Showing posts with label Pema Chodron. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Pema Chodron. Show all posts

Wednesday, December 13, 2017

Today, embrace the no money-back guarantee ....

'all at sea ...'day#27 of my dailydress1 journal (2011)*

“Awakening is not a process of building ourselves up but a process of letting go. It’s a process of relaxing in the middle—the paradoxical, ambiguous middle, full of potential, full of new ways of thinking and seeing—with absolutely no money-back guarantee of what will happen next.” 

In 2011 I started my first 'dailydress' journal.  Inspired buy the Sketchbook Project I started filling a moleskin sketchbook with a collage with an origami dress.  In fact the beginning of this blog shows the different pages of this journal.  And here is what I wrote about it on my art blog:
For this journal I create a page from some detritus that comes to me during the course of the day ~ a receipt, a paper bag, packing material, whatever catches my fancy; that is be the starting point. Then I build the page around that element and eventually I add an origami dress. Sometime the dress is large, sometimes small; one time the dress isn't even there, you get the idea. (link to full blog post)
It is interesting that I picked this image for today's post as I am 'struggling' with this feeling of groundlessness.  Lately I have felt pulled in so many directions I feel completely off balance and when I'm feeling adrift I tend to go back to my art.  And in fact I have been feeling a great pull to make another 'dailydress' journal?!??! so stay tune to see what happens ...
peace

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Tuesday, February 2, 2016

may this dress dress bring us an environment conducive to loving-kindness!!

today, let us create seeds of happiness!! XXX
'persephone's dress ...' 
Everything is material for the seed of happiness, if you look into it with inquisitiveness and curiosity. The future is completely open, and we are writing it moment to moment. There always is the potential to create an environment of blame -- or one that is conducive to loving-kindness.
- Pema Chodron



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Wednesday, August 20, 2014

May this dress WAKE us UP . . .

to the beauty and wonders that surround us, always . . . . peace

'from the ground up . . .' 7aug14, 74F, 5:10pm
We don't sit in meditation 
to become good meditators. 

We sit in meditation so that 
we'll become more awake in our lives.
 Pema Chodron


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Monday, April 7, 2014

May this dress remind us to accept every lovely part of ourselves!!!


"Compassion isn't some kind of self-improvement project or ideal that we're trying to live up to. Having compassion starts and ends with having compassion for all those unwanted parts of ourselves, all those imperfections that we don't even want to look at."
 Pema Chodron

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