
A Non-Religious Spiritual Practice and Volunteer Community Supporting Boston’s South Shore
Sunday Reflection — April 27, 2025
This Week’ Music
P. Tchaikovsky:: Snowdrop (April) – from The Seasons, Opus 37
H. Zimmer: Corynorhinus – from Batman Begins
E. Grieg: Vision – from Lyric Pieces, Opus 62
E. Morricone: Theme from “Cinema Paradiso”
This Week’s Theme – Doing Mode and Being Mode
At Friday Reflection this week, we had a spirited discussion about morality, karma, and the space between oneself and the many “others” we encounter every day. A great question emerged, one many of us have asked before: when it comes to “being moral,” is it a matter of nature or nurture? We might ask this a little differently. How much of living a good life is about being a good person and how much is about doing good things? Our actions say a lot about who we are, perhaps more than the words we’d use to describe ourselves. Mindfulness is unique in that it is something we do, something we practice, yet a kind of doing that allows us to settle into our being, settling into our very selves with gentle, loving, openhearted awareness. When we practice and live mindfully, we find that nature and nurture go hand in hand, that taking care of one involves taking good care of the other.
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 “Doing Mode and Being Mode.”
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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