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Rachel Sermanni makes a new offering, in the form of a Podcast: The Finger that Points to the Moon... She says: 'What I am pointing at, with whatever I am saying or whoever I am interviewing, is only the finger. It is only the direction in which I’d like for you to Look and then you can see what you see.This podcast, I hope, can be ignition, inspiration and curiosity for others whilst sating my own inquiry and desire to integrate creative form with general living life. To make something that ...
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For more information on the workshop, including tickets, follow this link - https://www.rachelsermanni.com/workshop In the final episode of this series I explore the last two Rules written by Sister Corita Kent, plus the ‘helpful hints’ at the end…. Rule 9 : ’Be happy whenever you can manage it. Enjoy yourself. It’s lighter than you think.’ Rule 10…
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For more information on the workshop, including tickets, follow this link - https://www.rachelsermanni.com/workshop ‘Don’t try to Create and Analyse at the same time. They’re different processes.’ I absolutely love this reminder. Comparing the two processes to feminine, masculine principles (energies that exist in us as whole individuals). This is …
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For more information on the workshop, including tickets, follow this link - https://www.rachelsermanni.com/workshop ‘Nothing is a Mistake, there’s no win and no fail. There’s only make’ ‘The Only rule is Work. If you work it will lead to something. It’s the people who do all of the work all of the time who eventually catch on to things.’ I talk abo…
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For more information on the workshop, including tickets, follow this link - https://www.rachelsermanni.com/workshop So this, I think, is a really interesting rule: ‘Be Self-Disciplined. This means finding someone wise or smart & choosing to follow them. To be disciplined is to follow in a good way. To be self disciplined is to follow in a better wa…
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For more information on the workshop, including tickets, follow this link - https://www.rachelsermanni.com/workshop ‘Consider Everything an Experiment’ In this episode I get talking about a favourite hand book of mine, written by Chogyam Trungpa, interpreting the ‘Slogans of Atisha’ which are a bunch of succinct one or two liners that are, in some …
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For more information on the workshop, including tickets, follow this link - https://www.rachelsermanni.com/workshop In this Episode I explore rules 2 & 3 of Sister Corita Kent’s ’10 Enduring Rules for a Creative Life’. 2) General duties of a student; Pull everything out of your Teacher, pull everything out of your fellow students 3)General duties o…
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For more information on the workshop, including tickets, follow this link - https://www.rachelsermanni.com/workshop In this episode I introduce you to Sister Corita Kent & her 10 rules for a Creative Life. Then we dive deep, mainly swimming in the pools of my own psyche (where else could I go?!), into Rule number 1. ‘Find a Place you Trust then Try…
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Episode Three - Practicing Compassion for Neighbours & Those we are Closest to
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This episode of Rachel Sermanni’s Finger that Points to the Moon is the recorded practice of a visualisation meditation meant to aid any open-minded listener to having a little bit extra of compassion and generosity for the near and dear who, so often, bear the brunt of our other, less gracious qualities. Better to be late and authentic than on tim…
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Episode Two - Meandering Musings on the Muse
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What is the Muse? Rachel Sermanni does not know. But in this Episode she goes on a bold pilgrimage within herself. Exploring her personal experiences and her murky psyche to convey some aspects of what it is to be inspired, how it is to make something of it and what it might mean when The Muse is witnessed in a shocking nakedness. https://www.rache…
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Episode One - The Inner Critic & Other Stories
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There is a famous Buddhist analogy about The Finger that Points to the Moon. It means that the Value is in what is being pointed at and not in the thing showing the way. To focus on the finger that points to the truth would mean you miss seeing Truth itself, for yourself. In this podcast Rachel Sermanni will explore her relationship to creativity a…
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