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Attuning to a place, a person (human or otherwise) or even one's own being calls for an open and receptive state of mind. It is an effortless yet fragile state that can easily be shattered by internal or external distractions. While distractions can't always be avoided, there are ways to reduce their effect. One of the ways is the practice of meditation. | Attuning to a place, a person (human or otherwise) or even one's own being calls for an open and receptive state of mind. It is an effortless yet fragile state that can easily be shattered by internal or external distractions. While distractions can't always be avoided, there are ways to reduce their effect. One of the ways is the practice of meditation. | ||
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- | Meditation is an exercise in pausing; in recognising the imperative of a pause to transform instinctive reaction into considered response. Attune to a situation before intervening in it. Without the impulse to instantly react, meditators become acquainted with the mental and corporeal processes that colour their habitual reflexes. Processes that eventually disappear if they' | + | |
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- | Quieting down and being still activates attention to phenomena that are too quiet, too big or small, too quick or slow to notice while going about the business of the everyday. An ant carrying food to its mates. A hesitant silence of a child. The gradual accummulation of a landfill. A dead leaf performing its last dance on a chilly breeze. When the only thing to do is do nothing at all, the world reveals itself in all of its delicious detail. The textures of sound, colours, patterns, scents and movements become clearer, more vivid and animate. | + | |
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- | While meditation is best trained in stillness, the meditative state is accessible at any speed and in the noisiest environments imaginable. Landscapes and cityscapes become sacred mandalas, attuning the rhythms of the body to the lay of the land. Noticing the interaction between the soles of the feet with the sharp angles of rocks or sidewalks. Following the adjustment of bones and muscles while changing posture in response to the slipperiness of sand or oil stains. | + | |
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- | Meditating while engaging with the world is an experiment in focused unfocusing. Attending to the whole experience without prioritising anything. This isn't necessarily pleasant. The practitioner can end up attuning to a destructive landslide, or a brook clogged by plastic bags. While human instinct in such situations might be to overflow with fear or rage and react impulsively, | + | |
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- | In a forest, I have felt many times over that it was not I who looked at the forest. Some days I felt that the trees were looking at me, were speaking to me.... I was there, listening.... I think that the painter must be penetrated by the universe and not want to penetrate it.... I expect to be inwardly submerged, buried. Perhaps I paint to break out. | + | |
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