Sangha of Auspicious Companions

January 15, 2022

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The Gentle Road Home

“Back before Christmas, I led a weekend retreat in California. At its close, one of the retreatants presented me with The Whole Language: The Power of Extravagant Tenderness. I happen to be an admirer of the book’s author, Gregory Boyle. Hes the founder of Homeboy Industries in Los Angeles, “the largest gang-intervention, rehabilitation, and reentry program in the world.” Extravagant. Tenderness. I’ve been reading snatches of Boyles book in hotel rooms, in airports, on bumpy flights. Last night, when I finally finished, I flipped back through the pages, reviewing lines I’d highlighted. “Make us into a cento,” they said, in chorus. So that’s exactly what I’ve done.” Phyllis Cole-Dai shares more. { read more }

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For more inspiration, check out this in-depth talk by Father Gregory Boyle. { more }

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January 14, 2022

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As We Speak: Music Video

Through music, this video serves as a rallying cry and a call to action. It is a protest song, lamenting the inequalities in education, health care, justice, human rights, and many other areas that affect the lives of Black people. “No mother should have to tell her baby that others will avoid him, judge him, hate him, just for the color of his skin. What kind of world are we living in?” It urges us all to get up, to take action, because “it’s not enough to just stand by.” { read more }

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ake some time to view and reflect on The Migration Series of paintings by Jacob Lawrence. { more }

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January 13, 2022

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Calligraphy– A Sacred Tradition

“Ann Hechle is a major figure in contemporary western calligraphy. The breadth of her subject matter reflects a personal journey which has immersed her in the sacred literatures of the world. In this interview, she gives us privileged access to her magnum opus, her ‘Journal’, in which she explores the principles of form and order — the sacred geometry — which are the well-springs of the creative process: the idea that “all things unfold out of, and are found within, unity”.” { read more }

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For more inspiration, check out, “Form and Formless Form,” an interview with calligrapher Ron Nakasone. { more }

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January 12, 2022

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Jane Hirshfield: The Fullness of Things

“The esteemed writer Jane Hirshfield has been a Zen monk and a visiting artist among neuroscientists. She has said this: ‘It’s my nature to question, to look at the opposite side. I believe that the best writing also does this… It tells us that where there is sorrow, there will be joy; where there is joy, there will be sorrow… The acknowledgement of the fully complex scope of being is why good art thrills…Acknowledging the fullness of things,’ she insists, ‘is our human task.’ And that’s the ground Krista Tippett meanders with Jane Hirshfield in this conversation: the fullness of things — through the interplay of Zen and science, poetry and ecology — in her life and writing.” { read more }

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For more inspiration, check out Jane Hirshfield’s essay, “Living By Questions.” { more }

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January 11, 2022

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Are Cats Liquid?

“A liquid is traditionally defined as a material that adapts its shape to fit a container. Yet under certain conditions, cats seem to fit this definition. This somewhat paradoxical observation emerged on the web a few years ago and joined the long list of internet memes involving our feline friends. When I first saw this question it made me laugh, and then think. I decided to reformulate it to illustrate some problems at the heart of rheology, the study of the deformations and flows of matter.” Marc-Antoine Fardin’s research on the rheology of cats won him the 2017 Ig Nobel Prize in Physics. The goal of the organization that awards these prizes is “to highlight scientific studies that first make people laugh, then think.” Read on for Fardin’s response to the question, “Are cats liquid?” { read more }

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“How do cats fit in cups and vases? Why do felines grab our attention and love? Why are their videos more popular on the Internet than dog videos? Marc Abrahams, Jean Berko Gleason and Marc-Antoine Fardin will discuss these and other cat science questions, probable and improbable, in an intriguing and hopefully humorous online discussion later this month. You can learn more here. { more }

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January 10, 2022

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Beings Seen and Unseen

“In this wide-ranging conversation, Amitav Ghosh talks about his latest book, “The Nutmeg’s Curse,” that explores our shared past, the root causes of climate change, and how climate change is intimately linked to colonialism, genocide, and structures of organized violence. He calls on storytellers to lead us in the necessary work of collective reimagining: decentering human narratives and re-centering stories of the land.”

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Read an in-depth review of ‘The Nutmeg’s Curse,’ here. { more }

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January 9, 2022

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An Early Morning Revelation: Chuck St. John

At seventy years old, St. John recounts a remarkable experience that happened in the most ordinary of circumstances when he was 28 years old. “There was this taste of knowing [my family] like characters in some story I’d read about recently, or from a movie watched last night, as if I myself had not lived the story. It had all just happened to me as if I had been in a long dream. How did I get here?” This experience became like a north star that led St. John to a life of search and connection with others with the same search for real awakening. { read more }

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How did you get here? And — who are you?
What surfaces for you as you hold these questions? Learn more about Ramana Maharishi’s approach to self-enquiry here. { more }

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