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Archives for July 2017

Ending the Ping-Pong Game: The Peace of Balance in Body, Mind, & Heart

An article by Janice Cittasubha Sheppard on the theme for the October 2017 retreat.

Like many who grew up in the 1950s, I have happy memories of playing ping-pong in our basement ‘rec room’ and of hearing my father’s stories about his skill as a ping-pong master when he was young. Playing ping-pong is fun, but having a mind and heart that swings back and forth like a ping-pong ball is decidedly not fun.

It can take some time, even decades, to notice that swinging between peaks and valleys of emotion, attention, energy, effort, etc. is exhausting. Our attachment to the peaks sometimes has obscured the truth of the equal and opposite valleys. Or sometimes we have decided that there must be a way to get the peaks without the valleys and we just have to figure out what it is. But slowly, with time, we come to realize …
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