Sangha of Auspicious Companions

June 16, 2018

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Be Still, Life

‘Be Still, Life’ is a book written for the child in all of us — the child in you who stares out the window when you should be working and wishes you had the day off. Author Ohara Hale has captured the childlike dreams we all have in whimsical illustrations and thoughts to embrace the moments that are before us. Hale reminds us of the wonder of nature through a child’s eyes in such simple images as noticing the optical illusion of fish flying through the clouds as you stare at the still surface of a pond or the smell of the air after a summer rain. { read more }

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The next time you are distracted and wishing you had the day off, allow your imagination to take you away from your work for a few minutes and observe nature as seen through the eyes of a child. { more }

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June 15, 2018

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The Unplanned Organization

A traditional concept in organizational leadership is that people resist change, so the standard antidote is for strong leadership to manipulate change. Yet in this article, Margaret Wheatley upends this idea of control and shows that humans are similar to natural ecosystems with an inherent impulse to grow. Life always wants to emerge, create and evolve both on the individual level and within large groups. By allowing change to come from within a system, people can be engaged in their own evolution to find creative solutions to problems rather than being directed to change by an outside leader. The implication for everyday life, especially in these trying and anxious times, is that we can respond to seeming chaos by knowing there is a self-organizing principle at work in the world and that ultimately we can be hopeful as long as we participate in creating new life out of the turmoil. { read more }

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Observe within your own life how in the midst of chaos–be it a messy desk or a messy relationship– life is trying to evolve within you.

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June 14, 2018

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Milan Rai: The Butterfly Effect

“One day I was thinking, and suddenly, I noticed this tiny butterfly in my studio. I was drawn to it and managed to capture it. I’d heard a Native American proverb that said if you capture a butterfly and whisper your wish and let it go, it will take your wish to the greater spirit and your wish will come true. So I made a wish and without expecting my wish to come true, I just let it go. That was my first learning — letting it go. When I did that, suddenly something felt so light in me. And butterflies kept coming and visiting. Sometimes they sat on my forehead. They kept coming and reminding me of the power of simplicity. So I said to myself, ‘I don’t have to do complex things. Make it simple and be very honest with your work and don’t expect anything from it.’ So after doing all this, one day I designed a butterfly shape and pinned it in a public space.” Artist Milan Rai shares more in this interview. { read more }

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For more inspiration join this Saturday’s Awakin Call with Milan Rai. More info and RSVP details here. { more }

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June 13, 2018

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From Bomb Site to Medicine Garden

It was a fenced-off World War II bomb site that had rewilded, and a team of London artists decided it was the perfect place to grow a medicine garden. The site is in the middle of a social housing complex in the Bethnal Green neighborhood of Tower Hamlets, a London borough that has become the U.K.’s second most densely populated local authority, the basic unit of local government. But now, the garden grows more than 30 varieties of edible or medicinal plants, from dandelion and common nettle to cowslip and comfrey, that have grown in the London area for the past thousand years. Local residents can harvest the plants for free. { read more }

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Look around your yard or your neighborhood for a neglected corner of earth. Take one action this week toward symbiosis with that space – helping it to help you to help it – in ever widening circles of relationship.

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June 12, 2018

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I Will Teach You: Great Grandmaster Tae Yun Kim

At age seven, Tae Yun Kim gazed upon her uncles practicing an ancient martial art. She was awestruck. Never before had she seen something so beautiful and exciting, their movements both natural and mystical. She decided right then and there she had to learn. There was only one problem: She was a girl in 1950s South Korea, and this was a five-thousand-year-old culture and tradition. When Kim asked to train with them, she was told, “You’re supposed to learn how to cook and sew. And if you’re lucky, someone will find you a husband. . . . ” This is the story of a girl who was taunted, beaten, faced unimaginable physical and emotional obstacles, yet would not give up her dream. In Parabola’s excerpt from her book “Seven Steps to Inner Power,” Kim describes the moment that changed her life. { read more }

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What dreams are you fighting for? Take a moment to remember.

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June 11, 2018

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Embrace the Grace, Celebrate the Infinite

In a recent graduation address Nipun Mehta shares the origin story of ServiceSpace and the shifts catalyzed by exploring a set of questions unusual in the realm of technology: what do exponential love, exponential forgiveness and exponential kindness look like? He shares the power discovered in the practice of letting go/letting in and allowing “the vast conspiracy of the universe to drop you at the doorsteps of greater good.” His stirring talk is a call to let the gentle power of generosity, grace, and gratitude help us midwife humanity to its next plateau, a call to keep singing, and to remind the world of its song. { read more }

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Take a moment in each day to think of how you can be generous (a smile, a teaching, listening, observing nature), how grace is blessing your life (serendipity, coincidence, timing, observed beauty, found treasure), and how you are grateful for the good, the bad, and the ugly in your life. { more }

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June 10, 2018

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How to Befriend the Universe

With unbridled exuberance and a zest for life, philosopher and comedian Emily Levine shares how she learned to love reality and death while facing her own injuries and terminal illness. Part quantum physics, part nature, some philosophy, and lots of laughs come together in this TED talk brilliantly presented by Maria Popova. In it Levine shares the revelation, “You have to understand that we don’t live in Newton’s clockwork universe anymore. We live in a banana peel universe, and we won’t ever be able to know everything or control everything or predict everything…So we might as well just embrace it. Not just life but all processes — generation, degeneration, and regeneration.” Enjoy Levine’s huge spirit and wisdom and Popova’s insightful suggestions for further reading. { read more }

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What if the face of death was something not to be feared? Watch this short video to help entertain the thought. { more }

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