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Today is a quiet Sunday morning, rather warm for the season, I even heard some birds singing. It is all quiet everywhere, which gives you a feeling of being alone. I went out in the garden to try to capture some late autumn colours. They are there because the autumn so far has been very mild. Here are a few flowers that lights up the day. I have seen that some of you out there already have got snow. It looks really lovely, but I appreciate not to have to shovel snow from the drive way! On brain pickings   I found a wonderful article on What Leonard Cohen Teaches Us about Presence and the Art of Stillness.  Novelist and essayist Pico Iyer, the author of The Art of Stillness: Adventures in Going Nowhere , have interviewed singer-songwriter Leonard Cohen, who in 1994 moved to the Mt. Baldy Zen Center to embark on five years of seclusion. Midway through Cohen was ordained as a Rinzai Zen Buddist monk and given the Dharma name Jikan-Pali for "silence".  Iyer writes...