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Ratnadevi is a mindfulness teacher, trainer and retreat leader based in Scotland. She is the author of <i><a href=”https://playspacepublications.com/bringing-mindfulness-to-life/”>Bringing Mindfulness to Life</a></i>. As a qualified coach she offers a range of one-to-one services, including online mindfulness teaching, mentoring and supervising. She is a member of the Triratna Buddhist Order and wrote an arts-based PhD thesis looking at the place of ritual for Buddhists practicing in the modern world.
Bringing Mindfulness to Life is published monthly.
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The Problem of Plastic and Being Complicit
Living sustainably with a compassionate heart in this…
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Beyond Ideas of Wrongdoing and Rightdoing: Incidents on a Building Site
Living beyond language and ideas of one another
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Exercising the Moral Imagination: A Letter from 30 Years Hence
A vision of sustainable change
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Promise to Make the Most of Your Life
On purpose, fulfillment, and a life well-lived
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How does it serve others?
Taking care of others as a central theme in self-care in..
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Spiral Fracture
Kindness and gratitude in the face of suffering
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Home: Living with the Reality of Uncertainty
Finding acceptance and gratitude in impermanence
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Northeasterly Winds and Balanced Effort
On being open and adapting to the ever-changing present
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Wood Wind: Voicing Our Sorrow for the World
A reflection on the world’s sadness and sources of…