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I'm wondering how others found the Second Life experience -- and if anyone who attended Ken's talk at Kannonji Zendo has also participated in talks he's given using the DimDim platform -- how you would compare the two?
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Sam, can you say more about how you produced your "elements" photographs? I'm not asking "how" in a technical sense, but rather wondering what intentions or questions or may have led to the photographs. Or perhaps there was a particular exercise you…
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- Nelson, New Zealand
- Practice level
- mature
- About Me:
- Since Dec 2008 I've been serving as a "community steward" and administrator for this site, working with Tracy Ormond to welcome new members, and actively looking for opportunities to enrich the site. I've been engaged with online Communities of Practice since 2000 and have had the good fortune to study with other facilitators through participation in http://cpsquare.org
Childhood and Family: Born in Athens and early yrs spent in Greece, followed by several yrs living with parents during job assignments in various European countries. Study in the US followed. Met husband in 1983 in Colombia while doing research for a graduate degree in Ecology. Our daughter and son are in their second and last years of university.
Professional life: have lived in the UK, Colombia, Indonesia and New Zealand; started in agroecological research and from there moved into developing and teaching participatory research methods, and most recently into evaluating donor-funded international development interventions and supporting organisations wishing to develop evaluation skills.
Practice: Painful family of origin issues and an encounter with a teacher spurred interest in meditation. After 10 yrs of reading about Buddhism and doing the odd bit of meditation this erratic "practice" hit a wall. This came at a time of other big changes; a family problem led us to resign, after 20 yrs of international work, and immigrate to New Zealand. There opportunities arose to hear teachers from a variety of traditions. I felt drawn to the Tibetan, took refuge and did my first meditation retreat. I met a teacher, helped to set up a centre, organised annual trips to eastern Tibet and began the Ngondro practices. But questions arose about whether this was the right practice setting for me. After much heart searching, I began to look for alternatives and this led to Unfettered Mind. The first encounter was with Google metadata: "For people whose path lies outside established centers and institutions." This really resonated and eventually I made contact despite the great geographical distance. I've been working with Ken for about three years and increasingly, with others in the network.
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- http://abraunw.blogspot.com/
- What brought you to the Unfettered Mind community site?
- A conviction that my path lies outside institutional forms; Interest in connecting with others who are studying and practicing the approaches taught in Wake up to Your Life and Unfettered Mind retreats and classes; a longing to be part of the environments of awareness created by people in this network ...........
Ann Braun's Blog
Tips for getting to the Kannonji Zendo and taking your seat
Posted on December 12, 2009 at 3:30am — 1 Comment
Visualizing the Unfettered Mind Network (Part VI)
Posted on September 9, 2009 at 7:30am — 5 Comments
Supports for practice
These are resources that have touched me deeply as inspiration or instructions for practice:
Relationships and what compromises them:
This framework, presented by Ken McLeod in several podcasts including Relationship and Conflict has proved very useful personally and professionally.
Related to the relationship framework are "the four ways of working": Pacification, Enrichment, Magnetisation and Destruction, which Ken describes and explains in several podcasts including Relationship and Conflict and Warrior's Solution.
For inspiration I return again and again to Stephen Batchelor's 2005 and 2007 talks on the life of the Buddha which can be accessed at Dharma Seed.
For tools to work with those pesky reactive patterns:
Ken's retreat podcasts on Releasing Reactive Emotions
Martine Batchelor's book: Let Go
Other supports:
Nancy White's page on social media
Relationships and what compromises them:
This framework, presented by Ken McLeod in several podcasts including Relationship and Conflict has proved very useful personally and professionally.
Related to the relationship framework are "the four ways of working": Pacification, Enrichment, Magnetisation and Destruction, which Ken describes and explains in several podcasts including Relationship and Conflict and Warrior's Solution.
For inspiration I return again and again to Stephen Batchelor's 2005 and 2007 talks on the life of the Buddha which can be accessed at Dharma Seed.
For tools to work with those pesky reactive patterns:
Ken's retreat podcasts on Releasing Reactive Emotions
Martine Batchelor's book: Let Go
Other supports:
Nancy White's page on social media
Comment Wall (52 comments)
- At 11:40pm on December 15, 2009,
Franklin Cook said… - Ann: Interestingly, I've just begun again with a fresh commitment to my practice, part of which has included listening to Batchelor's 2007 talks on the Buddha's teachings (The Groundless Ground, Going Against the Stream, etc.) and which I'm about to follow with the 2005 talks on the Buddha's life. I actually began with a Pema Chodron audiobook (a gift from two of my children) on Ch. 5 of The Bodhisattva Way of Life. This immersion in the teachings is being very helpful, and although I am challenged by sitting consistently, I'm doing fairly well with my practice, and I've come to see that daily commitment as the most important "goal" I face (and struggle with how difficult such a simple practice really is to establish). In any event, I happened upon your entry, above, as I was trying to find some more information about the Warriors Solution podcast, so I thought I'd drop you a note. FJC
- At 10:10am on December 11, 2009,
Sam Scoggins said… - Thank you Ann. The photos are from a set called Luminous Emptyness and were taken over the last 3 years in the UK, Tibet and the USA. I like to meditate and take photographs.
- At 11:23pm on December 1, 2009,
Greg Littlewood said… - my wife (in the wig) edits the Homeboy Review Literary Magazine, and there was talk of shooting the legend for the cover of the Review
- At 12:57pm on November 28, 2009,
Anne Conn said… - Ann, Thanks for being in touch. I contacted Jesse, and am at work on my first transcript. Best, Anne
- At 8:20am on November 17, 2009,
Rita Frizzell said… - Thank you, Ann, I'll check with Jim.
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