Stillpoint focuses on mindfulness and meditation as spiritual practices, as well as their relationship to health and healing.
The Illness and Meditation section looks at how meditation can help with healing and, because this site arose from an ME/CFS support group, contains specific reference to problems associated with these conditions. Meditation Help covers tools such as mantras and mindfulness, and 'healing attitudes' such as loving-kindness, while On being Taught by Illness has personal accounts of how illness has affected people's spiritual lives.
Take a look at the Stillpoint Community section where you can sign up for a e-newsletter or take part in a virtual meditation, or read reviews of tapes, CDs and books. Reaching Buddhism is for those looking to find out more about Buddhism.
Find out more below, or navigate using the Pages and Categories in the left hand sidebar where you will find comprehensive alphabetical listings of what's available.
Though inspired by Buddhism, Stillpoint is a resource for people of all religious backgrounds and none.
Inside Stillpoint:Illness & Meditation
Too ill to meditate? Meditation as an aid to healing. Problems when meditating with ME/CFS and some solutions, including some specific treatments that may make meditation easier. Relaxationa advice for when meditation is too hard.
Meditation Help
Advice and tips including the cultivation of 'stimulation-free' time, mindfulness, finding the present moment and loving kindness. Section on audio help materials.
Reviews
Reviews of meditation and Buddhism books, tapes and CDs, videos and DVDs.
Personal accounts of how illness has affected people's spiritual lives, Buddhist teachings on sickness and general reflections on illness and spirituality.
Reaching Buddhism
Resources for the isolated and beginning Buddhist. Includes contacts, resources and libraries, correspondence and internet courses and basic Buddhist teachings.teachings.
Stillpoint Community
Our Breathing Space e-newsletter. Monday Metta virtual meditation group. Details of who currently runs Stillpoint (and how to volunteer!).
Noticeboard
Specialist projects linking illness with meditation and/or Buddhism, including a notice board. Advice on setting up a patient group. Access and support suggestions for sanghas and groups.
Ferocious Blessing
A wonoderful photo exhibition by Stillpoint member Penny, who is bedbound but still managed to take these beautiful and moving photos that reveals a wonderous inner universe.
Meditates with Cats
(With apologies to Kevin Costner)
By Dorothy Scarth
......and many more in the Writing and Photographs Categories
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Neither from nor towards; at the still point, there the dance is,
But neither arrest nor movement. And do not call it fixity,
Where past and future are gathered. Neither movement from nor towards,
Neither ascent nor decline. Except for the point, the still point,
There would be no dance, and there is only the dance.
I can only say, there we have been: but I cannot say where.
And I cannot say, how long, for that is to place it in time.
The inner freedom from the practical desire,
The release from action and suffering, release from the inner
And the outer compulsion, yet surrounded
By a grace of sense, a white light still and moving.......
from Burnt Norton, The Four Quartets, T.S.Eliot
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