Dear Friends,<\/p>\n
In the spirit of Andrea Fella’s seventh talk<\/a> from the Daily Life Practice Retreat, I’m going to keep this simple.<\/p>\n Her advice to the participants\u00a0was to simplify things as part of\u00a0their retreat week. The question she suggested they consider was:\u00a0“is this necessary?”<\/p>\n In our daily lives, we have to think. But sometimes we do stuff that’s “extra”. Andrea F encourages us to\u00a0question whether\u00a0a certain train of thought (e.g. planning a future vacation) is necessary right now.<\/p>\n Another of her suggestions included cutting back on one’s consumption of media (radio, TV, internet, etc.), since that’s often a way we tend to get lost. So you can first question: is this necessary? And if you do decide to engage in some media, then she advises to really notice how it impacts you. Can you be present for that? How does it make you feel? And then can you notice how it feels when you turn it off?<\/p>\n A few weeks ago, Jeanne talked about renunciation<\/a> as one of the qualities we can develop as we move toward a greater wisdom. Renunciation doesn’t have to mean deprivation and suffering. Instead it can have this quality of simplicity, of lightness\u00a0and freedom.<\/p>\n Perhaps you want to play with this today or over the next few days:<\/p>\n I’m interested to hear your reflections and observations. Feel free to reply by email or post below.<\/p>\n With best wishes, Dear Friends, In the spirit of Andrea Fella’s seventh talk from the Daily Life Practice Retreat, I’m going to keep this simple. Her advice to the participants\u00a0was to simplify things as part of\u00a0their retreat week. The question she suggested they consider was:\u00a0“is this necessary?” In our daily lives, we have to think. But sometimes we do stuff that’s\u2026 Read More »<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[5],"tags":[44,25,32,95,94],"class_list":["post-236","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-jan-2017","tag-andrea-fella","tag-daily-life","tag-jeanne-corrigal","tag-renunciation","tag-simplicity"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.grzesina.net\/meditation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/236","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.grzesina.net\/meditation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.grzesina.net\/meditation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.grzesina.net\/meditation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.grzesina.net\/meditation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=236"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.grzesina.net\/meditation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/236\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":238,"href":"https:\/\/www.grzesina.net\/meditation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/236\/revisions\/238"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.grzesina.net\/meditation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=236"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.grzesina.net\/meditation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=236"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.grzesina.net\/meditation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=236"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}\n
\nAndrea<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"