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Metaphor Monday: Catch and Release: A Variation on a Classic Metaphor
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Dr. Arnie Kozak
The Buddha urged us not to get hooked by greed, desire, aversion, and so forth. Don’t be taken in and away by the temptations of transient things (or confusing them to be anything but transient). The fisher’s hook provides an apt metaphor. The fish gets tricked into thinking the lure is something that it is…
Metaphor Monday: What’s in Your Tree
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Dr. Arnie Kozak
This metaphor comes from, Lorie, a member of our little meditation community in Burlington, Vermont. The insight came to her while on meditation retreat at IMS (The Insight Meditation Society in Barre, Massachusetts). We can understand the mind as a tree and thoughts as birds. Birds come and go to the branches of the tree.…
Mud Season: The Way Beyond is Through
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Dr. Arnie Kozak
Mud season has arrived early in mid-march. Warm days and sunshine are melting the snowpack and the ground is thawing, partially in places and yielding to soft pools of mud in many spots. A sign at the nature preserve near my house has a sign encouraging hikers to walk through the mud and not around…
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