold Path, we are seeing how the use of the word ‘spacious’ instead of ‘right’ or ‘wise’ affects our understanding. Please see the previous post ‘Spacious Eightfold Path’, January 13, 2011 for an explanation of why this seemed a worthy exploration. In conversation we might say “In my view…”…
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The Spacious Eightfold Path
In the summer we studied the First and Second Noble Truth, and then the Third in September. We decided to hold off looking at the Fourth, the Eightfold Path, until the beginning of the year because it works so well with New Year’s feelings of new beginnings and setting intention. We first encountered the Eightfold…
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Noticing: Enzyme Action for Emotion
Last week we experimented with expressing our thoughts in a very present conscious way, a rather stilted awkward way, almost quoting our thoughts as we noticed them. By setting these thoughts off in quotations, we remind ourselves that we are not the thoughts. Today I’d like to do the same thing with emotion. In our…
STEPHANIE NOBLE 