🎨 Monday Muse | Impermanence, Thoughts, and Contemplation
Perennial Newsletter (May 25th, 2023)
Greetings, Readers!
Here is the latest Monday Muse (or Perennial newsletter) with a new morning meditation, perennial reminder (and question), and recommendation(s) to consider.
Be wise and be well this week!
📿 Morning Meditation
The morning meditation is a recent addition to the Monday Muse, courtesy of The Wisdom School podcast (Apple or Spotify). These are short selected readings and teachings delivered in a Lectio Divina style from various philosophical and spiritual traditions.
📌 Perennial Reminder(s)
Is there any relationship between the thinker and his thought, or is there only thought and not a thinker? If there are no thoughts, there is no thinker. When you have thoughts, is there a thinker? …
Pursue a thought completely to its very end. Think it out fully, feel it out, and discover for yourself what happens. You will find that there is no thinker at all. For, when thought ceases, the thinker is not. We think there are two states, as the thinker and the thought. These two states are fictitious, unreal. There is only thought, and the bundle of thought creates the ‘me’, the thinker. […]
Source: What Are You Doing With Your Life? by J. Krishnamurti
💡 Perennial Question(s)
What do we mean by thought? When do you think? Obviously, thought is the result of a response, neurological or psychological, the response of stored-up memory. There is the immediate response of the nerves to a sensation, and there is the psychological response of stored-up memory, the influence of race, group, guru, family, tradition, and so on—all of which you call thought. So, the thought process is the response of memory, is it not? […]
Source: What Are You Doing With Your Life? by J. Krishnamurti
🔥 Recommendation(s)
This week’s recommendation is Wisdom of the Masters (Apple or Spotify), a podcast that inspired our new morning meditations on The Wisdom School. The particular episode I’m recommending is a selected reading from Thomas Merton’s New Seeds of Contemplation.
🎧 Latest Podcast Episode(s)
Thank you for listening; I hope you found something useful.
Until next time, be wise and be well,
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