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karma police

January 3, 2011

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I subscribe to Ajahn Sujato’s blog and I saw a post linking to this article from the Guardian website about ‘mindfulness meditation’ being made available on the NHS here in the UK. Very interesting. The semi ironic religious fanatic in me scoffed at the mention that ‘mindfulness meditation’ had been ‘pioneered’ in the 70s in the […]

l’ennui

January 3, 2011

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I was in a shopping centre today with my girlfriend, one we’ve been to a few times before. She really likes it there. They do have a great food hall which has a place that does Vietnamese food that we both like. As a good friend of mine pointed out to me a while ago, […]

distractions

January 2, 2011

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I had a scary moment earlier. I used to play guitar incessantly. From the age of about 14 up 29ish it was a major part of my life. I wasn’t bad at it either and even entertained ideas of trying to turn professional at one point. I suppose I was a typical teenager of one […]