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Friday Reflection — February 20, 2026

Friday Reflection meets this week the usual time of 9:30-11:00, again at  the Scituate Public Library.  There is ample parking.  Come in through the front door, take a right before you get to the front desk, we meet in the large meeting room at the end of the hall; same meeting space as two few weeks ago. We will soon have more permanent meeting place. 

We move on to Chapter Seven (Mother and Child Luminosity) in Pema Chodron’s How We Live is How We Die.  If last week’s practice (feeling out shaky ground underfoot) felt a little challenging, this week’s practice is as easy as looking up at the clear blue February sky. So it can be, Pema says, with the “open awareness” that is always right here, ever available and open to all human beings. Pause….look up….notice big sky….let go….

Pema offers helpful instructions about how to enjoy big-sky view because, as we know, thoughts (and many other distractions) get in the way. What I find most helpful is Pema’s gentle insistence that thoughts and distractions aren’t an enemy; they’re helpful friends on the path. The peace we might sometimes experience in mindfulness practice isn’t peaceful because peace is the default!  It’s peaceful because we gently make it so: one breath at a time, one gentle letting go of one distracting thought, over and over. Tomorrow we’ll practice making peace, engaging (for not the first time) in the very basics of mindful practice. How can making peace with ourselves, one breath at a time, help us make peace in a hurtful world?  What about “big sky” breathing connects us to the big skies of the great beyond, the realms humans connect with upon death?

Come sit gently with yourself and others.  Hold these questions with openhearted curiosity.  You do not have to be reading along to join in, though reading along might enhance your experience.

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