From over fifteen years of sharing her understanding of Buddhist concepts
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Wise Speech Depends on Engaged Listening
The greatest compliment that was ever paid me was when one asked me what I thought, and attended to my answer. – Henry David Thoreau Last week we explored the various qualities of silence and learned how to develop a deep loving connected sense of silence that allows us to hear the patterns of our…
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Wise Speech arises out of silence
Wise Speech rests in and arises out of a spacious peaceful, deeply connected silence. So I want to begin our exploration of of this aspect of the Buddha’s Eightfold Path with that silence. In class we rested in the silence of our meditation on a foggy morning that lent a cozy muffled silence to our…
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Bonus ‘Wise Action’ posts on this blog
Over the past five years I have taught the Buddha’s Eightfold Path three times, so if you are interested in reading more, here are some other posts on this blog about Wise Action. And here’s one that wasn’t included in the previous linked group, titled Even bad habits don’t deserve to be kicked!
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Ours is not a caravan of despair
Come, come, whoever you are, Wanderer, worshiper, lover of leaving, Ours is not a caravan of despair. Even if you have broken your vow a hundred times, Come, come again. — Jalal ad-din Muhammad Rumi, 13th century poet and Sufi mystic Ours is not a caravan of despair! Why? Because we carry within us an…
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Wise Action Keeps Us Moving
At the core of Wise Action is the felt sense of our physical bodies moving through space. So often we go mindless as we move about, distracted by thoughts, sights and other multitasking activities. Is this wise? Think about some time when you had an accident while moving your body (or a vehicle) through space.…
STEPHANIE NOBLE 