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Half of Us Have Felt It: Spiritual Awakening and the Women Who Wrote It Down

The Wisdom of Impermanence Podcast with Margaret Meloni

#Buddhism #Dharma #Dhamma #Podcast #Impermanence #Change #Equanimity #Wisdom #Spirituality #Mindfulness #Liberation #Acceptance

Half of Us Have Felt It: Spiritual Awakening and the Women Who Wrote It Down

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3rik 2d ago

"These are meditations on impermanence...", it says in the liner notes, with an explanation following. So, Buddhist noise (there's an Buddha statue in the artwork)? Slowly moving, most of the time, sounding like everything is torn apart (especially the third meditation). It has some Haters-esque qualities. Obliviously, I love it.

Decondition - Meditations on Impermanence

https://satatuhatta.bandcamp.com/album/meditations-on-impermanence

#Decondition #noise #tape #experimental #Impermanence

The Skeptic's Kaddish 2d ago

After the rainfall, or: Before shutters rise

A Tanka–Shadorma conversation

after the rainfall
water gathers in the cracks
of worn limestone steps;
throughout all the passing years
sandals polish them brighterblocked alley
rainwater darkens
the slick stones
behind wires
Jerusalem sand settles
untouched by footstepsdetour signs flutter
above puddled gravel lanes
near the light rail tracks;
children weave through commuters
as though the route always fitoffice shoes
face a spray-painted
barrier
phone map glows
beside a sudden dead-end
under cranesbench by the crosswalk
a man folds his newspaper
to guide some tourists;
their brief laughter disappears
into the market chaoskiosks close
plastic bags flutter
in gutters
voices fade
softening splintered wood grain
before shutters rise

W3 poetry prompt

For last week’s W3 prompt, Reena encourages us to combine a Western poetic form with a Japanese poetry form. In this poem, I used alternating tankas and shadormas to create a conversation about continuity, disruption, and the fleeting ways people adapt and connect within a changing Jerusalem.

The tankas draw on the older Japanese tradition’s sensitivity to continuity, impermanence, and everyday human connection, while the more modern shadormas respond in a sharper, more skeptical voice, focusing on interruption, disorientation, and the fragile traces people leave behind.

Let’s write poetry together!

When it comes to partnership, some humans can make their lives alone – it’s possible. But creatively, it’s more like painting: you can’t just use the same colours in every painting. It’s just not an option. You can’t take the same photograph every time and live with art forms with no differences.

–Ben Harper (b. 1969)

Would you like to create poetry with me and have a completed poem of yours featured here at the Skeptic’s Kaddish? I am very excited to have launched the ‘Poetry Partners’ initiative and am looking forward to meeting and creating with you… Check it out!

#Adaptation #Continuity #Impermanence #Jerusalem #Poem #Poetry #Resilience #Shadorma #Tanka #Transience #W3

Buddhistdoor Global (BDG)5d ago

BDG Feature: Impermanence, It Is Only Natural

🔗 Read more: https://tinyurl.com/muhh6sud

#Buddhism #Acceptance #BuddhistPractice #Change #Equanimity #Flowers #Gratitude #Impermanence #LovingKindness #Mindfulness #Resilience #Tranquility

Buddhistdoor Global (BDG)May 26

BDG Feature: A World of Weeds and Mud

🔗 Read more: https://tinyurl.com/ds78ascy

#Buddhism #Homesteading #Impermanence #Change #Buddha #FourNobleTruths #Happiness #VegetablePatch #Gardening

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SydneyJim May 24

Ikebana reflects many principles associated with #Zen aesthetics: simplicity, #impermanence, incompleteness, & direct observation of #natural form. Rather than overwhelming abundance, a few carefully positioned branches or flowers create balance & tension within empty space. The practitioner learns restraint instead of excess. #Attention sharpens through careful observation of line, texture, proportion, & the changing life of organic material itself over time. (4/15)

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SydneyJim May 24

Ikebana, the #Japanese art of flower arrangement, is often misunderstood as decoration alone. In practice, it trains perception, restraint, balance, asymmetry, spatial #awareness, & sensitivity to #impermanence. Every branch angle, empty space, curve, & placement matters. The practitioner must observe carefully rather than arrange impulsively. Silence, posture, breath, & concentration naturally emerge through the process of attentive creation & disciplined simplicity. (3/15)

SydneyJim May 24

In #HadakaShizenyoku, removing all clothing & practicing #Naked symbolises shedding material attachments & ego, facilitating a deeper connection with my true being & the universe.

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#Mukyōhō #ZenBuddhism #NonDuality #Impermanence #Nude #JimNaked #NoClothes #ClothesFree #JimNude

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SydneyJim May 24

Theravada #Buddhism, common in places such as Thailand & Sri Lanka, divides #meditation into samatha & vipassana. Samatha develops stable concentration, usually through attention on breathing or a simple object. Vipassana examines thoughts, sensations, emotions, & bodily experience as constantly changing processes. The purpose is not comfort but clear observation of #impermanence & reactive behaviour. #Awareness becomes sharper, steadier, & less controlled by impulse. (3/16)

shonin May 23

nothing can stand still

Nothing can stand still. If it were to do so
absolutely, I could not see it; if I
were to cease scanning, I could not then see;

therefore change is all. These were my thoughts
as I walked a dog, watching my year run down.
Apples were falling; I chose one to eat.

Hips blushed fiercely; I stuffed my pockets full.
Ash and maple and willow turned and turned.
Restless mice and voles risked their all

for seeds. We reached the river; a trout rose, an
osprey plunged; they met and flew as one.
An osprey will turn a trout head first in flight,

you know -- for improved aerodynamics. I
disbelieve it; surely the bird is kind.
It turns the trout to show it what's to come.

-- shonin #poetry #impermanence