Sangha of Auspicious Companions

March 15, 2021

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The Defiant Tenderness of Surrender

“There are so many courageous people just making breakfast in the morning, going to work, taking care of their families, trying to do online teaching. Holy God. I mean, I just wish there was a cosmic scorekeeper for all of the billions of people doing their everyday acts of courage. I suspect that what we’re looking at in the sky at night aren’t stars, they are evidence and markers of all those courageous acts that happened earlier in the day.” In this insightful and delightfully human conversation, artist Pat Benincasa, and tech leader Sonesh Surana discuss how the era of COVID has dramatically changed our context, necessitated shape-shifting, and spurred us to embrace the power of small acts, and embody the defiant tenderness of surrender. { read more }

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Join an intimate circle this Wednesday, with Pat Benincasa on,”The Art of Life in Transition.” More details and RSVP info here. { more }

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March 14, 2021

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Blowing Open the Dusty Windows of Perception

“Certain places — like where springwater falls over a slickrock ledge, sculpting the land of canyons, or where steam bubbles from dark cauldrons in Yellowstone while bison hunker nearby –have a power to radically alter my state of consciousness, such that suddenly my bodymind re-members the most expansive thoughts, ecstatic feelings, deepest mysteries, or the biggest cosmic questions of my life. It’s almost as if I get something like a ‘contact high’ from the land.” { read more }

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Consider the questions the author poses at the end of her piece, “Maybe your windows (or doors) of perception are never dusty or closed, but if they are, how do you open them? What do you see or feel, remember or imagine?”

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March 13, 2021

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Oh For Crying Out Loud

“Death has been visiting my life a lot in this past year. During those times, I have frequently heard Mary Elizabeth Frye’s well-known poem, ‘Do No Stand At My Grave and Weep.’ This morning as I was lolling abed, I began naming my departed-beloveds in my mind, calling their sweet faces to mind and silently speaking their names one by one. This is one of the ways I honor them and deal with their absence. In the midst of that familiar ritual, I ‘heard’ a distinct voice speaking into my mind. This is what it said…” Barbara Mcafee shares more in this heartfelt piece, that includes her song, “Oh For Crying Out Loud.” { read more }

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How open do you feel to your own experiences of sorrow? For more inspiration, check out “Grief as Deep Activism,” by Francis Weller. { more }

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March 12, 2021

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The Nature of Plastics

“All plastic begins in a factory. That much we know. But where it goes next remains poorly understood. Only 1 percent of the plastic released into the marine environment is accounted for, found on the surface and in the intestines of aquatic animals. The rest is a little harder to measure. Some presumably washes back ashore. An untold amount settles, sunk by the weight of its new passengers. (One study found four times more plastic fibers in the sediment of the deep-sea floor than on the surface of the ocean.)” Meera Subramaniam has spent three decades focused on environmental issues. The following essay is part of a series exploring the effects of the petrochemical industry on life, economics, and democracy. { read more }

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Learn more from this short film, “Filtering a Plastic Ocean.” { more }

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March 11, 2021

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A Conversation with Americ Azavedo: The Truth Demands to Be Live

For ten semesters, Americ Azevedo’s seminar, ‘Time, Money, and Love in the Age of Technology,’ cultivated in students an awareness of the larger issues that form a context for their lives. He was well qualified. Earlier in his life he was reading a passage from Krishnamurti, “Live the Truth.” That same day he stood in front of a room full of trainees, uneasy with his job and its values. He turned to the trainees and said, “I can no longer do this work. We’re not real with each other in this place. I quit.” Back at his desk, he saw everything in a new light. A spiritual fog had lifted. In some ways, it all began when he was bullied and called stupid as a child, and found a way to relate to his bullies and rid himself of the epithet. Read his story here. { read more }

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Think twice before you apply labels to yourself or other people even in your mind. Give them and yourself the benefit of the doubt. For more inspiration read this piece by Azeveda, “How to Realize True Wealth.” { more }

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March 10, 2021

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Joining Our Wildernesses

Liz Tichenor was ordained as a priest at 27. Just a few months before her ordination, Tichenor lost her mother to suicide. A year and a half later, her infant son, just 40 days old, died from a likely curable but misdiagnosed medical condition. Her stunning memoir, “Night Lake: A Young Priest Maps the Topography of Grief,” shares a story of finding a way forward through searing tragedies, and slowly learning how to live again. In this moving, personal essay, she speaks to the power of ‘joining our wildernesses.” { read more }

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Join this Saturday’s Awakin Call with Rev Liz Tichenor. More details and RSVP info here. { more }

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March 9, 2021

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Eldering in the Age of Consumption

“In modern Western society, we want to preserve everything and we want to live forever. We wage war on old age and write songs about being forever young. Because death is seen as no more, no less than the end of the line–something to be held off and resisted–we live in constant fear of it. But to the Celts, death was inextricably intertwined with life. Every month the moon died and was reborn. Every winter the Sun died and was reborn. The tide came in and the tide receded. To think that you could avoid these natural cycles was not only unthinkable but undesirable. Out of all the dying, something precious and new is always born.” Sharon Blackie and Stephen Jenkinson share more in this thought-provoking piece.
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For more inspiration, check out this powerful conversation, recorded during the beginning of the pandemic, with Parker Palmer and other luminous voices: Courage & Vulnerability- Corona & the Wisdom of Elders. { more }

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