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Meditation

Spirituality, A Personal View – Part II

April 22, 2023August 12, 2021 by Thomas Schenk

Exploring spiritual otherness…

Categories Free, Meditation, Uncategorized 1 Comment

Spirituality, A Personal View – Part I

December 20, 2024July 8, 2021 by Thomas Schenk

Transforming life’s noise into life’s music…

Categories Free, Meditation, Taoism, Uncategorized 1 Comment

Reading a Spiritual Text

April 22, 2023May 6, 2021 by Thomas Schenk

Hopping into a spiritual text…

Categories Free, Meditation, Taoism 1 Comment

Contemplation and Meditation

May 7, 2023March 5, 2020 by Thomas Schenk

Distinguishing two forms of mindfulness…

Categories Free, Meditation, Uncategorized 1 Comment

The Spider as a Spiritual Symbol

May 3, 2026October 3, 2019 by Thomas Schenk

Entanglement and liberation, thoughts on the spider and its web…

Categories Free, Meditation 9 Comments

Retirement Account

April 22, 2023February 14, 2019 by Thomas Schenk

Thoughts on the resource that grows in being spent…

Categories Free, Meditation, Uncategorized Leave a comment

Calming the Waters

December 11, 2018November 8, 2018 by Daniel Scharpenburg

Sailing beyond the winds of desire…

Categories Buddhism, Free, Meditation Tags calm, han shan, zen Leave a comment

Heroic Mindfulness

May 7, 2023October 11, 2018 by Thomas Schenk

Some thoughts on finding our way through the labyrinth of these times…

Categories Compassion, Free, Meditation, Philosophy/Wisdom 1 Comment

The Perfect View

April 28, 2025March 29, 2018 by Thomas Schenk

Having a perfect view — for free…

Categories Free, Meditation, Practices & Ritual, Uncategorized 1 Comment
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