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MARTIN CHALLIS

Month: July 2018

Three Paths

July 25, 2018 / / 1 Comment

 

Inspired by Gil Fronsdal

You have a problem

Do you:
Solve
Resolve or
Dissolve

The problem

Do you Solve through curiousity and critical thinking
Do you Resolve through conversation and humility
Do you Dissolve through forgiveness and acceptance

Three paths
To choose from

Ask: which path requires no force, surrenders control, sets motion in flow and takes you furthest?

This way
Can become
Your preference
And your practice

 

Martinos @ 2018

Pattern Recognition (a process poem)

July 4, 2018 / / 0 Comments


Look deeply
In stillness
At the patterns
You follow

Look for:
Repetition
Habitual rhythms
Fixed beliefs

Choose one
You want to work with

Measure its worth
With one yardstick:
The degree to which
This pattern of thinking brings you
Ease, expansion, benefit and flow.

If you find anything that is opposite of these
Then you almost certainly know
This pattern is less helpful
Perhaps limiting

Now that you see this you can ask:
What more do I need to observe?
What do I need to see that I have not yet seen?
What is the Attachment?

Once you’ve spent time with these questions
observing as an observer and inquiring as an inquirer;
gaining insight through prolonged observation and inquiry

You can then ask yourself

Now that I know what I know and see what I had not before seen,
What will I do with this?
What is the opportunity here for me?
What do I need to let go?
What do I need to let come?

The next step takes courage

Agency and authorship

Yes

Being the change you need to be

Martinos @ 2018

Fire Place

July 1, 2018 / / 0 Comments

for Beau, Mark & Jan

take embers
place them in your memory
and think of the times
when you sat side by side
in friendship,
and with those kindred
stared silently and simply
into a campfire or fire-place
while night’s fortress
held you bound and
kept you wanting
to stay close to
that source
of warmth and light,
held your quietness and focus
with the glow and dance of embers
as they provided their
ancient solace, and
in deepening stillness
how in contemplation together
and in solitude
you found yourself returning
to the hearth at the heart of it all

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