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Archive for June 27, 2019
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Jun 27, 2019 |
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Island of Plenty
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| Eva and her family live an isolated life on the remote island of Stóra Dímun, in the middle of the North Atlantic Sea, with the occasional helicopter visit their only connection to the outside world. While they are geographically isolated, Eva states that she never feels lonely. Eight generations of her family have lived on this island, with children seeing first hand the full cycle of life all around them. Summer and winter are both enjoyable to Eva, who feels rich because she gets to be a caretaker of the natural life here. She rejoices in the “many small good moments” that make up her days. |
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To study the Buddha Way is to study the self; to study the self is to forget the self; to forget the self is to be actualized by myriad things.
– Dogen –
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A Primer for Forgetting
“We live in a culture that prizes memory–how much we can store, the quality of what’s preserved, how we might better document and retain the moments of our life while fighting off the nightmare of losing all that we have experienced. But what if forgetfulness were seen not as something to fear–be it in the form of illness or simple absentmindedness–but rather as a blessing, a balm, a path to peace and rebirth? A Primer for Forgetting is a remarkable experiment in scholarship, autobiography, and social criticism by the author of the classics The Gift and Trickster Makes This World. It forges a new vision of forgetfulness by assembling fragments of art and writing from the ancient world to the modern, weighing the potential boons forgetfulness might offer the present moment as a creative and political force. It also turns inward, using the author’s own life and memory as a canvas upon which to extol the virtues of a concept too long taken as an evil.” Here is an excerpt from Lewis Hyde’s latest work. { read more }
Be The Change
For more inspiration join this Saturday’s Awakin Call with Lewis Hyde: On Creativity, the Commons and Forgetting. More details and RSVP info here. { more } |
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Sangha of Auspicious Companions 