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Put Plum Village in your pocket with the new app. The free app can support us to cultivate mindfulness, compassion and joy through guided meditations, deep relaxations, practice poems, bells of mindfulness and other practices.
The app has been lovingly developed by Wake Up London member Cata Zorzini and others. He explains a bit more about it in this video:
You can download the app by searching ‘Plum Village App’ in the Apple and Android App Stores.
Mindful Moment
When you plant lettuce, if it does not grow well, you don’t blame the lettuce. You look for reasons it is not doing well. It may need fertilizer, or more water, or less sun. You never blame the lettuce. Yet if we have problems with our friends or family, we blame the other person. But if we know how to take care of them, they will grow well, like the lettuce. Blaming has no positive effect at all, nor does trying to persuade using reason and argument. That is my experience. No blame, no reasoning, no argument, just understanding. If you understand, and you show that you understand, you can love, and the situation will change.
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