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Archive for October, 2020
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There is no comradeship except through unity on the same rope, climbing towards the same peak.
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The Dugnad in Our DNA
Traditionally, dugnad (a Norwegian word) refers to “the collective effort of individual Norwegians who sacrifice their personal desires, and allow their own sense of ‘normal’ to be temporarily disrupted, for the benefit of their community or country. On March 12 of this year, after the first Norwegian died from COVID-19, Prime Minister Erna Solberg called for a national dugnad. She asked everyone in Norway to band together to reduce the spread of the disease. As a result, the country contained the outbreak, avoiding massive numbers of infections and deaths. To my knowledge, I don’t have any Norwegians in my family tree. But a concept similar to dugnad lives in my DNA.” Phyllis Cole-Dai shares more. { read more }
Be The Change
Have you had a ‘dugnad’ experience in your own life? Share it with someone today. |
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I must go there today —
Tomorrow the plum blossoms
Will scatter.
– Ryokan –
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Trail of Light
This beautifully moving film features Aralyn Doiron, a delightful woman who has trained to be a Death Walker, someone who values a relationship with death and someone who values life. She suggests that it is only when we acknowledge that we are going to die one day, that we can truly start to live. The fact that many of us are separated from death is a disconnect from our humanity. She encourages having normal conversations about death, something we don’t usually talk about, bringing death more into our lives in an enlivening way. Death teaches us about impermanence and about valuing what we have in the moment. { read more }
Be The Change
Answer for yourself the question, “If you could know what day you were going to die, would you want to know, and what would you do differently if you knew? |
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Trail of Light
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| This beautifully moving film features Aralyn Doiron, a delightful woman who has trained to be a Death Walker, someone who values a relationship with death and someone who values life. She suggests that it is only when we acknowledge that we are going to die one day, that we can truly start to live. The fact that many of us are separated from death is a disconnect from our humanity. She encourages having normal conversations about death, something we don’t usually talk about, bringing death more into our lives in an enlivening way. Death teaches us about impermanence and about valuing what we have in the moment. |
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The future is not out there in front of us, but inside us.
– Joanna Macy –
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Joanna Macy: Entering the Bardo
“In this op-ed, eco-philosopher and Buddhist scholar Joanna Macy introduces us to the bardo–the Tibetan Buddhist concept of a gap between worlds where transition is possible. As the pandemic reveals ongoing collapse and holds a mirror to our collective ills, she writes, we have the opportunity to step into a space of reimagining.” { read more }
Be The Change
For more inspiration, join this Saturday’s Awakin Call with Michael Dowd,”Living Lovingly in the Age of Dying: Deep Adaptation.” More details and RSVP info here. { more } |
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Sangha of Auspicious Companions 