
A Non-Religious Spiritual Practice and Volunteer Community Supporting Boston’s South Shore
Sunday Reflection — March 30, 2025
This Week’ Music
H. Zimmer: Day One - from Interstellar
G. Faure: Romance without Words, Opus 17
E. Grieg: Ballad - from Lyric Pieces, Opus 65
S. Joplin: Original Rags (1899)
This Week’s Theme – Taking Care of this Moment
Mindfulness practice invites us to bring our attention to the present moment. We can practice when we’re sitting, walking, lying down, even when we’re driving or drinking a cup of coffee. Mindfulness practice can be as simple as noting the breath as it comes and goes…one breath…another breath…breath again… Yet mindful awareness of the present moment does not deliver us from past pain or guarantee against an uncertain future! This week’s reflection invites us to consider the ways the past is with us. Whatever has happened, whatever we feel about it, whatever stories we tell about it – this is the very stuff we work through in mindful engagement with the present. Practicing with others makes this work easier, gentle, and possible. Practice also opens the possibility that whatever happens next will be something new, something different from anything that’s come before.
Come this Sunday…sit a spell…and enjoy being curious about this experience of being human.
This Week’s Reading
Each week, we hear a short chapter from Mindfulness for Beginners – Reclaiming the Present Moment – and Your Life, by Jon Kabat-Zinn. If you’d like to read along, you can purchase a copy at Buttonwood Books in Cohasset. Tell our friends at Buttonwood that you’re connected with the “Sunday Reflection Book Club” and you’ll receive a 15% discount! This week, we’ll hear the short chapter “Taking Care of This Moment.”
You don’t need to read along or buy the book to join in! And you aren’t missing out if you haven’t started “from the beginning.” Read along if you like, and come whenever and as often as makes sense to you.
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