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Archive for March 28, 2019
This week’s inspiring video: Befriending Our Despair: Guidance from Joanna Macy
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Video of the Week
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Mar 28, 2019 |
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Befriending Our Despair: Guidance from Joanna Macy
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| Joanna Rogers Macy is an environmental activist, author, and scholar of Buddhism, general systems theory, and deep ecology. In this short video she advises that pain alerts us to what needs attention. Pain is not the enemy of cheerfulness, but tells us there is suffering. When we face suffering, our hearts and eyes open to beauty. We are not alone in our despair and when we have the courage to speak of it, it cracks open so the love can be found. The key is not being afraid of the pain, not being afraid of the world’s suffering. If you aren’t afraid, nothing can stop you. |
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The trees that are slow to grow bear the best fruit.
– Moliere –
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The Problem with the Paradigm of Urgency
“Wouldn’t you like to be part of a different kind of revolution?” In this excerpt from The More Beautiful World our Hearts Know is Possible,” Charles Eisenstein presents an alternate view of being “revolutionary.” Rather than continuing along the same path of urgency and effort and struggling with a problem, which come from a place of scarcity and domination, he suggests we slow down, do nothing, approach “life in a spirit of ease and play” so we can first, truly identity the problem, and second, open ourselves to creative energies that will bring about “something truly new for civilization.” { read more }
Be The Change
Choose a problem that is plaguing you. Rather than struggle with it, sit with it in ease for a period of time to allow your creative energy to bubble up. |
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Sangha of Auspicious Companions 