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Contemplative Druidry 🌲🧘🏻
Druid Meditation & Nature Mindfulness Practices
Ár nDraíocht Féin Hearth Keeper of Hazelnut Contemplative Hearth 🌿🌰
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Yes! Paganism helps us to reconnect to Nature and see that we are not separate from Nature. To see all of Nature around us as holy and sacred, we then naturally want to protect Nature and care for our Mother Earth instead of exploiting and destroying it. Thereby destroying ourselves as well.
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Just as we do with thoughts, we can observe the symptoms we are experiencing in our sickness, neither labeling our illness and experience as good or bad but accepting it for what it is. This is the practice so as to not let our illnesses disrupt our inner tranquility and calmness of heart. 🙏🏻 /|\
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Love this! Is your farm on social media or anything? Do you only grow Western herbs? I recently started studying Western herbalism after learning Chinese Herbal Medicine at school. I feel a lot more connected to the Western plants.
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Thanks so much for the nice comment. I hope you continue to enjoy my posts and Contemplative approach. I LOVE Oregon so much! I went to Chinese Medicine school in Portland roughly 15yrs ago. What is the name of your farm?
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I can’t thank you enough for the supportive and kind comments. It really means a lot to me and I am glad that you enjoyed my writing and Contemplative approach to Druidry. Many blessings to you and bows of gratitude 🙏🏻
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I also don’t honor or venerate the Buddha in my personal practice, as it is strictly a Druid practice with Zen Buddhist influences. 🙂 I will have to look into the Viking Buddha though!
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I haven’t established an official ADF protogrove yet but that is my intention in the near future.
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It worked really well! I incorporate the key ADF ritual components and honor the Celtic gods and celebrate the Druid holy days. My original ritual structure for the Contemplative Druidry services came from Our Own Druidry ADF book. I also lean heavily on ADF Druid principles.
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My practice is very similar. I incorporate Zen, Mindfulness and Druid aspects. I have a Druid altar, honor the Gods, and celebrate holy days. I also meditate at home and at the Zen temple. I also designed Contemplative Druidry services inspired by Thich Nhat Hanh and his Plum Village chanting book.
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Excellent! How long have you been practicing this way? I think you are the first person I have met to have combined those two.
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Lovely setting
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Thank you so much! I hope you like the content over time and I am always open to suggestions.
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Our work is never ending!
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Ah it is not the object, situation, or person that disrupts our inner tranquility but only our perception of such objects, situations and persons.
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I have been tinkering with the same idea for a Contemplative Druidry organization and clergy since there are none.
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How did you find the online ritual experience? I have been debating on starting an online contemplative meditation group. I would of course love to have an in person Contemplative Druidry center but it’s not feasible at the moment.
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Yes exactly! It has been an extremely enriching spiritual path for me now that I have established regular practices and rituals.
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Yes Zen Buddhism blends extremely well with Druidry to form the practices in my Contemplative path.
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Hey thanks for the question! It’s hard to explain with the limited space here but yes it is a combination of my experience and practices in Buddhism and Druidry. I call it Contemplative Druidry. It is a Nature meditation & mindfulness form of Druidry with my own Zen and ADF inspired rituals as well.
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It’s interesting to read this because I have a soil microbe testing business for gardens and farms. The microbes and type of compost is so important to having a thriving soil ecosystem and quality crop! 🙂
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That sounds wonderful. I will be doing a meditation, my usual Sunday devotional but extended to include prayers and offerings for Imbolc.
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Love this!
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The wind blowing through tall pine trees
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Oooh I will definitely check this out! 🙏🏻
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This is beautiful 🙏🏻
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Hey nice to meet you! 🙏🏻 I have not been there but I know about it. It’s quite a ways away from me but maybe one day I will check it out!
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What I meant to say was my Contemplative Druidry practice has always been alone but my Buddhist practice has always been with a teacher. 🙂
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That’s so great to hear! I have always practiced alone also and would love to have a Contemplative Druidry group to regularly meditate with someday. Which Buddhist practices have you incorporated?
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I look forward to sharing my practice with you! I will be starting a blog soon as well. 🙏🏻
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That’s great! What did you learn about it? I read a book called Contemplative Druidry way back when I got interested in it and thought it would really blend nicely with my Zen practice. There is not much on the Contemplative Druid path as it is very new and most Druidry is heavily ritual based. /|\
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Can you add me please? 🙏🏻