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Happy New Year! (and a clean slate to you ~)
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Britton Gildersleeve
I love clean slates. I love a morning which is unencumbered by the mistakes of yesterday, and the day before, and the day before that. The idea that it all begins now, today, this very moment… It’s intoxicating. Just the frame of it — today is clean ~ no baggage ~ the first day of…
teaching the teacher: one teacher’s practice ~
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Britton Gildersleeve
You all who read this blog may well be tired of hearing about my wonderful students. So you may want to get up and go get a cup of tea; come back in a few paragraphs. Because this is another awed look at the fact that I am paid to learn from the best teachers…
“as common as grass” ~
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Britton Gildersleeve
“…in spite of the contemporary public perception of meditation and poetry as special, exotic, and difficult, they are both as old and as common as grass.” ~ Gary Snyder Yesterday my students asked me to read what I had written during our morning quickwrite. (Each day we begin class with, literally, a quick write —…
the Buddha was a teacher, too ~
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Britton Gildersleeve
Yesterday in the undergraduate class I teach, everyone was quiet. Working. Drawing and colouring. Thinking. I often use ‘childish’ tools and practices in my classes, even though I teach university students. Or retired adults. I do this because of the effects: it makes learning almost effortless. The assignment wasn’t easy ~ to construct a metaphor…
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