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About | George Draffan
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George Draffan helps clients explore the dynamic connections between the environment, the economy, and politics. Since 1990 George has served as a research consultant to public interest organizations and community groups, producing hundreds of corporate profiles, power maps of political influence, and analyses of industrial sectors, global production chains, and the environmental and economic impacts of globalization. He also offers writing and editing. He also teaches meditation and tai chi.
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Natural Awareness Blog: BGR Walk to Feed the Hungry
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Wednesday, August 20, 2014. BGR Walk to Feed the Hungry. Do you have enough to eat? Many people do not! Please help alleviate hunger by contributing online. Bhikkhu Bodhi, one of the great translators of Buddhist sutras, founded Buddhist Global Relief. For the past three years, I've helped organize the annual Walk to Feed the Hungry event in Seattle. (There are also walks this year in Houston, Los Angeles, New York, San Francisco, St. Louis, and other cities. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). Buddhist ...
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Natural Awareness Blog: Tips for moving with awareness
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Tuesday, May 6, 2014. Tips for moving with awareness. Connect soft feet and firm ground. Let weight go be supported by the ground. Legs rooting down head floating up. Connect two hands, two feet, top of head, belly. Moving begins in belly and feet. Spine from crown to tailbone relaxing, curving, flexing. Joints open, easy, swinging. Gently mix together breathing and moving. Breathing whole body belly, spine, limbs. Breathing, filling and emptying soft belly. Exhaling fully, naturally.
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Natural Awareness Blog: 3 marks
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Tuesday, July 8, 2014. All conditioned things are impermanent.". Everything is changing; every experience or phenomenon, no matter how dear or pleasant or seemingly reliable, is impermanent; it doesn't last long. This is heartbreaking, but it's also freeing. All conditioned things are suffering.". No experience is ultimately or completely or forever satisfying. Once we know and accept this, we can be compassionate and responsive (responsible) to ourselves and others. All things are not-self.".
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The Buddhist Hospice Trust Blog: August 2010
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The Buddhist Hospice Trust Blog. Compassionate Care and Spiritual Support for seriously ill, dying and bereaved people, their families, friends and carers. The Trust is a free and autonomous association of Buddhists from all Traditions and Schools, open to everyone. A UK-Registered Charity No 298859. Tuesday, August 17, 2010. Death - preparation is the key. Here's an interesting article. On why, with a few useful tips on how. It's written for nurses, but it takes two to tango when end-of-life beckons.
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Natural Awareness Blog: The Importance of Community by Julia King Tamang
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Monday, March 31, 2014. The Importance of Community by Julia King Tamang. And those of you who do not have a strong community nearby, practice cultivating one, day by day by day, small act by small act. As Julia suggests, by the time you really need it, it will be too late to start building. KCC has faults and struggles like all human communities. But over and over I see and value what we do for each other. Sangha is indeed a refuge. If your challenges are deep enough, you will be glad to hav...Associate...
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Natural Awareness Blog: Cooperating
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Wednesday, July 22, 2015. W]e are not struggling to become something we are not. We are learning to cooperate with what we always were.". John Makransky, Awakening Through Love. Your comment will be published (unless inappropriate), but if you want a reply, please send your comment directly to george@naturalawareness. You may also send questions or comments to me directly if you do not want them published in the blog. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). View my complete profile.
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Natural Awareness Blog: Insight #1 - Impermanence
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Friday, March 14, 2014. Insight #1 - Impermanence. Just notice, as often as you can, that each and every experience arises, is here for a while, and then disappears. Just that simple. But really take in the reality of impermanence. Recognize constant change in the thinking mind, feel it in the feeling heart, know it in the sensing body. Experience (and every thing or phenomena) does. That is the basic nature of every thing. Let the implications of the fact that everything is changing sink deep into your ...
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Natural Awareness Blog: Exaggeration
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Thursday, December 18, 2014. Complication, proliferation, objectification. The tendency of the mind to proliferate issues from the sense of "self." This term can also be translated as self-reflexive thinking, reification, falsification, distortion, elaboration, or exaggeration. From A Glossary of Pali and Buddhist Terms. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). Buddhist meditation and Taoist energy practices at NaturalAwareness.net. Research and writing services at GeorgeDraffan.net. View my complete profile.
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